Eric Wei

I made a box with different grides for storage. I made this for keeping the things on my desk clear. I ran into this problem just one week before this design project started. I have pens, sharpeners, charger and many little gadgets that i need to keep in order. When i got home I measured the space on my table and found the size i wanted and started designing. The first change i made was the fingers, i accidentally made my fingers all going outward and none dented in which makes it not connect, another important change i made was when there wasn’t much time left so i changed the secret compartment into a separate floor for storage. I think i did pretty well and i’m satisfied with my finished piece.

I think that i learnt a lot during this project from a person that don’t know how to use fusion to a person that can make things i want and need. I used, trim, line, mirror, 2 point rectangle. The most challenging part was making sure that all the pieces fit and the slots slit in. I had a big problem were i forgot to include the thickness of the sides on the bottom piece which made some pieces pop out. I fixed this by adding a 0.5 on each side and rebuilt the fingers. Something really cool i found was that how easy it was to create or make a thing you want, like if you had to do it by hand you would take at least a month but on this app and with the cutter it would just take a week. It was really easy to delete and make new adjustments. Using just one sketch is more convenient and helpful in this project.

I think that i have done a good job producing my project even though its not fully wood. I know that i might have been lazy to read all the texts but i think i have a good attitude overall. For future students-sometimes things are not as difficult as they look like and sometimes its not as easy but if you keep trying and changing you will get it right. My project was (i think) hard enough for me and that i challenged myself. But if i have to change i would add a pattern on the sides if there was more time. Something i think that should definitely keep is the enthusiasm and humor of this class which really motivates me. I think this class is as good as it is so nothing to drop. This project was really fun and i understood most of the things.

My biggest success was making the top basket moveable and also adding lights. It was successful  because we couldn’t use the first idea(using lego mechanics)but we successfully made it with sticks and cardboard. The lights was also successful because they lite up when needed and could also be controlled.

One piece of advice i would give a future doing this project is that make backup plans for thing that are difficult and make a backup machine for something that moves. The moving things are the easiest to ware out since they are the ones played with the most.

One thing I’d like to change  is the catapult because it sometimes shoot over the backboard because the angel of the wooden stick was hot glued to upwards which doesn’t give the user space to pull back and release.