9/18/2020 TED talk response:

In the TED talk, Tom Chi talks about how he initially prototyped the Google Glass. I find that this relates to design class in that it shows how bare bones a prototype can actually be. He would draft certain concepts with household items like clothing hangers or chopsticks as proofs of concepts. This translates into our class by showing how effective prototyping is and that it doesn’t have to be the most refined thing in the world.

9/21/2020: Orthographic drawing of iPhone

Challenge Statement:

For this project, I’ll be constructing a basic and portable phone stand for my current phone that i’ve already 3-D modeled into Rhino. The product must be light-weight and portable for the use of my clients and I’ll have the resources available in the GCAD to use.

Stand Sketch:

9/30/2020: Final Design Upload

After making the rectangles to scale with the iPhone, I extruded and assembled the two pieces together I formed the legs such that they were even and balanced throughout the bottom piece and made a hole for the charging port. The back leg was arguably the most difficult part as figuring out how to cut the extrusion flush with the back, as visible toward the top of the back of the design. I just used a boolean difference and they fit fully flush.

10/2/2020: Concept Sketches for Personal Pencil Holder:

For this project, I want to make a wedge shaped hollow box with a diagonal plane going across the top face which has holes to hold pencils in. An additional feature of this design would be an identical top piece running parallel to the top itself which is at about the midpoint such that when a pencil goes in it sits still and stable.

Basic Ortho Drawing:

10/13/2020: Final Ortho.

NOTE: With time constraints I wasn’t able to get the full project together but this is some of the joinery below with how the side flaps flap up to join with the bottom front and back pieces.

10/15: Luminary Project Sketch:

Immediately, the aesthetic I wanted to incorporate into this project was to be a tribal/native american pattern design as they’ve always captivated me in their relative simplicity yet while also being so rich in detail. Some inspirational photos I took from google and translated into the larger designs of each side are as follows:

After taking each of these designs and overlaying them onto the side templates I had in Rhino as bitmaps, I traced over the lines and scaled each appropriately, as an example, here was my first slide:

This slide is meant to be the front and central piece of the entire design with the bull in the center being a big focal point of the design and a place of interest. This, the final iteration of the slide, doesn’t do justice to the process through which it was created. Being the first of the four slides I produced, it took the most tinkering and figuring out to accomplish effectively. The difference in positive/negative space was a big concern of mine and resulted in a few issues in testing where entire portions would just become negative. But after tweaking the stability and scaling of the design I was left with this which I’m rather satisfied with.

This process was repeated over the course of the next few weeks with the other designs pictured above to create these final four slides:

Much like the pencil holder, issues with the laser cutter prevented the physical manifestation of the project but with the time it took to perfect the extruded version shown below, I’m satisfied with the result myself:

11/9: Final Project

I got a rather late start on this project only having about 3-4 class periods to work on it provided a lot of constraints constructionally. My plan was to make a sort of display case which was 6in^3 in size and could have a plexiglass viewing surface on the front. There isn’t much to show Rhino wise as much of the construction was to be done post-print but here’s the very basic box design I put in place:

The reasoning behind the empty sides was to be for the customized railings that were to be put along the top profile of the side such that the plexiglass could be put in while still being able to open and close the top. The plan was to use a Dremel to cut out the ridge and also to make a slit in the bottom for the material to sit flush in. Yet once again time and the end of the term didn’t provide this opportunity. Theoretically though, the top would have either hinged off from the sides or just been removable with a little handle fabricated into the top.