Wooden Box Project

What am I trying to solve?

For my club, I have a lot of different smaller beads and jewelry pieces, and we do not have a way to organize these beads, so with this project I want to make a box with internal compartments that can be transported around easily, and can store the different smaller beads that we own

Constraints: Time, Space, and Material

Changes to my design: While I was originally going to stick to this plan, as a way to use all the space in the design, I changed the way that my drawers were going to be formatted. This also improved some of the aesthetics of the project. Along with this, I found out the heights I wanted for the project, so the new image is attached as below:

Updated concept sketches of my design project

As of now, I have printed out the pieces for my wooden box design project, and I started to dry fit the pieces together. Next, I am going to start putting on wood stain on the pieces. Finally, I will begin to 3D print a handle for the drawers and for the lid of the box.

Me staining the wood in order to make it a darker color.

Going on next term, things that I needed to add in order to finish the project are handles, which I plan to 3-d Print. Also I plan to create a lid that opens and closes through the use of a piano hinge. In addition, in order to make the piano open and close I need to add an edge around the top so that the hinge will not go through the material which is only .21 centimeters thick. 

Desk Organizer Project

I am almost done dry assembling the desk organizer, but as I assembled it, I realized there was a very specific order to which I needed to assemble it in. Next class I will work on putting together the drawers, then actually gluing the parts in place.

As of now I am starting to laser cut the project into the wood.In total I used 5 sheets of wood to cut the project, and after I finish cutting out the wood I will begin to assemble the desk organizer with wood and wood glue. Attached below are pictures of me cutting out the pieces of my desk organizer out:

Progress- As of now I am almost done my online 3D model of the design using Rhino, however I now need to work on creating the drawers for the overall design. Here are pictures attached below:

Updated pictures of the cardboard prototype

Step Four: Test

Solicit feedback about the prototype you have created from your user

Some feedback that I received was to try to make the area between the book holder and the shelves flow more or to maybe combine them to improve aesthetics. Another suggestion that I got was to maybe round the corner to improve design. Things that the person liked was how it met all concerns of holding objects and it was not to large.

Step Three: Idea

 –Brainstorm and generate ideas.

in order to reach all their goals for this project I decided it would be smart to have drawers in order to hold pencils and other items. Also it would be important to make room to hold the tinier books as well so I added tinier sections for these books. As the pictures show below..

Step Two: Define

–Define the right problem and the constraints.

Constraints: Time, Material, Space

Step One: Empathize  

–Understand your clients needs and the context of your design challenge.

For the desk organizer project, I learned that my person need something to hold their books and their pencils, without taking up a too big portion of their desk.

Interview-

M: Are you a generally organized person?

T:No I am usually cluttered

M:What are you looking for in a desk organizer

T: Something to hold my books, smaller books, pencils, and other papers and items left on my desk

M: Is there any size desk organizer you are looking for

T: Just nothing that is to wide, because I still need space for other items on my desk

Fourth Industrial Revolution Video

From the video, I learned how technology has advanced throughout our years, and design has allowed for prototypes of these items to be produced and shared throughout the world. This relates to how change is happening in terms of technology and it continues to happen.

Sketches of the speaker prototype

Prototyping Video

I learned from the video that there are several rules involved in creating a prototype, the first being find the quickest way to have the experience you desire. Most importantly asking how you would prototype this item? or how long would it take to create this prototype? While all of these are important questions, creating and crafting is better than overthinking the project. In essence creating the project begs to ask many questions, for example, what would be the general shape and size of the prototype? This question leads to the final rule; use materials that help the prototype and the rate of learning. In all showing the multiple steps needed in order to prototype.