Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Materials justification

Materials justification:
I choose to use aluminium because the brief says that the light must be durable, corrosion resistant, strong and light weight. Aluminium has all these properties and is easy to bend so it should be easy to construct my light frame with. It is also cheap so I will be able to stay inside the $60 budget. Acrylic is my second material. It also has all these properties because it is plastic but it isn’t strong. Luckily the acrylic plastic isn’t being used to be the bulk of my circuit. I plan for it to be the see through space where the light will emit from. I will use aluminium rivets to put my circuit together along with self tapping screws to connect the bottom plate like we did with the template circuit.

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