Bike Challenge

1) Problem- We are looking for ways to make a bike easier to put in a house and create living space !



2) Brain Storm
       
             - Hooks on wall/ceiling
             -Sucktion cup
             -Hook on door                
             - Sliding mechanism


3) Critera and Costraints

            -No Permanet damage to place of living
            - Easy assemble and storage


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5)

Multiview drawing:

4 Quadrant design

Design Process

Identify the Problem

• The lockers at school are always a mess and students never seem to find anything, need to come up with something to organize it

Brainstorm Solutions

• pencil compartment, holders for paper and notebooks\
• 10.5x12x17.5

Criteria and Constraints

• Organize objects that you would use every day
• Design must fit in your locker
• Can not be flammable
• Hold twenty lbs. of books
• easy to install

1. “From the buildings in which we live and work, to the cars we drive, or the knives and forks with which we eat, everything we use was designed to create some sort of marriage between _________________ and _________________.”

    First Blank - form
    Second Blank - function


2. The folks at IDEO state that they are not experts in any given area. But, they do claim to be experts on the ____________________, which they apply to the innovation of consumer products.

   - "They are experts on the process to design stuff"

3. After the team of designers is brought together, told the problem, and informed they have five days to “pull it off,” what phase of the design process do they immediately engage in?

   - The team then splits into groups to brainstorm ideas


4. Give two examples of what the team members did during this phase.

a. They split into different groups and took pictures of shopping carts in useb. They also asked questions with experts and users on shopping carts and the builders to see the details of the cart

 5. List five rules-of-thumb that IDEO employees follow when they share ideas during the brainstorming phase:

a. One conversation at a time

b. Stay focused on topic

c. Encourage wild ideas

d. defer judgement

e. encourage on ideas of others


6. Why should wild (and sometimes crazy) ideas be entertained during the brainstorming phase?

   - wild ideas should be entertained because it could give other people ideas and show another side of ideas, the wild idea could also maybe work if they think about it, it could maybe end up working the best because there are unseen constraints

 7. After the brainstorming phase was over, the team narrowed down the hundreds of ideas by _____________ for those ideas that were not only “cool” but also _________________ in a short period of time. What phase of the design process is this called?

   - First Blank - using sticky notes

   - Second Blank - buildable

   This is generating ideas

 8. IDEO believes that the ideas and efforts of a ______________ will always be more successful than the planning of a lone genius.

   - group


9. Once the ideas were narrowed down and divided into categories, the group was split into four smaller teams. What phase(s) of the design process was each of these groups responsible for?
   - to build and model a prototype


10. The leaders at IDEO believe that ________________ behavior and a ______________ environment are two important reasons why their employees are able to think quickly and creatively to produce innovative results.
   - First Blank - playful
   - Second Blank - fun


11. Sometimes, people come up with great solutions that work by trying their ideas first, and asking for _________________ later.
   - opinions



12. Design is often a process of going too far and having to take a few steps back. What phase of the design process would the critique of the four mock-ups come under?
   - refining and commucating results.
  
13. Upon critique of the four teams’ models, it was obvious that none of the teams had developed an optimum solution. However, the people at IDEO believe that it is important to _____________ often in order to _____________ sooner.
   - First Blank - fail
   - Second Blank - succeed


14. What percentage of the entire week’s time did it take to fabricate the final prototype?
   - they desingned it in a day and fabricated it in a day



15. Instead of showering his design team with a tremendous amount of praise, what did the boss require his employees to do with their new design?
   - improve apon their design



16. Of all the things that we are surrounded by every day, what has not been placed through the design process?
   - Nature


Conclusion

1. What did you find to be the most impressive part of the team’s effort?
   - I thought it was pretty cool how they split into groups and investigated different things and so new ideas as they interviewed people and saw it in action. I also thought it was cool they built and designed it so quick through teamwork.


2. What advantages are there to having a design team with members that have non-engineering backgrounds?
   - They are well rounded in skills or building and are experts in building processes.


3. There was a point in the process where a self-appointed group of adults stepped up, stopped the ideas, and redirected the group to break up into teams. Why was this done?
   - to get the job done faster and so different groups can focus on smaller things at one time and focus on it instead of everyone focusing on the whole problem at once


4. At the end of the video, Dave Kelly states, “Look around. The only things that are not designed are the things we find in nature.” Can you think of anything that would contradict this statement?
   - The Grand Canyon was designed by nature to keep the river at a steady flow, the river formed the design of it and made it flow the way it does




Under view of our plane

 

Top view of our plane

 

1) What's the challenge?

   - The challenge is to build a glider to be able glide as far as possible with limited paper and wood

2) Brainstorm solutions:
-What are the rules of brainstorming? (oxymoron)

   - the rules of brainstorming are to develope and write down your ideas on paper so you can see all your ideas

-List your ideas

   - we had a couple, one was two small wings in the front and back and a raised big wing in the middle - we did this one

   - another idea we had was had 1 big bending wing from the front to back but when we tried it the wood broke

-Sketch at least two of them

  - we chose the first idea

3) Specify:
-Criteria

   - our criteria was to build a glideable glider with soft paper and bendy wood

-Constraints (be specific about materials available)

   - we had limited bulsa wood and limited soft paper to build a glider

What are your goals for your glider and how did you adjust your design in order to help it better meet them?

   - our goal is to make it glide straight without it leaning back or diving straight into the ground. We adjust the lifting of the wings so it doesnt make it fly back and we added more weight to the back and middle

Egg Drop

JUSTIFICATION IN RED

ACHIEVEMENTS EARNED: 15

Idea Generation Achievements-

• Sketch of one possible solution
• Generate a list of achievements for build day
• Document a plan to ensure materials are brought in on block day

Build Achievements-

Material Size-

• Your material fits inside a printer paper box
• Your material fits inside a shoe box

Our design was small enough to fit inside the shoe box.
Material Weight-

• Your materials weigh less than 500 grams
• Your materials weigh less than 300 grams
• Your materials weigh less than 200 grams
• Your materials weigh less than 150 grams
• Your materials weigh less than 100 grams
• Your materials weigh less than 50 grams

Our design weighed 49 grams.
Drop Achievements-

Drop Accuracy-

• NONE

Our egg broke before we dropped it.
Egg Resilience-

• Your egg broke but the yolk remained intact
• Your egg cracked but the yolk remained inside and intact
• Your egg cracked but was still together

Our egg was only cracked.
Calculation Achievements-

• NONE

We didn't use any math with our design.
Other Achievements-

• Help set up the bulls eye

Fred and i set up the bulls eye on drop day.
The designs that seemed to work best for my class were the ones that were very simple, light, and had a lot of padding around the egg.

If i were to redesign my solutions, I would use less rubber bands and more cotton balls because the rubber bands put to much pressure on the egg.

1) What is the TED organization about?

   - TED is about people talking about all the things happening in the world and theories about some of the problems the world has today

2) What is the purpose of their website and how does the functionality of their site support that?

   - The purpose of their website is to talk about new science breakthroughs or problems or events that are currently happening. Their site supports it by getting different speakers for different topics and know what they are doing

3) As Engineers and Problem Solvers, which topic areas (the choices from the "Show talks related to:" section on the sidebar) are of most interest to us? Justify your answer.

   - Technology is important to us because the whole world is technology now and we need to build something to support it. Design is also important because as engineers we need a design to have to build off of and expand on.

4) Based on your previous answer, what are 3 talks (videos) on the site that appear like they would be of most interest to you as an Engineer/Problem Solver? Justify your choices.

   1. Thomas Thwaites: How I built a toaster -- from scratch

   2. Reviving New York's rivers -- with oysters!

   3. Cynthia Breazeal: The rise of personal robots

 

 

5) Each student will watch a unique video. Claim your video on the following period specific posts: 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th. If no one else has claimed your video, leave a comment on that post to call the one you want. If someone else has already claimed the talk, go back and pick another one. Watch the video. Embed the video in your blog post and create a bulletized outline of the key issues presented in the talk

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6) How could you get involved in the field/technology/issue you chose to hear about? What experience/skills/training/education would you need to learn to get involved with this field?

   - I could get involved by getting acquainted with the military technology and design a couple of layouts of some new ideas, but I would have to specialize into that major in college or something.
 

Reverse Engineering: Mechanicnal Product - Functional Analysis

1. What is the purpose or primary function of the object?
- The primary objective of this product is to tell or keep track of time



2. Make an educated guess as to how this product operates. Use simple machines’ terminology to explain the object’s sequential operation.
-There are gears in the clock that spin the hands which help keep track of time by staying on top of the number that's the time of day and batteries are what power these gears


3. Identify the system inputs, intended product function, and outputs. Use power point to create a "black box" graphic like the toothbrush example discussed in class. Save the slide as a .jpg image and post it to answer this question.
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4. What mechanical components are visible?
- There are gears in the back of the clock that move the gears you cant see man manually
-Also the hands so second minute and hour hand on the axis in the center of the clock


5. What is it about this device’s function that you cannot identify, because the mechanical components are hidden from plain view?
-the gears on the inside of the clock
-batteries that power the clock
-and many mechanical parts that i cant identify due to complications

-- Front view of the clock

-- some elements in the front view are texture because in the picture the glass reflects so you there is glass in the front, another element is line with the two hands and the second hand

-- some principles are balance and rhythm with the time has equal space in between each other and are equally spread apart, they are to proportion

-- Top view of my clock

--two elements of the top view are texture, it looks smooth, and shape with a rectangle, it also shows color, grey

-- the principles it has is proportion and scale with the front view with the clock

--Side view of the clock

-- two elements of the top view are texture, it looks smooth, and shape with a rectangle, it also shows color, grey

-- the principles it has is proportion and scale with the front view with the clock





The purpose of the clock is to be able to tell time and know the time of day, it meets to mechanical requirements because the second hand, big and small hand all move with the time of day. It also has knobs on the back to change the time for daylight savings or a new time zone.

My Audience:
 - the audience my clock will be a broad range of people as everyone has a clock in their house and this clock is a good to fit anywhere in the house. My audience is everyone who caa tell a time from a analog clock.

Design Project

Design Project

1.) The challenge presented to us was to design a desk organizer that is

made up of atleast 5 different parts. Then we would put the 5 different

parts into one part to make a final desk organizer. My partner is Drew Maracle

2.) I decided to choose this design brief because it interested me in what i could personally come up with as a desk organizer. It was fun putting this together in the CAD software system and i am glad that i chose this one to work on.

3.) Step one in the design process was easy. We knew the problem was making it the correct size and have variety so it could hold different supplies.
-Step 2 was a little more difficult. We decided to brainstorm on a simple device that would get the job done, and thats when we came up with our design.
-Step four in the process made our job difficult though. We had to make it atlesat 5 seperate pieces, and the pieces couldnt be that big. Thats why we decided to do boxes all the same size with different designs on each of them.
-Step 12 of the process was fun. I got the oppurtunity to communicate my results to my teacher and show him what i have put together. He said my project worked out and it wasnt a bad design, it was excactly what i wanted to hear because those words meant that my desk organizer passed.

4.) 3 images of our prior images that we might have gone with::

This first image is a desk organizer that we came up with. It involves a ring with seperate organizers on the ring. You would be able to spin this around to acquire different things from each box.

This was our second design for our desk organizer. This involves having a door on the side and two triangle doors, also with a curved door for optimal space.

This was another design that we implemented which included having 5 seperate desk drawers connected by bars in which u could ultimately open up any door and get whatever you needed.

Came from WIRED magazine of July 2010 on the back cover

The advertisement is a Mercedes Benz that is their new model for sale



-As a team, discuss each of the advertisements selected. Record both team members observations for the advertisement you've selected. Analyze the add using the following Message Analysis considerations:
   
      Message Content- My add is over a new model for Mercedes-Benz that came out and the information tells us the speed and what the car is. It has precise information.

      Size and Shape - My car add is a very good size picture of the new car it is centered in the page so your eyes captures it.

      Readability - The readability on my add is okay, the font is a little small and maybe excess info. It does state some pretty cool facts about the car.

      Needs the Audience - This does appeal the audience and it attracts the male audience, probably the wealthy part because it is a very new and nice Mercedes car.

      Use of Proven Principles and Elements - The add of the car shows the form of the car and the texture by using light in its photo. The page has balance with just enough writing and a good picture. The add takes up a good amount of space with not a lot of open.

1. What are trends? Why is it important to identify them prior to graphic design?
    - A trend is fashion or items that are popular at the moment in the world or a community, its important to identify them before your graphic design because you want to sell something that is popular at the time, not something popular a while ago.

2. How does human nature play a role in how a product is marketed to a specific demographic group?
    - Its important to advertise your product in the right place or add because the car is in a more men towards magazine and guys are generally more into cars than women. It wouldn't be smart to put women's clothing in a men's magazine.

3. How is a potential audience identified?
    - An audience is identified by their characteristics such as their age, income, job and fashion trends.

4. What must you discover about the target audience prior to graphic design?
    - You need to discover what your audience is into and what they like. You need to find out what they are willing to pay for a certain item.

Gamification

So is gameing and not just that but just our life and visual wonders becoming more realistic then fantasy?

-I have to say yes to this because in gaming from a personal experience has always been fantasy but even if it is non fiction there is always that need for realistic things wether it be real gory blood or voices the games for example MODERN WARFARE 2 based on real wars real places just REAL REAL REAL!

Will these video game or points systems help or destroy us as a society?

-Well he said that a famous video game director created a system for his grading instead of the A B C method he bases it on achievent point which seemed to create a boost in attendence class particpation homework turn in etc. so it seem to help in some way i personally think in some way maybe but also no


Are these simple products selling billions focused more on the phscological factor or visual?

-he says thats all these simple products like stuff bears are focused on the imaginative friend so mind tricks type think not based on how cool it look or how fun it looks more on how it is being advertised is how its selling if it based more on looks not doing so well but tricking the mind and using some phycological factors the products are selling threw the roof i personaly have no idea or opinion so i dont know what to say!

3) Locate five items at home or at school that utilize the elements and principles of design. Post an image of each product. List and explain any visual design elements or principles that are evident in that product
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 1. The represents one of the visual designs of elements, there is a lot of space in the room. This could be at home.





2. This house represents lines, this is house is supposed to represent my house, it is one of the 6 visual designs of elements

3. This picture has a lot of color and some of the colors are warm and some are cool colors, this is one of the six visual designs of elements. This could be at the school or my house.

        4. This represents rhythm of music which is one of the 5 principles of design, This is on my piano at home.

5. This is texture and is one of the 6 components of visual design, this is the same texture as our toolbox at home.

1) What are the 6 Visual Design Elements we discussed in class?
-line                           -space
-color                        -texture
-form/shape               -value
2) What are the 5 Visual Design Principles we discussed in class?
-balance            -proportion and scale
-rhyme              -unity
-emphasis

 This is a picture of the cruise boat that was docked in San Diego.

What was the nature of the problem the ship experienced?

-They as far as i know had some engine failure while at sea!

What repairs were required?

-They had to do some work on the engine but not only that but also the engine room which they had to move the ship out of coronado and up the coast to San Fransico

What impact did the unnexpected arrival of the cruise ship have on the local economy?

-I dont really think it effected it much just maybe alittle for the hotels with the whole crew and members that need a place to stay for awhile!

Q- What is a field/hobby/something you have a passion for (surfing, sailing, robotics, painting, etc.)?
I have a couple passions i love baseball,skating and surfing

Q- What person or organization in that field has used blogging to promote their brand?
I honestly have no idea what so ever. I have never heard of anyone doing that cause most people you facebook or some sort of social network!

Q- What is a field you might see yourself blogging about?
I would most likey see myself bloging about baseball and whats new with that sport and rules whats new basically even whats happening in the mlb as well as highschool

my top picks                                            - group top picks                                -coast guards answer
-25L water bottle                                      -25L water bottle                                - a shaving mirror
-a fishing kit                                               -a fishing kit                                        -10L of petrol
-army rations                                             -a case of army rations                        -25L of water
-15ft of nylon rope                                    -a shaving mirror                                  -army rations
-20square ft of opaque plastic sheeting      -15ft nylon rope                                   -20square ft plastic sheet
-a 10L  can of petrol                                 -mosquito netting                                 -2 boxes of chocolate
-2 boxes of chocolate                               -160% proof rum                                 -a fishing kit
-160% proof rum                                      -maps of the ocean                              -15ft of nylon rope
-a shaving mirror                                       -20square ft opaque plastique sheet      -floating seat cushion
-maps of the ocean                                   -10L of petrol                                      -shark repellent
-a floating seat cushion                             -a small transister radio                          -160% proof rum
- a small transister radio                            -shark repellent                                    -small transister radio
-shark repellent                                        -floating cushion                                   -maps of the ocean
-a sextant                                                 - a sextant                                            -mosquito netting
-mosquito netting                                      - two boxes of chocolate                     - a sextant

Yesterday we had an activity that we had to do some team building or teamworrk on!
 1-we had a tennis ball we needed to touch everyones hand
2-our idea was stand in a circle and one person go around
3- we had some constraints making only on person touch the ball
4-we had everyone at ones arm length and eyes closed! (we won)
this activitys required communitacion good brain storming and teamwork

Yess got it done!