Project 2 : Brush Cleaner
For this project, we are to work with small circuit board and some basic I/O peripherals to solve a small "every day problem". What we decided to create is a brush cleaner, more specifically a paint brush cleaner. Having to clean my brushes during and after a painting session can get annoying when it happens everyday. With our machine, you can clean a brush while you're using a different one, or for when you're packing up to head home! We designed our brush cleaner to be used with MyLifeUNIT Artist Portable Brush Washer, but it would still work in any other container, albeit to a lesser extent. We started of this project by considering different problems that we face in our daily lives. Below are some of my sketches of designs that may solve different problems.
We decided to go with my paint brush cleaner idea, since it appears to be one of the interests our audience caught on to. There are many ideas that we came up with as a team on its implementation during the refinement phase, but most of them were not achievable once we realize that servo motors, unlike a typical motor, does not create a spinning motion we would have hoped. We however had an idea that could work regardless that Tyler came up with. These ideas that we went through are shown in the sketches below.
After settling down on and idea we are ready to put it together. Not being familiar with hardwares nor mechanics, it took our team some time to figure things out. Our results were achieved by working together as a team. As for my contributions to the team, I took part in planning, managing, and overall design of the interactions. I was also in charge of painting it, and writing the arduino script.
Here is the demo video for our brush cleaner!
The Team
Neil Chulpongsatorn
Tyler Cooper
Franchesca Purifacion
Jordan Lee