3D-Printed Smart Lamp Workshop

This work describes a student-driven workshop centered on designing and building smart lamps using inexpensive Makerbot Replicator 2 3D printers and Cypress Semiconductor’s CY8CKIT-42xx PSoC 4 Prototyping Kits. The main objective of the workshop, to improve the engineering students’ design skills and attitudes towards independent designs via exposures to modern technologies like 3D printing and PSoC (Programmable System-on-Chip) programming, was achieved. The following workshop students’ outcomes: (1) an ability to successfully design and 3D-print an object that is a part of an assembly; (2) an ability to successfully wire/solder LEDs and sensors to a PSoC, and (3) an ability to successfully program a PSoC as demonstrated by creating a smart lamp were also met as substantiated by preand post-tests, attitude questionnaires, and informal short interviews with participating students.