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CNC Tahitian Uke

December 01, 2017

This is the process that happened post digitization of the Tahitian Uke. Jon and I had to do the design in two separate parts. After they were done, I cut them out of the foam base ... ... and started to sand them down, except the process was very violent and led to the accidental emancipation of limbs... I then put the two parts together and voila! A mini Turtle Tahitian Ukulele! I am actually very impressed with how this turned out!! I'm super excited to push this further and make a bigger version of this out of wood and then I can string it and actually be able to play it!! all I need now is the time to do it haha I already have it sized to fit within the 17x20 window that the woodshop CNC mill can operate within and named the file Tony Montana so you know this'll be good .

Rhino Progress - Eyewear

November 26, 2017

So I started the digitization of my dual disco sensory experience and here are a couple of screenshots of my process :) As you can see I am creating my revised design. I have the measurements of my phone to fit nice and snug on the bottom panel so it has a place to act as the dance floor and the speaker :) Here I'm just creating smoother surfaces with the split tool. So far there aren't any intense sections that are too difficult for me to 3D model, but who knows what might happen in the future haha.

Unconventional Disco Environment Prototype

November 18, 2017

Here is my prototype!! looks quite inconspicuous on the outside right....? Well... BAM! It turns into a wild disco for two on the inside! Complete with a disco dance floor, a *spinning* disco ball, mirrored walls, and an environment for some serious eye contact all the while September by Earth Wind and Fire is playing in the background, this unconventional eye wear piece makes one hell of a party! It was kinda complicated to start because I didn't really know how to begin this prototype so I pulled dimensions from my friends faces and you really get to know someone when you spend some time measuring their noses and other facial features! On top of the prototype there is a little turner nub so you can spin the tiny disco ball on the inside! Also, on the bottom it has a little pouch so you can put your phone in it to play some intense disco funk! After creating this I had some really good conversations with my peers about how to solve the problem o

Refined Unconventional Eyewear Concept : Dual Disco Glasses

November 11, 2017

In class we kind of talked about all the designs I had created but only two sketches stood out to me and everyone else: the disco one ( number 3) and the two person one (number 10). Number 3 was maybe too ambitious to do considering the speakers, lights and the revolving disco balls. Number 10 was maybe a little too plain and someone else had already thought of it so I decided to mash the two up together to create a two person disco. DUAL DISCO GLASSES So the concept is designed to be a disco for two! I will create a 70's environment within this unconventional eyewear piece including a bunch of LED lights, a small hanging disco ball, some stickers about peace and love, and a phone holder so you can play Earth Wind & Fire for as long as you like. The piece also offers a solitude of intense eye contact between the two disco enthusiasts which touches on some interesting topics of living in a world devoid of eye contact.

Fran & Jon's Terrificly Unique Tahitian Ukulele

November 11, 2017

We first started off by introducing ourselves and getting to know what the other's likes and hobbies were! I found out that he once did a portrait of George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, that his favourite animal was a turtle and that we both preferred mustard over ketchup! From our convo we devised some Grade A sketches of possible concepts we could design and it wasn't too long before we settled on the Tahitian Turtle Ukulele idea because it was a mash up between two things that we very much enjoy: Jon likes turtles and I like playing my ukulele. We chose to do a Tahitian Uke because it works much better to design in respect of the CNC machine's ability. Here are our sketches. You can see a couple of ideas that we filtered through like a spaceship, a sandwich, and a hand. We were able to stick it through and finish the rhino design in one sitting! We took turns doing certain parts. The trickiest part to do was filleting all the edges because not al

Preposterous 3D Eraser project that I somehow managed to do without asking for an extension.

November 04, 2017

This was a great learning experience but I have never so badly wanted to smash my laptop before. These are my renders! Pretty exciting to see how it all came together! The minute details were really worth it, in the end :) tbh i'm proud of how well each piece came together. I primarily solved all my problems with planarsrf, explode, group, and - a huge shout out to - the split tool! For without that I don't even know how I could make some of the shapes as accurate as I did haha. The most tedious/frustrating part was getting each individual hole (which there are 41! It took me 3 times to count btw) in the main chamber and then splitting the negative shapes so that i could join all the surfaces that needed to be there. And after about 30 minutes of doing that I finally finished only to realize that I could've made only one and then copied it to all the others and that would've probably taken 10 minutes MAX. It was at the point when I took a break and

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