My idea for the phone holder came from the problem that my phone needed a safe, and clean space to be put. My first idea was to make a hole from the pocket to the base of my holder. This made it so that I could charge it efficiently, though it didn’t match the requirement size standard in the DX page. Because of this, I needed to improve and ended up making a 80 mm by 25mm pocket of wood to fit my phone perfectly. The proportions were just right, meaning my phone wouldn’t move violently around.  The base was then crafted into a 110mm by 35mm plank, refining the balanced position. I decided on wood thickness being 5mm. On the outside, I added the apple design, because I wanted to indicate that my phone was made by apple.

 

Problems that I encountered throughout this process was matching the right sized fingers, as wrong measurements, wrong spacing, or the wrong number of fingers, would cause the remake of the panel. I was then met in a step in which I had to include fingers to my panels, I accidentally added the wrong number to each wood plank which resulted in me remaking/redoing the panel. However, I decided to try the undo button in Fusion, to go back to where I made my mistake. I then made sure I  had the correct/efficient amount of fingers the second time. Through this, I learned to use rectangles, circles, triangles, and tools including mirror, spline, offset, and rectangular and circular patterns, and how to incorporate them into my own design.

 

My advice for future students is to be patient if your fusion work doesn’t export to light burn. I had a problem where my design was denied, and couldn’t be converted. I showed the teachers and ICT what was happening but they all didn’t have a solution, which delayed my work for 2 days. Fortunately, I decided to continuously restart my computer. I was then able to export my fusion work to light burn and was able to finish my laser cutting. If I could go back and do the class over, I would go for mastery, though I got a meeting because the sides of my base were popped out. I regret this, as I would have definitely made sure this error didn’t occur if I did product design a second time. One thing I would definitely change about the course would be the lack of 3D printing. We got to do modeling and even laser cutting, but never printed our models. I think 3D printing would be interesting, as it offers a unique experience to middle schoolers that uses the entire design lab more.

 

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