We were asked to help our partner to design something that will stop their favorite food from ruining. I had to design a product that will keep my partner’s (Mr. Layman) favorite food; french baguette from going stale.
Research:
I did some research on how to keep baguette fresh and here’s what I found:
Wrap the baguette with aluminum foil, then put it in the freezer. when you want to eat it first wet the baguette and heat it in the oven for 10 to 15 minutes. after research I decided to design something that will do both of the job of heating and freezing it.
Sketch:
during the research part I decided to make some thing that could heat it as well as freezing it, but after wards I figure it’ll be better if the inner layer of my design is aluminum foil. it’s a pretty simple design with a heat and a freeze button, and a place to put baguette(I did some changes to my design when I am making my prototype)
Prototype:
since I was making something that has a box shape so I decided to first draw it on the paper, then cut it out, the stick the sides together (I added a On/Off button on my prototype.)and at last it looked like the picture below:
Conclusion:
My biggest obstacle in this project is the making the prototype part. When I was drawing on the paper I didn’t measure how long each side should be, so actually my prototype should be longer.
One thing I’d like to change is the prototype part because I was planing to add aluminum foil inside the prototype but I forgot about it when I was trying to stick the sides together.
One piece of advice I would give a future student doing this project is the sketch part is really important, it decides how your prototype is going to look like.
Overall I think this product is fine, but there are still lots of space for improving.