Monday, Nov 18 CW
Here is my final prototype. It is a little rough around the edges for multiple reasons. My design was not meant to be made out of wood or cardboard in real life so there were limitations on how things could flex and bend. The magnets were not as powerful as I thought they were so they cannot support the weight of the lamp on their own. I was also in a rush while prototyping and since I removed the joinery for the bases I had to use hot glue in many aspects of my projects which reduced the accuracy of the joints. Overall I am still happy with how it came out and if I were given the resources and time I definitely believe I could make this into a real lamp.
This is my final fusion design of my lamp.
Week 10
Thur, Nov 14 CW – image of work completed in class
Today in class I continued fabricating my lamp. I have mostly connected the lifts and will complete it all next class.
Thur, Nov 14 HW – image of completed homework
I couldn’t complete anything more at home but I did continue fabricating when I came into the GCAD on November 14 from 3:30 to 4:30, but I forgot to take a picture.
Tue, Nov 12 CW – image of work completed in class
Today in class I cut out the rest of the cardboard pieces in my project but it took almost an hour due to technical difficulties. I also continued fabricating.
Tue, Nov 12 HW – image of completed homework
I couldn’t complete anything for homework at home today because I have completed everything I can from home in fusion and am in the fabrication/prototyping phase of my project.
Week 9
Fri, Nov 8 CW – image of work completed in class
Today in class I began by making a wrapping for my bases that will be cut out of cardboard in fusion. I had to lay it flat on fusion and then I will bend it when I cut it out. I wasn’t able to cut out my cardboard pieces today because the laser cutters were being used so I sanded all of my wood pieces and began fabricating the lifts by putting in the magnets with epoxy.
Fri, Nov 8 HW – image of completed homework
Today for homework I prepared what I needed to cut out next class, which is mostly going to be made out of the thin cardboard. I had to show what the curved supports on the side of the lamp would look like on a flat surface in order to cut it out. I saved both files to dxf and put them in the folder I have for this project. I couldn’t do much else because I am mostly in the prototyping phase of my project. I am wondering how I should cut out the curved corners of my bases, but for now I have it set up to be cut out of wood.
Wed, Nov 6 CW – image of work completed in class
Today in class I finally got to cut out some of my wood components using the laser cutter. I took all of the DXF files from my laptop and put them on a GCAD laptop with Rhino 8. I set everything up so it would be ready to import onto the desktop but the desktop didn’t accept Rhino 8 files so I had to redo the whole process of putting the dxf files into rhino 7 on the desktop. I used two pieces of wood one 27×18 inches and one 24×17 inches. I still need to sand the pieces and cut out the cardboard parts.
Wed, Nov 6 HW – image of completed homework
Tonight for homework I finished getting rid of the joinery on the top base and I saved everything to dxf files that I could cut out of 0.21 inch thick wood hopefully in the next few classes. I still need to plan how I will cut out some other pieces of my design like the lamp shade supports.
Mon, Nov 4 CW – image of work completed in class
Today in class I redid the supports for the lamp shade because I thought they were too thin. I also jointed the whole lampshade together, and added the top. I also added joints for the lampshade on top of the top base so I will be able to take on and off the lampshade. I also simplified the exposed joinery on the sides of the bases.
Mon, Nov 4 HW – image of completed homework
Tonight I focused on scaling up my lampshade design. I made sure I scaled it up as much tall as I did wide through some simple calculations. I did make the cutouts look a little bigger on the supports but other than that I used the same process as before just scaled up a little over 50%.
Week 8
Thur, Oct 31 CW – image of work completed in class
Today In class I added the nuts for my wire housing in my lampshade. I also made all of the magnets in fusions and jointed them in the right place. I made joinery for the lampshade so I will be able to replace the lightbulb. I also hollowed out the wire housing. I made a copy of my design so I could modify it without much consequence based on Mr.Brodie’s guidance. I plan to scale up the lamp shade and thin the top base. I also plan to add mechanical looking detail to the bases so it more flows with my design.
Thur, Oct 31 HW – image of completed homework
I was finally able to make all of the joints work and the spacing of the lifts work well. I had to add a few other metal plates in some places to make the design function in real life as it is supposed to. I unfortunately have came to the conclusion that I don’t think this design will be able to move in fusion as I intend it to. I also jointed the lamp shade and bulb to the project. For our next class I would like to model the magnets in fusion and put them where they belong and I would like to add the mechanism to hold the bulb in place. The reason there is no history anymore on my fusion file is because I had to delete the history in order to make the top plate independent so I could work on it separately without it making changes to the bottom plate.
Week 7
Fri, Oct 25 CW – image of work completed in class
Today In fusion I did a lot of work jointing pieces of my design together. I was also able to split the connection between my top and bottom base plates by deleting the history and making the original piece independent. I jointed the lamp shade together aswell so I will be able to move it without it breaking.
Fri, Oct 25 HW – image of completed homework
Tonight for homework I continued to work on my new version of my design and everything is going much more smoothly. I was able to make all of the lifts and joint them without any issues. I was also able to bring over the lamp shade from my original design. Overall it is looking much better. I changed the dimensions of the lifts a little bit because of the different shape of the base. Hopefully I can ground some pieces and joint more together in class tomorrow so the piece will be able to move in fusion.
Thur, Oct 24 CW – image of work completed in class
In class today I continued to find problems with my lifts and components and joints. I tried to make a hole for the wire in the bottom base and it made on in the top base as well. There were also issues with the supporting dowels and the lifts. The new lifts continued to prove to be difficult. I ultimately decided to cut my losses with the first fusion file and make a new one with my refined parts of the first file. I began to make the base for the my second file and I filleted the base so it could be more aesthetically pleasing.
Thur, Oct 24 HW – image of completed homework
Tonight for homework I inserted the bulb into the design and I made the supports for the lamp shade portion. I also cut out a whole for the wires to go through the top plate. Unfortunately I spent the greater half of my homework time correcting mistakes I made earlier with the accordion lift portions. First of all the diameter of the middle of the accordion lift legs was wrong so I tried to correct that. Then I realized I never had the metal plates necessary for the functioning of my design in the model. I had to just redo everything from sketches to joints which was very tedious and I still have some more work to get through next class to continue fixing my mistakes.
Tue, Oct 22 CW – image of work completed in class
Today I finalized the design of my lamp shade and I continued translating it into fusion. I decided to go with a cylinder design with supports on the corners for the lamp shade. I’m confident I will still be able to continue moving it into fusion in the coming days.
Tue, Oct 22 HW – image of completed homework
Today I made some steady progress on my base for my lamp and I kept designing the lamp shade piece on paper. In fusion I continued creating the accordion lift pieces and put them together. I added some dowel pieces in so I can stabilize the structure. I sketched a more complete version of the lamp shade on the my big brown piece of paper and hope it will help me more as I continue designing.
Week 6
Fri, Oct 18 CW – image of work completed in class
Today I designed and sketched a ton more. I abandoned my lighthouse design because it clashed too much with the base so i’ve decided to create some kind of structural housing for the lightbulb on top of the accodien.
Fri, Oct 18 HW – image of completed homework
I made a few sketches for my design, but I think I will combine a few of my designs for my final design. I also made a base I can use for any design in fusion. I think I will use the design with the accordion lift along with another.
Wed, Oct 16 CW – image of work completed in class
Today in class I modeled the bulb and socket for my lamp project. I imported the jpg of the sketch of the lightbulb and used it as a canvas to draw the sketch on. I had to calibrate the canvas and had to make sure it was vertical.
Wed, Oct 16 HW – image of completed homework
Since I already read the reading for the next project there is nothing else I could do for homework.
Mon, Oct 14 CW – image of work completed in class
Although, my group had another day to finish the project, we could not get our entire rube Goldberg project to work but we set it up all the way.
Mon, Oct 14 HW – image of completed homework
Since my group and I still have a few more trials to run with our rube Goldberg machine and there is nothing more I can do for that project outside of class, we haven’t started out next project yet, I just read the Introduction to Design Thinking: Process Guide.
Week 5
Thur, Oct 10 CW – image of work completed in class
Today my group and I finally set up our full rube Goldberg machine and were able to run it and all but the very last step worked! We used a lot of makeshift contraptions along with the ones we fabricated in the GCAD. We are confident that we will be able to make it fully work during next class.
Thur, Oct 10 HW – image of completed homework
Tonight I could not complete much for homework because I do not have anything I could do outside of class to further my Rube Goldberg Project.
Tue, Oct 8 CW – image of work completed in class
Today In class I made a system to activate my gear system and I proved that many of my elements worked independently. And with a few other elements as well.
Tue, Oct 8 HW – image of completed homework
Tonight I could not complete much for homework because I do not have anything I could do outside of class to further my Rube Goldberg Project.
Week 4
Fri, Oct 4 CW – image of work completed in class
Today In class I fully set up my gear system. I added a motor system and sauderd it all together. Now in my rube Goldberg machine a ball will fall and complete the circuit and start the gear system and eventually push a ball down a ramp.
Fri, Oct 4 HW – image of completed homework
I couldn’t complete anything for homework tonight since the rest of the work needed for my Rube Goldberg project can only be finished in class.
Wed, Oct 2 CW – image of work completed in class
Today in class I pretty much completed my pulley system and the car and most of the pieces of my gear system. I used wood glue for most of it but also used hot glue when putting wheels on axels or the pulleys on the towers. I got two heavy weights to weigh down the towers, and when I set up the pulley system for what it will do in my Rube Goldberg Machine it worked.
Wed, Sept Oct 2 HW – image of completed homework
I have completed most of everything I can outside of class. All I have left to do is glue my elements together set them up and test them with my group. Although I did draw a rough sketch for how the gear system will work with a motor.
Mon, Sept 30 CW – image of work completed in class
Today In class I fabricated the rest of my elements on the laser cutter. I already had them saved in the position I would cut them out in Rhino so it was simple to cut them out but it still took about 45 minuetes. Then I had to sand all of the pieces and I had just enough time to put together one of my wooden towers. Everything looks good and all of the pieces seem to fit together well.
Mon, Sept 30 HW – image of Completed Homework
I could not do much for homework today since most of my group work from now on will be done in class. I also received all of the elements I bought on amazon and plan to bring them to class tomorrow.
Week 3
Fri, Sept 27 CW – image of work completed in class
I was out of class due to a waterpolo tournament.
Fri, Sept 27 HW – image of completed homework
There was not much I could do on Fusion for homework since my group and I are mostly in the fabrication stage and are done with designing, so I bought some of the few pre-made elements we needed off of amazon. I bought marbles which we will use in many of our incline planes. I bought some party poppers which will be used as our final objective. An I bought a few mouse traps which we will use in one of our elements to release a ball. I also copied and pasted all of my simple machines/ elements that i designed into this one fusion file so I can see what they will look like on a stair like base.
Wed, Sept 25 CW – image of work completed in class
Today In class I began cutting out the wood version of my pulley scaffolding, and I laid out all of the pieces for the gear system and car in rhino as well, so I will be able to cut it out asap.
Wed, Sept 25 HW – image of completed homework
I couldn’t do much for homework because my group and I are pretty ready to begin fabricating our parts, but I was able to edit my gear system a little bit more so it will be more stable. I also saved all of the gear pieces as dxf files so I will be able to fabricate them easily.
Mon, Sept 23 CW – image of work completed in class
Today I cut out my scaffolding in cardboard and I edited my wood pulley system.
Mon, Sept 23 HW – image of completed homework
Tonight for homework I made a gear system in fusion that I hope to employ in my Rube Goldberg Machine. I used the same techniques as I have been using and will be cutting it out in wood. I also just quickly edited my gear system by adding some extra supports.
Week 2
Thur, Sept 19 CW – image of work completed in class
Today I completed putting my cutouts together and I made my scaffolding for my pulley with cardboard dimensions.
Thur, Sept 19 HW – image of completed homework
Tonight for homework I created a cart for our Rube Goldberg project. I used the same techniques as always and I saved all of the sketches as dxf files. This is my fourth simple machine because of the wheel and axel.
Tue, Sept 17 CW – image of work completed in class
Today I cut out all of my pieces using the laser cutter and rhino 7. I also glued most of them together.
Tue, Sept 17 HW – image of completed homework
Today I designed some scaffolding towers for one of the Rube Goldberg project’s pulley systems. I used many of the techniques I used in the luminary although the design is not as sophisticated. I used the same jointing technique as always and I made sure to add a hole for a wooden down to attach to the actual pulley. I also saved all of them as dxf files so I can cut them out next class.
Week 1
Sat, Sept 14 CW – image of work completed in class
Today in class I could only put my dxf files on rhino and get them ready to print due to technical difficulties. My cutouts will fit on a 18 inch by 18 inch piece of wood.
Sat, Sept 14 HW – image of completed homework
Tonight I made a pulley system and basket. String will be attached to the basket in the holes and fed through the pulley system to a gate on the other side. When the basket fills the gate will lift. I also saved all of the pieces of the Incline Plane, Pulley System and Lever so I can laser cut them out next class.
Thur, Sept 12 CW – image of work completed in class
Today in class my team and I made a detailed plan for the entirety of out Rube Goldberg Project so we are all on the same page. Then I created a new version of the lever that is compatible with our machine and the materials available. I used the same techniques I used last night for today’s lever.
Thur, Sept 12 HW – image of completed homework
Tonight I designed one of the incline planes for my groups Rube Goldberg Machine. I used the same technique I learned last year of making multiple extrusions from one sketch for this project. I recognize that the ramp wont be flush with the ground because of the limitation of the laser cutter but for all intents and purposes it will work well. I have included a little slot in the sides where a small dowel of piece of wood can be placed to keep a ball from being released. I also created a lever for the project using most of the same techniques but I was also able to add a revolute joint to show its movement.
Tue, Sept 10 CW – image of work completed in class
Today I created a plan for my personal Rube Goldberg machine. I sketched many incline planes, a lever, a wheel and axel, wedge and a pendulum as my simple machines and would be able to use the GCAD for most of my elements in the machine.
