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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Multiview drawing:
4 Quadrant design
Friday, May 6, 2011
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
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
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
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
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
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.
Monday, March 14, 2011
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.
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
