evaluation

Overall I am happy with the turn out of my mp3 player. The lead up to the final model went well but some drastic changes were made towards the end of the course which meant the entire model needed to be reconstructed digitally before the final could be made.The light experiments came in helpful when working with the acrylic and trying to get the glowing effect.  I managed to power my circuits with small 12v batteries that were strong enough make them work properly rather than having bulky 9v batteries that were quite heavy and created space issues. For the final model I printed it in separate pieces on the uprint so that it would be stable enough and not have any support meaning I could get the LED strip into a very tight place without having to break the model up any further.  The main idea i was going for was to have a detachable disk that would work similar to a flash drive and could be connected to a dock that was anywhere. the disk was also used for 'steering' the music or what ever is on the screen and would bounce back to give it a definitive single click button function. It was also supposed to move in 4 directions but I found that by adding the extra movement it eliminated its ability to rotate around the central axis so that was disappointing.  I thought that the disk idea worked well with the almost tron like song that I picked and also the idea steering the music which stemmed from the structure of the mp3 player, linking to the fact that the song is about a car chase.Overall the final model worked well and the contact switch functioned perfectly and the only thing I would do differently is print out the main base on black so that the light would focus on the acrylic screen rather than the body of the mp3 player.