Update 17: Creative Title #4

Source: My phone

I finished a week early so I really don't have much to talk about. I decided to mimic someone I heard earlier who took a photo of their dog for a photo, so here is my bulldog Lucy. Uh..... I guess I've already sorta figured out the presentation aesthetic, which is cool. I also realized that I did have my my life packet on Monday it was just in a weird spot, so oops. That's really it, unless you want me to talk about Avengers lol(cause that was super hype). I wish I had more to put here but everything I said last week I expected to put in this week. The end?

Update 16: Form over Function?

Source: My floor and horrible lighting in my house for photos

During break my grandpa and I worked on and finished a show model. This does not work whatsoever, but it shows what a working version that could actually be sold and used would look like. It kinda looks like a small iPhone lol. The panel is longer and thinner to fit an arm better, but is the same area (I hope anyway, I spent a while measuring it). It even has a 3D power button on the side that's actually just a screw. In the presentation, I will use this along side the working yet ugly and unwearable version

Update 15: Eureka!

Source: My phone

We did it reddit. It functions. It's smaller. And it functions fairly competently too. I think that I am going to have this model stay the same, as sort of a "function" model, and create another model that is just for show, the "form" model that will be used along side this for the presentation. This is the plan elusively because the battery is still too big, and while I can likely fix this, the cost and effort wouldn't really be worth it. But yeah, it finally works, yippee!

Update 14: New Stuff

Credit: Google
This week, I mainly got supplies so that the second attempt is hopefully the last one. I bought another copy of the last pack I used because it was the cheapest, easy to dismantle, and has a useful circuit board which should make my life 10x easier. The more important addition was these small solar panels. They are already small so I don't have to worry about cutting them, and they deal with the proper amount of voltage. Also good news, it came in a set of a lot so I can have multiple attempts without getting more

Update 13: First Times an Almost Charm

Source: My iPhone Camera

So I finally got to attempt the whole shrinking a solar panel and having it still work thing and BOY was I close. I first disassembled the charger pack with relative ease, and disconnected the solar panel from the circuit board and the battery. I then sliced the sides of the panel off that were not attached to any wireing, and it seemed to be working at full power still. When I cut down the middle and into wires, it got hairy. Even though I reattached the two ends of the circuit and it should have worked, the panel was much weaker which makes sense. The issue is when I reintegrated the panel into the whole setup, it seems to not charge the battery as the green indicator light wont turn on. I won't know for sure, as I have to drain the battery first(as it already had charge when it was delivered) so I don't know 100% if it worked yet, but I kinda doubt it. Good news is, this is just one iteration of likely a few, and I know what generally works and doesn't. I will likely need to get a different pack for the second attempt so stay tuned for that.

Update 12: Party!!!!

Source: Google Images

I finally did it. I got the supplies. I went to Diddams and bought like 24 wristbands for like $6. Then I ordered the solar charger pack I am going to modify off Amazon, but it hasn't arrived yet. I plan to start modding the solar pack this weekend, which hopefully won't take longer than two weekends. Then I can just put the arm/wrist attachments on and hopefully the prototype(?) should be done before April.

Update 11: No more puns, time to hit the grind

Source:Google

That emoji represents me right now with the project. I'm not suuuuper worried, I just hope it all works ya know? I have everything planned out finally, and I hope to go buy everything sometime this week(the real question is will it ship fast enough lol). Im just now in the "please work out otherwise I need to explain why it did not work" phase. Yay. Uhhhh that's about it honestly. The update should be a lot more interesting next week.