SHINE
At the end of period 3, the SHiNE exhibition will take place during the interweek. Here you exhibit your SHiNE PROJECT to the public. You also show other work that you are proud of, so you keep your portfolio up to date.
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For this project I decided to go further on a different project made in Blender. For this project I used the following video as my starting and reference point. I wanted to make a simple proof of concept for the concept shown in the video.
Before starting the project
the following text is from the previous project on which this project is based on.
"For my ambition project I chose to make a concept on how to resolve the loss of energy when lighting up a bikers lane in dark envoirements. I had this idea for a longer time, I even was concidering using it for my intake interview. I had two requirements I wanted to meet during this project: learn how to animate/make things move in blender and create an elegant and most importantly realistic and working design."
for who is the the product?
this product is designed for easy installation of bike lane lighting. this product is also designed as a solution to poor met lighting demands on the open road, because of the lack of lighting on bikes or rather the lack of bike lighting that is turned on driving conditions are very dangerous. to resolve this issue i wanted to try to make something that would make bike lanes safer when connected to the road. the lighting is supposed to make bikes more visable to other road users.
I need to set a few boundaries and demands for the concept.
- it has to be pleasing to the eye
- it has to be easily repaired or removed
- installing has to be easy and fast.
by giving the transparent or translucent part of the product a frosted look light will be diffused differently resulting in a more pleasing look.
for both easy installing and repairing the product will be made out of stand alone units, these units will then operate independant from each other. this will also help with installing as nothing has to be done.
inspiration
the concept
the main idea of this concept is that there are multiple stand alone units installed into the bike lane or road. with the help of sensors on the side of the units the unit will be able to tell the difference between night and day and knows when there is someone driving by.
in the drawing below the concept is explained more visually help with the explination
for the biker to be completely visable mutliple units must be on at the same time, this would be achieved with built in timers on the microcontroller. each unit can be customizable to fit the needs of the specific road or traffic lights. the sensors are angled at a way so it will be able to tell that there is a bike moving towards it and because of that it can be activated before the bike has reached the unit, this will help illuminate the front of the bike. the mid and back part of the bike will be lit by the same unit by staying on for aset period of time, approximatly three of these units would be lit when a bike is riding over it.
proof of concept
the first idea was to use an arduino uno and a disance sensor to controll the concept unit. in the picture below the 3d model is shown as a first version of the concept. this concept was designed in fustion 360
my idea was to use 3d printing to make this concept but i later was disapointed when i found out it would take two days and a minimum of 300 grams of PLA, this would end up to much for me to continue the 3d printing part as it would cost to much time and material.
the arduino part was also scrapped when i found out mine was damaged and unusable
to make the concept in real life i finally chose to make a simple wooden box with a glass top. as light source i chose to use a cheap led ligh with inbuilt sensors. on the bottom i used alliminium foil to act as a light reflector to direct the light towards the top. under the two glass plates a piece of paper is placed too act as a difuser for the light.
