6/3/21
Finished Project
Today, I was able to completely finish my lamp. Since last post what I did was add a circular base type thing right below the lamp shade to make it more secure to the base. So I laser cut that and glued it together. Then, today I took the wire and laced it into the lamp and connected the wires to the lightbulb holder. I’m still missing a lightbulb because we didn’t have any left, but today being the last day I did officially complete my lamp. I’ll be bringing it home tonight. I’m super excited about the way it came and it is pretty exact to what I was imagining. Here is the final result compared to the original idea sketch:
5/29/21
Almost Done
Before this class all that needed to be done for me was the lamp shade printing. I had a successful base and a finished design. When I got to class today Mr.Brody had already printed the design!! After further consideration we decided it be best if I added another secure factor to connect the square base to the circle lamp shade. Today I worked in rhino to make that and I plan to print it first thing next class and then finishing building it then as well.
5/25/21
Building the Lamp Base
Today I took all the pieces that we printed out last class and glued them together. It wasn’t that difficult, but it did take some time. It was hard to kind of hold all the pieces together and try to make sure they were aligned while gluing, but I had it under control. Then the piece that wraps around the bottom of the base was slightly bigger than expected so I had to make a couple cuts, and it went flawlessly. We even tested it by putting the base of the light bulb in the top and it works perfectly.
5/20/21
In-class Lamp work
So the 3-D printing of the lamp shade failed. It barely even made it past two hours before we had to quit the printing process. It was filling in the middle which is not something we want, because it is supposed to be hollow in the middle. I decided to stop working on the lamp shade for now, and transition to the base and stand which will be laser cut with card board and glued together. Today we put all the pieces in Rhino, and although it took a couple tries because we forgot the parts at the top that needed to be slightly lower than the rest of the wall, we did print them successfully. It took some time, like pretty much all of consult, but now I have all 7 parts of my lamp shade base and stand.
5/18/21
Lamp Update
Today during class we tried to 3D-print my lampshade. We worked on putting it in the rhino application and trying to print. We aren’t sure if it’s gonna work because according to Mr.Brody the printer has a 90% chance of failing. Also, we couldn’t add support material because then it would completely screw up the design so we aren’t sure it’s gonna work. It’s printing now, and it’s scheduled to take 37 hours. I checked on it after one hour and it was still printing away, so far so good.
5/17/21
Lamp homework
Honestly, I’m feeling pretty good about my lamp. I think my design is done, I mean it’s pretty much exactly the way I wanted it. Tonight I sketched a second option for the lamp shade that I think I like a bit more. It’s the exact same concept and pretty much design it’s just a bit rounder and has less cross sections. Either one would work with me. Tomorrow during class I plan to talk to Mr.Brody about next steps or parts of my design that need more work other than that I’m feeling pretty solid.
5/15/21
Lamp Classwork
Today was a big day in my lamp designing process. I completed the whole lamp shade just in the time I was sitting here. It took about 40 minutes but it is complete. Then I worked to put the lamp stand, modeled light bulb, and new lamp shade all on one design to see if it would fit. It really wasn’t that hard to make the lamp shade it just took a lot of steps, and a while. After I finished, and I put it on my stand model, I realized that my scale was way off for the size of the lamp shade. I had to scale it down a whole 1/3 in size. But now the design looks pretty solid. It’s not exactly what I imagined, but I think it’s pretty cool.
5/14/21
LAMP HOMEWORK
Last class we had a little issue with the lamp shade design I had in mind. I wanted to make this cool sphere shape, but this fusion version doesn’t have the longitude and latitude lines I needed. I needed the lines because I wanted to cut little holes out of the sphere so the light would shine out in cool ways. So tonight I spent a while looking round for inspiration for lamp shade designs that I could make on this version of fusion. Then I went into my own design and tried to check that I would actually be able to do it in this fusion version. Below on the left is my own goal…the shade that is no longer feasible. And on the right is my new goal. Although it will 100% be much harder than the first idea, I think it will be worth it in the end.
5/13/21
LAMP CLASSWORK
Today I finished the base and stand. I didn’t realize that it was gonna be a problem that all four of my walls were put together separately. So what we did is we remade the stand with the same dimensions, but as a rectangular prism with a hole in it. This confirmed that the stand of the lamp would all be one piece. After that I also made arms off the side of the stand for the lamp shade to sit on. I also made a cap for the stand with a little hole in the middle instead of the ring I had. This way, I now have a place for the lightbulb to screw in to. Before I was just gonna like place it, but now it’s gonna be able to like screw into the base and have one put together lamp base.
5/10/21
Lamp Fusion Design Night 2
Tonight I worked on the ring shape that is gonna hold my lightbulb. It actually took me a really long time to perfect how I wanted it to be placed. I wanted it to be a ring a little smaller in diameter than the lightbulbs bottom, so the bulb can sit right on top, and then there are two rods that will go to the sides of the stand to support the ring. I had trouble because I didn’t realize I had to extrude each piece a very small amount to make them go from sketches to actual things. I’m still a little concerned as well on whether or not I made them another component. I also tried to join the stand and the ring as one but I’m not sure it worked. Here is what I got:
5/5/21
LAMP FUSION DESIGN
Tonight for homework I worked on getting a good base of my fusion design done. First, I created the base of my lamp design which is a circular base that has a hole in the top and one in the side which will be for my plug to enter and leave from the light bulb. From there, I made four 8-inch tall posts surrounding the center circle, these are gonna be the arm/stand of my design. That’s all I got to for today, it was difficult creating each rectangle to the perfect dimension, and then extruding them all. Next, I’m gonna make a type of holder where the light bulb will sit. This design will be followed by the creation of my lamp shade.
5/3/21
Lamp Shade Sketches
4/30/21
The problem I am addressing is not really the lack of light, but more the lack of decoration, and the need for a duller light. You see, the overhead light in my room is super bright and is annoying when just hanging out in my room. Normally, I turn the main light off, and just leave on a lamp on my desk table, but that doesn’t seem to provide enough light. With the lamp that has a cool outer design, not only will it light the whole room, but it will be duller than the light I already have in my room. Also, the cool design for the shade will provide a cool design to my room for when I’m just sitting there watching tv or hanging out. This isn’t a light that is meant to be on when one is trying to focus or do homework, instead it is something that will provide a duller force, yet still light up the whole room in a fun, non intense way, during casual moments.
4/29/21
Lamp Shade Designs
I came up with a couple different designs. 2 of them use an arm and have the light pointing down toward a desk or something like that. The problem with these designs is that it might be hard to create the joints for the arms or stabilize it and I’m not really sure how I would design those things. Then I have one jut basic lamp design with a simple base, and center coming up to hold the light. This one could be finished with either a real lamp shade, or it could be a bit taller and used to light a room without a shade. Finally my last design which might be my favorite starts with a simple straight up base and like pole coming up lamp design, but it has a different type of shade. This would be one I digitally fabricate to surround the lightbulb, but it will have a cool design made out of whole in the shade around it so the light goes in all different directions and makes shapes in the room. My inspiration for this deign will be one of the pictures below, and so will my 4 sketches.
4/27/21
Fourth industrial Revolution: I found this video very interesting, especially the idea that design is the humans first signal of doing something with a purpose. One thing I found really interesting is the way that design is kind of used as a way of creating new things built off previous models, but that can be better and more helpful for the community and environment. To simplify it, I almost understood it as; yes we have cars, but using design we can make a different design for cars that will make them emit less fuels and be better for the user as well. What I also found as super cool is the way that digital design can be used to find out more about the body, and can be used for real medical understanding. I think this relates to our class because we are trying to create designs that can make our everyday life easier, such as with the computer and phone stands.
4/22/21
Today we created the fusion model of our cellphone stands, and I have to admit it went pretty flawlessly for me. I started with this really simple design I sketched last night which really only had one little component that I had to extrude and it was done. I finished the whole project in 20 minutes. Obviously that wouldn’t do so I decide to try another one of my designs that still wasn’t too complicated but had a couple more components. This design featured a base with a little carving in it for the phone to sit, and a stick coming up from the back to support it. Obviously I can’t be sure if this design will work, but I inserted my phone design from last class to see if at least the dimensions were correct, and it worked in that way. The only concern is if the circular stick could hold up and support the back of my phone, but other than that it seems like a pretty simple design.
4/21/21
Here are my phone stand drawings, I think the drawing part went pretty smooth, but I’m not sure anyone else can tell what I’m drawing. I can tell exactly what I was going for but I’m not sure how clear it would be to an outside viewer. I’m defiently not the best drawer in any way shape or form so that defiently has a part in my unclear drawings.
4/20/21
For the phone holder design, I decided to make it as simple as possible. I was worried that the more pieces I added the more likely it wouldn’t be able to stand up, or the dimensions would be off. I went with a simple back board design that had two triangular stands coming out. I also drew inspiration from our computer holders, and used the design part that has a little lip at the bottom. Although I struggled with the use of the exacto-knife which made all my edges pretty shaky, it stands up perfectly fine and can defiently be used. I wanted my phone to be at about a 135 degree angle with the bottom, and I was a little worried about tryig to create that but it was defiently close enough. My stand is both successful, and was quick and efficient to build.
4/18/21
The “Rapid Prototyping Google Glass” video had a lot of similar aspect to what we are working on. The main thing I learned is that scientists and engineers who create these crazy inventions don’t just wake up one day and come up with some insane plexi-glass magical invention with all these crazy working parts and materials. Instead these inventions kind of stem from a small idea or simple materials that they can use to model what they eventually want to happen. This kind of reminded me of the sketches we are creating in two ways. For one, the drawings we create are so simple that it seems almost impossible that through a few buttons they turn into the large structures we end up making. Also, he was using these super simple materials to make complex things, and it reminded me of how we use simple lines and circles and arcs to make complex designs and useful materials. The main thing I learned in it all is that complex inventions and designs all stem from such simple things.
4/15/21
I also started my design on fusion for the phone model, so far its looking pretty good and doesn’t seem like it will be too difficult. I started with a simple rectangle for the base and I filleted all the corners. Then I made the top dimensions for where the front facing camera is. I also extruded the whole thing the width of the phone and extruded the top speaker slightly less because on the real phone its slightly lower than the top face of the phone. Here is the day one progress:
Phone Orthographic Drawing:
I just completed my phone drawing which was pretty simple. I made sure to take and note every single possible measure down to a t. It was a bit difficult the smaller the increments, for example at one point one of the diameters I measured was 0.1cm across. Other than these very small measurements the drawing itself was pretty simple and seems like it will help with the design.
4/11/21
Mad #7
This was easily 100% my best and most successful project. I’m not gonna lie, it may have been much simpler and quicker than the other exercises, but I still feel pretty great about the success. I didn’t hit any roadblocks, and didn’t even have to fight with any blue lines to turn them black. Everything was defined on the first try, and I did not even need the video for help. Overall, it went very well, and I even learned about a few new commands we haven’t used yet during this project.
4/9/21 –
MAD #2
Quick Mad #2 update. I figured it out! After many, many, way too many hours working on this project I finally did it. I had problems with projection, then the holes, and then the animation, but finally got it perfect. At one point I even realized that I had forgot to make a new component for my slider, and I had to redo the second component all over again, because if I didn’t, it wouldn’t have been able to move. I sat on the bus to the softball game for the past HOUR, but I finally mastered all the components of the design.
This exercise was a complete failure for me. I started it around 9:30 and by 11:15, I had still yet to accomplish a successful version of component 1. I truly have no idea what the problem is. In some of my drawings the blue lines just refuse to turn black even in the very early steps when the guy in the video has black lines. I couldn’t even get the first rectangle to change and there were barely any available places for dimensions. The one version that I thought I finally succeeded at creating the base component, I couldn’t figure out how to project on to the next component. I tried three separate attempts and I couldn’t figure it out in any of them. After almost two hours I decided to call it quits and come back with a fresh mind over the weekend. I honestly have not idea what the problem is.
4/7/21 –
Bottle Opener 3
A similar issue happened with bottle opener 3, which was very very hard for me. The design itself wasn’t that hard to create, but trying to get the dimensions and find a set point in order to solidify the black lines was very hard. For a bit under an hour I tried everything I could think of to try and get the lines to turn black. In the end, the frustration got the best of me and I will not lie…I quit. The following image is the best I could get using dimension lines and as many constraints as I could try and fit. Hoping for better results on the next projects:
Bottle Opener 4
Bottle opener 4 was the hardest project to date we have ever worked on. At first I made my own lines and dimensions and I thought I was doing great, but by the end I realized this was not the case. Although I got the general shape right, none of my lines were constrained. I could move all of them with my mouse and I think that was the problem. I never set a start point or something that wouldn’t move, and that’s why I think the design didn’t work. In the end, I was able to solidify all the black lines, but I was never able to actually figure out how to get the shape to fill in and extrude.
4/5/21 – Bottle Opener 6
My first attempt to create bottle opener 5’s sketch was a disappointment. I worked very hard on it, and felt confident throughout. The problem occurred in one of the final steps when suddenly my whole design was blue. Although I thought I completely mastered the design, the blue lines told a different story. Here was my first attempt’s final look:
My second attempt came out not only much better, but completely successful! After some meticulous designing, I found where some of my problems occurred. One major issue was that I wasn’t mirroring all parts of the first half, I was skipping the dimensions and some of these little black dots, that I’m honestly not sure what they are for. My second issue came with the tangent circle. For some reason, the dimensions I was trying to constrain couldn’t fit, but I finally figured out what the diameter had to be and was able to easily mirror both sides. Finally, only half of my design was coming out shaded blue, and I couldn’t figure out why. I then found a very small section of the back end of my bottle opener that wasn’t connected all the way around, since there was a whole I wan’t able to enclose the whole thing. With a quick fix, I finally mastered the perfect design:
The progress… Final sketch… Final product.
First Day Image – 4/1/21
