On Tuesday, we attempted to lazer cut our box with notches out of cardboard. However, the box didn't cut all the way through the first time and didn't fit together the second time. Sadly, we realized that we would have to completely redo all the work. On Thursday, we successfully soldered one of the connection from the LED to the toggle switch. This will be the same layout we will use for all 6 colors. We decided not to connect the LEDs until our shipment arrives in case we end up being forced to use 5 colors instead of the 6 we hoped for. 

On Tuesday we had an Arduino tutorial and were unable to work on our project. Thursday Ashton and I laser cut our cardboard box  to enclose the LED lights and wires that would connect to the control panel. We realized that there were a few mistakes with this model we'd want to fix in future iterations. We didn't notch the box sides to fix perfectly into each other, so this time we just hot glued the edges. We also forgot to create an opening in the back side to allow the wiring to connect the LEDs to the toggles. We were able to hook up one LED to see how it would look in a completed circuit. 

Ashton and I sketched out our light strip and panel for above the user's door. We decided on which supplies we will use to create our project.  It will consist of 12 colored LEDs, a battery box, a resistor, a toggle switch and connecting wires. Today we made a electronic circuit similar to the ones we plan to use in the final prototype. We realized that the circuit needs to a circular connection instead of the original parallel design we started with.  Also, as we debated between a switch, button, and toggle switch; we realized that the switch included an extra option we didn't need and the button would only turn on the LED when the button was physically being pushed. Therefore, we went with the toggle switch to ensure the light would stay on until the user wanted it off. We also started to design our strip box on Rhino to see what a prototype will look like.