Final Project – Ideate and Prototype

2/24/20 – Between class today and yesterday (2/23) I worked on developing my sketches for the dice and box. I have attached both of them down below. Unfortunately Thursday is reading day, and while I will try and come in and design the sketches on Rhino, I’m not sure if they we bee completed. The sketches that are attached below, are pretty detailed in order to give any one who sees them a good idea of the product and its relative size and functionality. I really enjoyed working on this project, as I have with every project this term, and am gutted that I wasn’t able to complete it. That said, I feel I have learned new skills from this project, such as using cirlce and ellipse tools on Rhino to design the poker chips, and mess with different lines and shaped to create the unique pattern on each chip value.

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Final Project – Ideate and Prototype

2/20/20 -Today I designed my poker chips in Rhino, and they turned out really well. I used the regulation sized chips (39mm) as the diameter for my own chips. However after showing my designs with Mr. Broadie, he felt that I could challenge myself more. That got me thinking, and then I decided that I want to design a whole game set. It will be a box that will hold the poker chips, two decks of cards, and dice. I also want to design big blind, small blind and dealer chips for my poker set. I want to learn how to design something for the 3D printer so I can 3D print my dice, hence teaching me a new skill during this project. I will run this new idea by Mr. Broadie on Monday 2/24/20 to make sure that this idea is sufficient for the project.

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Final Project – Problem Statement

2/19/20 (At home) – In a world where we are all drawn to technology leaving all of us in isolation what better way to bring about a sense of community than through a friendly game of poker! Today people sit in their rooms and play poker with each other via mobile apps such as World Series of Poker (WSOP). However a huge part of the game is being able to read peoples faces, hence the common phrase ‘poker face’, a part of the game that is completely removed in online poker. This is why I have decided to design a poker set, so people in the houses can spend a nice evening in the common rooms playing poker for fun!

Final Project – Idea Generation Process

2/18/20 – Last night I came up with the idea to do a poker set. I remember playing poker for the first time at summer camp when I was young, and really enjoyed the fact that it brought together out entire cabin. Since I still enjoy playing with my friends and family it would be really cool to have a go at designing my own poker chips. Hence today in class I created the following sketches of the chips that I will be designing. I designed 5k, 20k, 100k, 500k, and 1M value chips. On Thursday I will be creating my designs in Rhino.

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Final Project – Idea Generation Process

2/17/20 – Today was a continuation of the process I started last Thursday. Suddenly an idea struck me, to design a ring. Having thought about it, and as I started to derive a problem statement for the ring, I realized that the product could only be used by one person, and was size specific. Hence I went back to the drawing board. As I will continue to brainstorm ideas tonight I want to create a product that will be able to be used my multiple people.

New Project!

2/13/20 – Today we were given the option to either continue to develop the ‘L’ desk or start something new. After discussing with my partner Josh, we both decided we wanted to start something new in these last two weeks of the term. While we both agreed that the L desk was a very interesting idea, and that their was clearly room for improvement, especially on finding a new material since the wood didn’t work out as we had hoped, we both wanted to explore new projects individually. After making the decision I spent the rest of class surfing the internet for potential ideas.

GCAD Open House Product Creation Project – Step 3 (2.0): Ideate & Prototype

2/6/20 – This was our last day before the long weekend, so Josh and I wanted to laser cut the work we had done over the past week on Rhino. While we struggled to find enough plywood, we eventually went down to the basement of the KMSC to get a large piece of wood which we then cut with a hand saw in order to make it fit in the laser cutter. Unfortunately we still didn’t have enough to cut out all four pieces, so we could only cut out three of them.

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GCAD Open House Product Creation Project – Step 3 (2.0): Ideate & Prototype

2/3/20 – Today Josh and I modified the Rhino design that I created last class to incorporate the duck feet locking mechanism that we had previously prototyped. While the process was tedious we eventually completed the design which is shown in the screenshots below.

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GCAD Open House Product Creation Project – Step 3 (2.0): Ideate & Prototype

2/2/20 – Today I started to design the product so it could be laser cut. I used the skills that we had developed on Rhino to help me efficiently create what we had prototyped on the program. Below I have attached screenshots of my work during these class periods.

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GCAD Open House Product Creation Project – Step 3 (2.0): Ideate & Prototype

1/27/20 – Today we laser cut a mini model of our lock design. After doing extensive research to determine the best possible locking mechanism, we came across the ‘duck feet’ lock. The only downside we found about this mechanism, was that we would need to double layer the desk, which would eventually drive up the cost of the product, since we would be using double the material.

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GCAD Open House Product Creation Project – Step 3 (2.0): Ideate & Prototype

1/23/20 – While I was not in class today, Josh worked on coming up with a better folding mechanism to make the L desk more compact & portable. We felt that our previous method with the cardboard hinges was fragile and didn’t look sleek. Here is what he came up with… (Note that this is a created miniature model of what the desk will look like (Rapid Prototyping))

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GCAD Open House Product Creation Project – Step 3 (2.0): Prototype

1/21/20 – Today we worked on adding the cup holders to our design. We cut out circles from the ‘L’ desk, and used additional cardboard to make these, hence slightly adding to the amount of cardboard we use overall. While this is going to very slightly increase our price, our decision to use wood instead of metal for the support should make this inflation more or less insignificant. Down below see attached pictures from our work today.

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GCAD Open House Product Creation Project – Step 3 (2.0): Ideate & Prototype

1/16/20 – Today we continued to developed more detail sketches for out Lap Desk. We also had to think about materials we wanted to use for the support bar. Our first thought was to order aluminum bars from McMaster-CARR, however after we put in the specifications of our bar, we realized that it would cost close to $3 per bar excluding tax and shipping. We deemed this far to expensive for it would add to our cost and ultimately take from our margin. So after looking around we noticed the surplus of plywood in the classroom and after discussions with our teacher we decide it was cheaper and would provide as much support at aluminum. We then proceeded to cut it out using the laser cutter. Unfortunately we weren’t able to complete the cut due to the laser not completely cutting it out of the wood, so next class we will hand cut it out and add it to the prototype.

GCAD Open House Product Creation Project – Step 3 (2.0): Ideate & Prototype

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*ALERT* – CHANGE OF PRODUCT!!

1/13/20 – After presenting our idea of the Privacy Box to the group we have decided to change our idea. Although our idea was widely accepted due to its simplicity and humor, we were not cognizant to the Google Pixel, a cheap Virtual Reality (VR) device made out of cardboard. The fact that the market it already infuriated by a major company like Google, it would have a significant toll on our selling abilities. Now we must return to our original list of problems that we created during our Empathizing step of the design thinking process.

GCAD Open House Product Creation Project – Step 3: Ideate

1/9/20 – Attached are some of the original design sketches for ‘The Privacy Box’: our solution to the lack of privacy possessed by students at Lawrenceville

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GCAD Open House Product Creation Project – Step 2: Define (Problem Statement)

1/9/20 – In a world as busy as it is today, students everywhere are too stressed out on a daily basis. With constant demands for school as well as sports and clubs, sometimes people could use a little time for a break. Despite the best efforts of the students and those supporting them, many many of them remain stressed. People need room for themselves and though many have their own rooms, those who double up and day students don’t have anywhere truly private. The Privacy Box fixes that. The Privacy Box is a private space, anywhere you go. It allows students to relax through meditation and may include noise cancellation to prevent distractions. If the silences and darkness doesn’t suit the wearer, then they can use the phone holder attached inside to play a video of their choice to help relax. With a Privacy Box anybody can have a peaceful environment to relax.

GCAD Open House Product Creation Project – Step 1: Empathize

1/7/20 – When going about trying to come up with an idea to pursue for this extended project, we first had to empathize, which essential developing a deep understanding of the challenge. To do this we put ourselves in the shoes of the buyers. As students we wanted the product to be cheap, yet something that we would use on a near daily basis. Originally we came up with a list of challenges that we could potentially take forward into the process of clearly defining the problem, and then brainstorming ideas. The list consisted of many ideas such as a lack of privacy that students at Lawrenceville get during the day. Other ideas we had were to create more storage space for boarders, and to create a way to do work in any place on campus. Having done this we decided to continue with trying to solve the issue of privacy amongst students, as we felt that both day and boarding students faced similar issues.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution Paragraph

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is essentially us humans learning to use the technological innovations we have made in recent decades, in order to better ourselves as a species. The video teased the ideas of becoming ‘superhumans,’ and while that may seem like a stretch, it is evident that we have the ability to achieve goals of this magnitude due to the advancement of our technology. There was a section in the video where they talked about how they used a combination of 3D X-rays and small specimens to create a perfect bone replacement for someone. Along with learning how to take full advantage of the technology, the Fourth Industrial Revolution also involves being able to make the technology cost-efficient. This is important because it is one thing to make the breakthroughs and another for it to affect people’s lives. Our Technical Design class relates to this because we are learning how to use technology and think like designers. While design is usually thought of being creating something ‘beautiful’ and functional, being a design thinker forces someone to design something that doesn’t just suit them but suit the needs of the people as well as the constraints. Technical Design class is helping us become the people that lead the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and revolutionize the technological industry.

Phone Holder Final Design

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Phone Holder Concept Sketches

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Rapid Prototyping Video

From this video about the prototyping of the Google Glasses, I learned about the process of prototyping. It was eye opening to see the simplicity and roughness of the original sketches that later became a very detailed and technical product. I was fascinated that even the biggest companies in the world produce such simple design drawings for their successful products. I was also stunned by the short time it took to create the original functional prototypes. This correlates to the project we are currently working on in class, where we were tasked with designing a phone holder. I now know that in order for my sketches to be effective they don’t have to look good, they just have to be able to communicate the functionality of the phone holder.