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My project is a sculpture of a rain cloud that drops raindrops and lights up. I made this project to try to convey the feelings of calmness and happiness that my client, Theo, had when he was on a camping trip, and it started raining, and everyone went into a tent. It works using a servo motor and Arduino, which opens up a hatch on the bottom of the cloud to drop raindrops when you turn a dial, as well as having a led strip for light that also attaches to the Arduino and dial, which is all mounted to a laser cut frame and covered in cloud-like tissue paper. It also has a cover for the electronics on the base, and a mini tent that the raindrops fall on. It makes people feel happy and calm because the light looks cool when diffused through the tissue paper, and it is satisfying how the lights and servo both turn on in sync with the dial.

During this studio, I grew at expressing my project, engaging, coding, and digital fabrication. I grew at digital fabrication when I made a CAD file for my project in Rhino, and when I kept making changes when I realized there were problems with it. I grew at coding when I had to combine the servo code and the LED code, and also when I wrote some custom code to change brightness of the LEDs instead of the number of LEDs lit up. I grew at engaging and persisting because for this studio, we had to work with a client to design an electronic version of their project. Because of this, I learned more about how to design something for someone else. I improved at expressing my project because my presentation was a lot better this studio. I did not talk that fast during this presentation and also I think I explained my project clearly.