Final Project – Laser Cut Clock

Final Project – Clock Concept Sketches

Final Project Proposal

The problem that I decided to solve was that the clock on my living room wall broke so there is no way to know the time without looking at your phone, so I decided to make a clock to replace it. The clock’s design will be inspired by a honeycomb pattern. Some of the constraints I have are to ensure that the clock hands will fit in the clock and to make sure I have a way of hanging it on the wall. The thickness of the wood will also be important to take into account because there will be layers on my clock.

Final Luminary

Luminary – Initial Concept Sketches

What is the Fourth Industrial Revolution?: Learning Reflection
The Fourth Industrial Revolution will unite the digital, physical and biological systems. With modern technology we’ll be able to take a new look at the human mind and know ourselves in never before seen ways. In the future it will be necessary to develop a new economic model that brings a shift in values in order to place more emphasis on well-being for all humans. Using design thinking like that which we will learn in this course, our generation will be able to design a system of living that is fairer for all people. I also learned that the Fourth Industrial Revolution is about finding ways to use biological organisms to design natural products to use as building materials to replace the practice of varying material properties and creating substances like plastic, which is detrimental to our world. By changing biological functionality we can create a clean world with clean air, clean water, clean energy and, ultimately, clean living. While people will lose jobs to machines in the future, the whole idea of what work is will also have changed. Creativity should be praised rather than suppressed because creative thinking can lead to designing products that can cure diseases and change the world for the better and this design course will help me develop my creative thinking and problem solving skills so that one day I may be able to contribute my ideas and solutions to the world’s problems in a meaningful way.

Cardboard Phone Stand & Amplifier

Rapid Prototyping Google Glass by Tom Chi: Learning Reflection
Watching this TED talk gave me insight into the world of design and the process of creating prototypes for a design. Tom Chi’s decision not to use hand movements as the method of operation for the Google Glass taught me that it is possible and important to create simple prototypes for complicated designs rapidly in order to figure out if the design must be reworked before attempting to make a fully functional finished model. Furthermore, I learned that rather than just thinking about a hypothetical model when designing something, one should try to actually make something concrete so that it is easier to figure out how the design will function. This relates to the cardboard phone stand design challenge because we have to come up with a concept for how to hold up the phone in landscape view and amplify the sound and then quickly create a prototype out of simple materials like cardboard and hot glue.