11/13 this is what the finished snake looks like, quite cool I think. The snake is meant to be hollow. The light is meant to be screwed in in the head to a rod that has been welded into the back of the snakes head. The mouth is made of glass/ other transparent materials which allows the light to shine through the front.
11/13 Deleted most of the pipe. I designed it to be hollow, but the rod is welded into the back of the snakes neck. The lightbulb is meant to be threaded through it and the wire can be fed through the snake till the bottom.
11/10/2022 Snake is supposed to be hollow, the plan is to insert a small rod so the light bulb can screw onto it. I spent the entire class making a pipe that would go through the snake, turns out that was unnecessary. The only actual thing that I’m keeping from class is the slit beneath the lamp for the wire.
11/7/2022 (CW) I added the lightbulb into the head. I cut out a whole using the extrusion command and then inserted the lightbulb in there. The underside is not filled so the lightbulb can be changed without deconstructing the lamp. Also made a plate for it to stand on, not sure if I’m going to use it or not. Gonna make the mouth transparent and maybe add some teeth.
NOTE:both images above are from the same class, the above reveals the exact location of the lightbulb.
11/5/2022 I also adjusted the tail length so it stretched back more, making it look nicer and less top heavy. I also widened the tail which also improved the look. Now i just need to integrate the over hanging tail or the lightbulb some other way
I’ve though about making an egg and having the cobra wrap around the egg, so the egg can act as the lamp holder/lampshade.
11/5/2022 Figured out how to make the tail lift up behind the body. It looks good at some angles and worse on others. I’m going to try and integrate it with my snake design once i can figure out how well it looks.
11/3/2022 Classwork and HW: I changed my mind once again and went back to my original design. However, I used some aspects of the design I scrapped, like the new tail shape. Also the connection between the upper body and lower body is much cleaner. This way, the snake look likes it’s about to strike instead of just sitting still. Worried about the balance and logistics of the lamp itself. I think I’m gonna make the tail curl up and move it closer to the hood to hold the lamp. Seems like the best idea so far.
I already made a draft of the tail curling it up just to see how it would look, but the app crashed while i was cutting out the design so it didn’t actually save, but it’s fine, I know how to do it now so we’re good.
11/2/2022: I made this before class on Thursday thinking it would be balanced, smoother and just look better in general. Instead it just looks less elegant and more clunky. Makes the snake looks too still, not aggressive. Also need to finalize how I’m going to integrate the lamp.
PLAN(10/30/2022): Also, I think I’m gonna redo this entire thing again, since I thought of a better way that could allow for the integration of everything to be smoother. I’ll make a complete side profile of the snake including the head. Then just extrude it out 10-15in wide. Then using other sketches I’ll shape out what I want everything to look like and just cut it.
Things to Address: I also need to make sure the lamp integration works well, either behind the snake like it’s guarding it or inside the throat, so it shines through the mouth, and the entire hood. For plan 2 the snake would have to be hollow, which I don’t know how to do.
Also, need to make sure the snake isn’t too big to fit on a desk. Also if the head/hood is way heavier or too in front of the body, then it will tip over or not be stable(top heavy). Need to fix this.
It would also be cool if the snake could turn, at least if the hood and head could rotate. That would be very cool. Need to figure out if it’s A) necessary and B) how to do it without affecting the aesthetics.
Added the fillets onto both the body and the tail so everything looks smoother. Need to figure out how to integrate the lights and everything. I think I’m gonna cut out small slits in the hood and put the light behind the snake like its guarding it. The slits would allow light to pour through the front acting like a lamp shade of sorts.(10/30/2022).
Built the tale/body with the same technique I used to make the hood and the head. I also had to remake everything since my old drawing got deleted. Connecting it to the neck/hood was kind of hard, and still looks kind of messy. I still want to edit it a bit. Just so the lines in the connecting point disappear.(10/30/2022)
I finally made something that looks pretty decent. Not sure how to integrate the light bulb in there as the fan and neck is too thin. Might have to scale everything up a bit to fit the light bulb in the snake. Aside from that I’m very very very very very happy with this design. I realized what to do. Make the side profile and extrude it out so it’s already curved, but still is a rectangle. . Then draw the desired shape with lines in another sketch inside the curved rectangle I previously made, then using the cut command with the extrusion, I trimmed out the excess of the extruded object leaving the desired hood shape. Very happy with this. The head was also very difficult but using the same technique, it worked out well. Need to make the snake hollow so I can fit the bulb in. Spent another 1.5 hours. (10/27/2022)
Scrapped what I made during class, since I thought it was bad. I tried making the hood of the cobra during class, but it looked bad and was too blocky and not elegant enough. So i made something even more blocky and less elegant. I was going for more of a rugged mechanical look, but instead it just looks like multiple lego pieces. Spent about 1.5 hrs on this, was fun and now have i better idea of what i need to make. Going to make head and hood first before worrying about the lamp. (10/27/2022)
Plan is to go with the cobra lamp. Have the lamp inside the snake and have the light shine out through the front of the snakes hood. This way the lamp is compact, adjustable, and overall not too clumsy and clunky. Will look cool and be functionally useful .Made the light bulb by importing a canvas, a sketch of the lightbulb. We then traced the bulb with lines and also the curved line command(spline). We only sketched out half of the lamp as we used revolve to create the whole 3d object. Very cool. Also finally understood why some lines change from blue to black. It happens after the face/sketch has all dimensions specified or implied. 10/26/2022 class work.This shows what it would look like hanging from the back of a car seat. The degree of rotation for the phone can be changed along with if it’s held vertically or horizontally. I think this could actually be useful. Plus it looks really cool. Definitely what I wanted. 10/21I finished my phone stand design and now it can stand both on a flat surface and hang from the back of a car seat. To display this view i grounded the hooks so i could rotate the arms which would change the location of the phone. I changed how the hooks connect to the actual phone holder. Before there was a cylinder, now it’s just 2 disks connected by a plate on top. This makes it light and allows the screws and magnets to insert properly. I really like how the design turned out 10/21I added the cylinder, but changed it to have a flat top so it can rotate and connect better with both the hooks and the rotating arms. I also added magnet holders for the other side of the rotating arm so it can connect to the cylindrical shape. This increase level of rotation in my design. I also reworked the components and sketch location of the hooks and deleted the joining arm. 10/19/2022 HW. Need to redesign the connecting arm so it can fit the screw in there. Also need to join the hooks then I’ll be done. Added hooks and decided that I’m gonna use a cylinder and add another magnet circular side to my rotating arms so the entire phone holder can shift forward and back while tilting and changing angles. I made the hooks in the same component as the case which might not have been a good idea. Also need to work out how I’m gonna connect the arms with the cylinder.10/19 in ClassPieced everything together and even soldered the wires from the switch, the lamp, and the plug together. This is so cool. Soldering is very fun. Had some trouble at first and even forgot to put on the plastic tube to cover the exposed wire, but made up for it with electric tape. So cool, everything worked great.(10/18)This day(don’t remember which day) I printed out the base verticals and the base plate. Then I used wood glue to connect it and stabilize it. Had some trouble with the laser cutter at first, but everything is great now. The fit is good, and i sanded everything down.(10/18)connected both the lamps together after adding the magnets and screws. Then I attached the LEDS with the light string securers on the back of the lower arm. This is so cool. Next I need to print out the base plate and the base verticals and also sand the base after Mr. Brodie prints it out.(10/18)Forgot to upload pictures daily, so making up for it now with images I’ve taken. Printed out both pieces a couple days ago and then assembled them using wood glue after sanding it down with the sander. This is quite cool. Using the laser cutter was quite intimidating but I’m getting better at it. Export, the import on the computer in the lab, group, align well, add reference rectangle, then print. (10/18/2022)Struggled to join the joining arm with the phone case, so instead i created a new sketch as part of the previous component and just extruded it. Also, I realized some pieces were cutting into each other which isn’t right, so i changed the extrusions and the sketch location. Finally, I added the holes where the screw can go for the magnet rotation arms. Looks quite nice right now, the vision is coming together nicely(10/19)Only made the joining arm, since last time I made a lot of stuff, so found some time and just quickly added a joining arm after figuring out how I’m gonna connect the case the the car seat. Just extrusions. Going to joint it together and add some more details before adding the hooks to connect it to the back of the car seat.(10/17)Made a lot of stuff today, spent a lot of time. Upwards of 3 hours. I connected the arms using a rectangle thats meant for the phone to rest on if it’s standing vertically. The arms similar to the ones we used in the lamp are meant to adjust the angle of display for the phone. connected with magnets etc. Need to make another small rectangular piece for the back to hold the phone better and create better structural support. nothing too complicated, just using the techniques we already learned on the lamp. 10/13Added corners into the phone case so that it can hold the phone. Not sure how I’m gonna build it so that it can also hold it vertically and have it rotate. My plan is to have it located on the back of a car seat, maybe also make it so that i can stand on it’s own as well. I’m getting quite comfortable with extrusions and offsetting. Not sure how I’m gonna be able to display this both vertically and horizontally, but I’ll figure that out. Also need some magnet like arms so it can rotate to different angles(10/10)I created 5 sketches, my favorite being the last, i like how they are pretty simple yet practical. My favorite might be four since it can hang from a bed post and most surfaces with a beam which seems pretty cool. My one worry might be that its too flat when just placed on a desk, so might make the back legs taller. Also, it is the exact same design flipped around and rotated, symmetrical both vertically and horizontally.(10/9)Redrew my reference sketch since the other one was really messy and hard to see the dimensions of everything, so i cleaned it up and made sure the fillets were clear, and the depth, width, length were all clear and legible. quite fun at first, but got boring and rushed a bit towards the end. Also this one has all the measurements, since i added some measurements in class the other day, and this includes that whereas on my previous drawing, it lacked details.(Homework 10/5/2022)This took 3 hours. I didn’t have the precise rulers we used in class so some of my measurements may be off by 0.1 or 0.01 as i forgot to measure some dimensions during class. However, i think it is the same as my drawing or dimensions labeled on my drawing. There was a lot of extruding and using the coincident constraint to align things. Also i used the filet command to round out the edges. for the card holder, i used a new command we haven’t used before, the one that can draw curved lines which helped outline my cardholder. Overall very happy with it. I think it looks pretty good. Also, in class i redid my design, since i realized it wasn’t smart starting from the side, so i built a rectangle, which was the case, then used extrusions to make the actual phone screen along with the phone case, camera and cars.The sketch after i extruded it out, the sketch is in the picture below. In hindsight i probably should have made the card holder a separate component. Will try to figure that out later. However, looks pretty accurate right now.Sketch of a side of my phone case. Created it with the rectangle command and used other lines to add on my card holder. Used the fillet command to round out the edges of my phone case. Adding in the button holes was accomplished by setting a construction with in the middle of the phone case using the coincident constraint and then building a rectangle in it. I then made circles and used the dimension constraint to move them accordingly. Finally, i trimmed off the construction lines to leave the rounded rectangular/oval shape. built the small arms attaching base plate to the led lamp. added screws, created the small attachment arm by crating circle and recntangle ADD MORE DESCRIPTION LATEr THIS IS A SCREEN SHOT OF THE VIDEO WE WATCHED, NOT MY SCREEN. In class we projected the 2d view of our upper arm onto a new sketch under that component and exported it as a dxf file into a folder we made on the desktop. Then we repeated this process with the upper horizontal piece. We spent the rest of class watching Mr. Brodie demonstrate Rhino and how to use the laser cutter. Class ended by printing the pieces for the upper arm. FOR HOMEWORK, the videos we needed to watch was already covered in class, so nothing extra to do.9/20/2022Made the base plate with the thickness of the plywood. I used the off set command to make guiding lines to make the small ridges in the inner circle. then i trimmed the lines away using the trim command leaving only the ridges. had some issues with the trim command not being precise enough so had to do it a couple of times. looks nice. CLASSWORK 9/15/2022. Projected the length of the lower arm out to make the horizontal piece in the middle. had some trouble with the projection not being on the arm, so used align to get it to the outside and touching the outer edge of the arm. Then i used extrude to object to create the piece and shaped it by using the combine and cut command. Then i made the square and circular holes in the middle piece of the lower arm using the rectangular pattern tool to create the squares. Had some trouble so had to redo/problem solve a couple of times.HOMEWORK 9/15/2022extruded out the lower arm and then copy and pasted that into the LED LAMP ASSEMBLE component. Then I attached that to my upper arm using the joint revolute command. I set the angle to 105 and -105. I already joint the upper metal discs before so i just skipped that step. Everything looks good.Made a side of the lower arm. made 2 circles then connected them with tow lines and aligned the lines using the tangent command. then cut out the rectangles using the rectangular pattern tool after moving a rectangle into the arm via coincidence command. Then drew a circle and made holes in the larger circle using the circular pattern command. After that, finished sketch. I already made the metal discs during class.(HOMEWORK 9/13/2022)Used circle making tool to make 2 discs, then extruded them out on separate components. Joint them using the join command. Also used the joint as built command to join the middle of the two side arms together to ensure they don’t move. Join as built command just joins the two components they way they look in the design currently.Created a rectangle and extruded it out to connect both sides. it fills out the middle and the holes. Finished the upper arm. Also downloaded pieces from the internet which we will use later.In class we extruded the original arm to make it 3d and added holes to it by using the rectangular and circle pattern. For Homework using copy and paste we created 2 arms and then moved them apart using the join method. used inspect, measure to check if it was right(HOMEWORK 9/7/2022)Finished making part of the arm, used tangent to align the lines and created 2 circles and 1 smaller circle within the circle. HOMEWORK(9/6/2022)Missed out on making the cube, because I had to restart once, so my box is a rectangle. CLASSWORK(9/5/2022)
