This is a food detecter I made during this unit in design. My inspirations are from the temperature gun, and the antenna. I used a temp gun as an inspiration because I think the shape is easy to grab on and the screen can be useful to see what it detected. Antena is also an inspiration because I’ve seen a lot of detecters with something like an antenna, and I think it worked well. I used cardboard for the main material, used a card paper to roll it to an antenna, and foam for the trigger and buttons. I used ducktape to covered the handle part because it looks neater, and a cotton swab to make the center of the antenna.

To use the detecter, there are four easy steps. First, open the start/off button,  then press the reset button if it’s not reset. Second, press the trigger to start detecting. Third, look at the screen to see what it has detected. To turn it off, don’t touch it or press the on/off button again.

 

 

For this Product Design unit, we made Lightbox about a place special to us that we can’t visit because of covid. I chose the park that we always go to with our dog because of covid and also because I injured my knee.  We used mostly Adobe Illustrator to make the shapes and used acrylic paint to color. It’s extra challenging when you don’t know how to use the app, and it’s online learning.

Skills I learned include how to join/separate shapes using Adobe, paint on wood using acrylic, and how to make a scratch card only using paint and dish soap(no picture). A big obstacle was when I tried to figure out how all the shapes and things look. It’s really frustrating when you try to move a shape a bit and it changes everything, and a big success was putting it together.

Something I will change next time is, first, make the colors lighter when I paint, so the sky and grass will look better. Next, make my faceplate thicker, so it will show up more. If I can, I’ll mix colors for the dog. I also learned from my mistakes, and advice for the future student doing this project, you have to be super accurate when you measure and stick when using wood. If one measurement went wrong, everything doesn’t work. Overall, I think my lightbox looks well, and it’s successful in many ways, the measurements, the layers, and the difference between my idea and the real thing are mostly similar.?