Friday, November 15
Signatures are taking a long time to put into the program. I only have 5 so far, and I have to make them all separate layers so that the laser cutting program doesn’t crash.
Tuesday, November 12
TESIA’S DESKTOP ORGANIZER IS FINISHED
The plan now is that she wants to paint it so that it goes with the colors in her room.
The engraving does work, I just now have to trace them all into the program, which I don’t think I will be able to do in time.
Monday, November 11
Sunday, November 10
Tuesday, November 5
I have decided that I will make the Stanley Crest and engrave the names of the people in Stan into the design.
Currently enlarged – now 18 in by 16 in with 3 inch ends; fits 47 names
Tuesday, October 29
Final Project Proposal
For my final project, I would either like to make a tripod for my phone that will hold it about four feet in the air, or I would like to make a decorative piece by which to remember this year in Stanley.
For the Stanley decorative piece, the only problem is that my room is very plain and it needs something fun. This isn’t a huge problem and there aren’t many constraints except space, and that still isn’t a big problem. The reason that I would make it is because I want to remember the people in the house even after I’ve left, and I feel like this is the best way to do it.
Monday, October 21
Tesia and I have concluded that the back panel of this shelf will be made of cork board because aesthetics are very important to her and she would like to be able to put pictures on something in front of her. We are still having trouble with the knockdown joinery for the side pieces, but she likes the idea of the rotating and locking joint for the shelf. We have some ideas for how the joinery will play out, but I must first try to create it with cardboard to ensure its efficiency.
I ordered the cork board, but it is 24 in by 36 in, so I will have to cut off 4 inches from the top of the sheet.
I didn’t account for the problems that would come from gluing two pieces of wood together. The final piece is slightly thicker than it should be, and it won’t fit in the slots that I made perfectly. I had to file down the slots to make room for the slight error in gluing.
I think a shelf would be the most effective means of helping Tesia organize her desk, but I am having some issues with how I would implement the ideas I have. As one of my constraints, Tesia decided she wanted knock-down joinery to connect the different sections of her shelf in order to take it apart more easily, so I had to figure out how to connect the two pieces of my top shelf. My first idea was a finger joint as shown below with a separate piece to secure the two parts, but I ran into some issues with how secure it would really be. In a perfect world, the securing piece’s raised parts would be longer and able to rotate in order to lock the piece into place once it went through the holes.
Concept Sketches
Define Mode: Define the problem and all constraints
September 20, 2019
Problem: Not enough space on her desk; requires a place to put books and pencils in a convenient place
Constraints: Desk Size; Thickness of Material; Time; Knock-down Joinery
Empathize Mode: Understand your client’s needs and the context of your challenge.
September 17, 2019
What Problems Do You Face With Organization?
- Wants more space on desk surface
- Inconvenient to put books in drawers
- Currently putting them on windowsill and wants to use that space for something else
- Loses pencils in mess constantly
- Books take too much space on desk
This video about the Fourth Industrial Revolution taught me a lot about our society’s priorities and the way in which our world is headed. Today’s technology is centered around things being personalized to the user and being very aesthetically pleasing. We are trying to make robots and AI do things that humans cannot in ways that humans would in order to make life easier and the robots more user-friendly. Relating this to our design class, it is our job to design and build the things that we think will make the world better for ourselves and others.
Original Sketches
This video helped me realize how important it is to get ideas prototyped quickly, no matter how effective, to make the concept a reality. There is, of course, no way to quickly make a complete final product, but making a moderately accurate physical representation of a concept is crucial to the design process. It helps designers ensure that an idea is genuinely worth implementing in the real world and that it is a practical solution to whatever problem it was made to solve. Think outside the box and use everything at your disposal.
Rules of Prototyping
For the tripod, the problem is that I need a way to film myself with my phone while I am unable to use my hands. It needs to be storeable in a way that will not take up too much space in my bag but is still relatively easy to set up. I am trying to make it collapsible, and I have already found some designs that would probably work, and they are all 3D printable.
- Find the quickest path to experience.
- Doing is the best kind of thinking.
- Use materials that move at the speed of thought to maximize your rate of learning.
