I am making an for a client. Below is my process journal for this experience. Follow along and see how I create it.

Short paragraph:

Overall, I agree with 86% of the main ideas that I shared on my infographic about humanism. I feel that humanism is great, it changed how humans viewed their lives on Earth, life became interesting and meaningful, and it changed the world. I would say I am a humanist, because the main ideas I agree with quite a lot and I think they are the right way of life, for example, one of the main ideas is the value of education and learning, in subjects like history, art, language, literature, and science. I agreed with the education part 5/5 because education is of course really important in life and I agree with it.

Infographic PDF:

idk why it turned into a hyperlink, but yeah click it to see my infographic

humanism

#humanities #humanism #canva #summative #renaissance

Design blog
 

Part one: 

So, when the laser cut project was announced, and the options were given (phone holder or lamp), I chose the phone case, because well I have a phone, and I thought it would be useful to store my phone that way. In design class, I first measured out the dimensions of my phone, and wrote it down, since that would be very important, as this can help me find out the size of the phone holder I would make. We then downloaded the fusion app, after every student in the class has downloaded the fusion app, we started learning fusion about the different things you can do, how to use their functions and tools, and we learned fusion the basics and fundamentals of fusion for a few weeks into online learning. For the design and drawing on the phone holder, I chose to do I basketball themed one, because I like basketball and that is what I am passionate about. After learning all the necessary basics, fundamentals and tools in fusion 360, we started to work on our prototype. 

Part two: 

When we started making the cardboard prototype, I ran into a few difficulties, firstly, was making the fingers, I used the rectangular pattern to make the fingers, and it was just really time consuming and sometimes I would mess up, and making the fingers was just really irritating for me. So, Ms. Kim recommended this website called “makercase” to me and the rest of the class, and it instantly made my job so much easier, once I went to the make case website, I just had to enter the dimensions, choose the fingers option and made it an open box, that is it, then just download the dxf file and import it to fusion. Once I got the dxf of my box into fusion, I imported the images of my designs, in fusion these “images’ are called “canvases” and after I imported the images, I traced the with the spline tool. There are 2 spline tools, the first one is called fit point spline and the second one is called control point spline, I tried both out to see which one I should use, and for me personally I find using control point spline was a bit easier for me, especially if your design has a lot of curved line in it, for straight lines it’s easy to trace with both, so I went ahead and used control point spline to trace my designs. In addition, I also used the 2-point circle tool to make a circle cut out, for my magnet which will be glued on once the final is made, the magnet is on the back of the phone holder, and so the phone could just stick to the metal door of my locker door using the magnet. After I finished all the designs and tracing, I downloaded the dxf file of my phone holder, and imported it to light burn, the process for light burn is a lot simpler and it just took me 5-6 minutes, once I got the dxf file to Lightburn, I highlighted the whole thing and chose the red option, which is cut, and the designs I chose black, black is to just etch the drawing or design on the cardboard, and red to cut all the way through. Then I downloaded the Lightburn file and sent it for approval for the prototype. The file was approved, and the prototype was laser cut and brought back to me for the next class. The prototype came out the way intended, the designs looked good, and everything seemed fine, except that the cardboard burned a little bit on the corner, but that’s the material, on wood, it won’t burn. The hole for the magnet was a bit too big, 1mm too big to be exact, so I went back to fusion and shrunk the circle’s diameter by 1mm, downloaded the dxf, imported it to Lightburn and this time, the file would be named wood instead of cardboard, since now I’m going to make the final. The file for the final was approved and it got sent to laser cut. The pieces of wood were cut out, I glued all the pieces together, sanded down the hold for the magnet a bit, and glued the circle magnet on, waited for the glue to dry and I finished the project.

Part 3:

Part 3: Reflecting & Sharing – RS1 

Reflect on the course overall and your actions, attitudes, and performance. In this part of the blog, you will address the following three areas. These are required. 

What tips, tricks, and advice would you give to the incoming students? 

First, use makercase to make the fingers, it would save a lot of time and it’s easier, secondly, save your files often, be careful not to lose your files, because that means you will have to restart. 

Consider: what would have helped you if you knew it at the start of the course?

That using makercase was a lot faster, I did waste some time making the fingers on fusion, if I knew about the maker case earlier, I would’ve saved a lot of time. 

What would you, individually, do differently if you could go back and have the class over? 

I would’ve spent more time decorating; I think that that would be something to improve on. 

Consider: design ideas, work effort, mistakes, challenges, level of difficulty, how you did or did not challenge yourself 

Working through this course did take a lot of effort and patience, making things on fusion, running into tech difficulties sometimes, and learning how to use fusion and Lightburn correctly and effectively was quite challenging for me, and I did challenge myself, through making all the little changes and doing this project with much effort and careful thought and consideration. 

What would you (the student) want to be changed about the course so I (the teacher) can make improvements to the course? 

I wouldn’t really change anything, but one thing I would like to see changed is maybe more options on what to make, for example, maybe they could’ve made a wooden pencil cup for some other options and stuff. 

Consider: the projects, how the class ran, activities during the class, what to drop, what to keep, etc. 

I think overall the class ran quite well, I enjoyed most of the activities, what to keep is the videos regarding the tips and tricks about fusion, what to drop, I would probably drop the utensils activity, I just didn’t really find much interest orenjoyment when doing this activity, but other than that, I think the class was pretty good. 

Think: what would have made it better for you? 

The videos with tips uploaded on dx made it a lot clearer for me, it helped me learn things about fusion better and it helped me remember how to use all the tools and functions. 

Final thoughts on design class: 

I think overall I enjoyed this course, the laser cut project although difficult and sometimes irritating because of tech issues, it was fun for me, and I really enjoyed it. I learned a lot about fusion and it’s the first time I did something like this, I never used software like fusion 360 and never learned anything about laser cutting, but I’m glad I took this 1 semester long course, and it was cool. 

Part 1:

The ideas my partners and I came up with during brain storming were the lasagna spoon, the noodle spork (I just found out it already exists), and we eventually chose the use the grippy chopsticks as out final idea. My partner and I thought about these ideas, by talking about foods that we had problems eating, and how we can solve the problem. For example, we came up with a utensil for lasagna, the problem is that when we eat it (with a spoon or fork) the ingredients and layers falls apart, and leave a giant mess, so we thought of making a spoon that is deeper, and contains the lasagna, so it doesn’t fall off.

Part 2:

For part 1a, most of the feedback for improvement is better drawing, or make the drawing more neat, so we used this feedback and tried to draw better in parts 6 and 7, we refined the drawings after that, and make it look better. 

Here is the feedback

Stars:

Good idea 

Good solution 

I like how you showed your work by writing problem: solution: 

I think the idea for the chopsticks is creative 

Explains well 

Good solution 

I like how creative your invention are 

I like you explanation  

Ideas are good 

Problems are real 

Lasagna idea is cool 

Dumpling 

I like how you tell the problem and then the solution 

Very creative 

Creative 

Good solution 

Good wards 

Drawing good 

I like how you make your design simple 

Wishes

Add more detail 

More neat 

More drawing 

For the forkspoon its already a thing and figure out if the edge of the chopsticks would cut through the food 

More detail 

Neat 

Drawing could be neat 

Make your drawing clear 

Make more detailed drawings/diagrams 

Make a better diagram  

Too simple 

The spoonfork is already been invented 

Isn’t it quite hard to get the grip side pointing in 

Part 3:

The grippy chopsticks strength is that it provides grip to foods that slip off of normal chopsticks, for example dumplings, and we added some rubbery grip material to the tip of the chopstick to prevent it from slipping off, one weakness 

Elevator pitch video