Being Recourceful

            As posted earlier, our team decided to move away from using the bottle in our design because the water ended up actually making the quality of light less strong. Although this gave us a bit more freedom as to not worry about the LEDs getting wet from the water, we had to go through another process of brainstorming to think up a design as simple and clever as a water bottle. The genius of the Luz en Litro is that it doesn't require any special materials, just a water bottle. We did our best job to put our heads together and think of objects that could easily be discarded or recycled.

Here are some pictures of our brainstorming ideas!

We thought of the inside of a chip bag as being very reflective and shiny, and using the bottle still for the frame work of the light. Also we considered using Styrofoam if that happened to be readily available, possible shiny white plastic silverware, and possibly the white inside of bottle wrappers, since the D Light uses white opposed to the shiny silver to reflect the light, we are considering using white as a good alternative. A prototype of using the bottle for the frame work and the chip pack is exhibited below along with a Styrofoam model. Both models produced similar light quality; however, more tests need to be done to compare them more closely. Here are some pictures of our prototyping process with recyclable materials:


 

 

Now the Styrofoam model: