Boje Lamp

Boje

Boje is the graduation project of the Industrial Designer Marcela Gonzales. I got the pleasure to work on the electronic design for this installation. Boje is a street lamp that uses pipes as a percussion instrument and emits rays of random colors if the instrument is vibrating.

Electronics
Electronics

Electronic Design

The design and components were designed after consulting with Marcela.

Initial Sketch
Initial Sketch
Feature List
Feature List

For this project, we used several pressure sensors and high power RGB LEDs. For the control, we used an ATmega16 programmed using C. Everything had to fit inside a pipe, so we settled on a custom shaped PCB. The PCB was designed using Eagle.

PCB Design
PCB Design
PCB Manufacturing
PCB Manufacturing

After assembly, the internals fitted like a glove!

Assembly
Assembly
Working Version
Working Version

Eiji Onchi
Eiji Onchi
Space Production Engineer
PhD. in Kansei Science

Kansei designer and Mechatronic engineer, learning something new everyday.

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