12frames per second, i am proud of my self.

Part one: Forming an idea.

The idea of making a piggy bank came from the situation of me losing my coins and cash because i have no place to put them. They are usually stuffed in one pocket in my backpack, but I always forget to organize them, so something like coins were put separately in my house and never appeared when i need them happened. Therefore, my outline for this project was made: coin box.

I firs thought about making some cool designs on the seven sides of my coin box (everyone know that a box always have one side faced down that is not visible), but then realized it had to be special and different in some aspect. I knew I am not talented in making cool drawings, so why not focus on the function improvements.

Thinking back to my real life, I always had my cash stuffed together, and every time when I pull them out, the cash came out pulling the coins out, dropping everywhere. To prevent this, I thought about making my coin box divided into two sections: one for paper money, one for coins. And it also has a side that can be opened for taking my money out.

However, my design still looked to ordinary, I wanted to and more functions to it. I thought about the slit for a vending machine that can organize different coins dropped into the same hole automatically. But that will be too sophisticated, so I simplified it, into a box that was divided into two areas by a wood board in the middle, but with a slope to transfer coins on top, so that I can put everything inside one hole but separate them into different areas.

(That planning sheet was super helpful on planning stuff out)

Part Two: some growths are:

learning how to use Fusion 360, it has tons of functions in it that I can’t believe that I can really make something out of it

learning the basic steps of designing

learning how to laser cut stuff out

learning ways to improve my project after it was printed

Part Three:

Tips for other students:

1. Making a specific and detailed plan is super important
2. measure stuff precisely
3. Use your time WISELY

What I would change:

There are some drawings that seemed to be unprocurable for our laser cutting machine, so I would make some different drawings if I redo it.

Introduction!

Quiet Power, a nonfiction book by Suzy Cain, illustrates multiple wise ways for introverts to become powerful. There is more than one story and it includes all kinds of people, but there are always ways for them to improve. The reason this book intrigues me is the comprehensiveness of conditions for introverts and this book gives a better understanding of the word introvert.

Day 3

Those quotes that relate to one of the themes in this book reveal the disadvantages of introverts in this society that requires people to express themselves but also gave practical recommendations to introverts to make up those advantages. This also shows that the author is a successful introvert with all those socializing skills.

Day 5

In today’s lesson, we did a debate (mostly presentation) on our central idea of the book Quiet Power. When preparing, we noticed all those facts about introverts; For example, at least 33 percent of introverts in our society, and not everyone that seemed vivid are extroverts.

Day 8

The class learned a new noting technique, which is noticing cause and effects throughout the book and being able to notice things that had a lot of cause/effect. For introverts in the society, there is a typical “disadvantage”, that is not communicating. For this disadvantage, there are obliviously a lot of causes, but in the effects area, our group noticed that there are two different outcomes, good ones and bad ones, which shows that things are not completely good or bad.

Day 9

By the technique of “going down the rabbit hole”, readers can learn about a lot of new knowledge that is not related to the book’s topic. For example, the book our group is reading is about introverts; However, the “rabbit hole” I dive in was about Wi-Fi, and learned facts like who invited the Wi-Fi, what is the full name…

1. What did you struggle with most?

At first, I was having a hard time having ideas of the speaker, and then having the right measurement for the speaker’s buttons and charger hole was difficult. At last, gluing the pieces together took me a long time but it is much easier than the others.

2. What aspect of this project are you most proud of?

The design is similar to the dice, which is what I want and I made a new speaker that can really work,

3.What skills did you learn or improved

I learned how to use affinity and how a speaker is made. The improvements I made are to design stuff in a more efficient way   . 

My greatest success was having the idea of making a slide on the two sides of my product which enables the upper part move smoothly up and down.

My greatest obstacle was to make the two sides stand straight and steady.

Skills I learned are to use TABS (the L shape cardboard ) to make the cardboard stand and connected.

Something I learned about myself is it is easy for me to do things so fast that I can’t notice detail.

Something I like to change was not to make my product’s two walls thick because that wasted too much time.

My product relates to the real world because I got my idea of designing a crab shell cracker from a walnut cracker.

One feedback is ” you spend too much time on cutting your walls out, bruh” .

One advice I give is the bigger your product is, the longer time you spend.

It is a success because I made all the things that I imagined before making.

It is not a success because I didn’t get to put a spring on it so it can’t really work.