T-Rex Design

I have chosen to make the T-Rex design for my mechanism. So far I have drawn out the shapes for the design, but need the size of my sheet of wood before I can put the dimensions on the design.
Today Charli and I glued together two pieces of wood for the body.

Summary of the term so far

This term we have been using the application 'Pro Desktop' which is a CAM program.
We have created cubes and learnt how to use features such as
-extrude
-project profile
-select face/edge/part
-shell
-round edges
-change colour
-constraints
-revolving
-etc.
we have created a remote, random cubes, water bottles and vases.

Questions

1.Choose 2 machines that you used in the fabrication of your desk tidy. With these machines in mind, outline WPH&S considerations that must be adhered to when using these machines. Include photographs of your chosen machines (OnGuard may be an excellent resource for this question).

Strip Heater
-Wear proper clothing
-do not touch the heating element of the strip heater
-do not leave strip heater unattended
-do not touch heated strip of plastic
-do not heat acrylic with paper/plastic cover still attached

Band Saw
-Wear proper clothing
-keep your hands and fingers atleast 3" away from the blade
-do not start machiene with blade touching the workpeice
-pay full attention to the machiene

2.The material you are using for your desk tidy is called Polymethylmethacrylate (ACRYLIC). It has specific properties and uses. Choose 2 other common polymers and in table form give their industrial name, common name, properties and uses.

Industrial Name	Common Name	Properties	Uses
Polybutadiene	PBD	Highley resilient synthetic rubber	Tyres
Polybutylene	PB	Strong enough to replace metal and also flexable	Pipes

3.Extrusion, injection moulding, compression moulding, vacuum forming and laminating are examples of common manufacturing processes used with polymers (Plastics). Choose one process and with the use of diagrams and bullet points outline the process.
Vacuum Forming

Vacuum Forming is a process where a piece of thermo plastic is heated and placed over a mould before being vacuumed around the mould, forming the shape of the mould.


4.Extension Work - Using processes acquired from your maths lessons, calculate the amount of acrylic sheet that your FINAL desk tidy represents. Show all calculations; answer needs to be in square metres. 

L=46cm
W=20cm
A=LxW
=46x20
=920cm squared
therefore my whole desk tidy was 920cm squared of black acrylic

Desk Tidy

So far this term I have practically completed my desk tidy.
Problems encountered are;
-no white out
-wrong angle of a line so my tidy was off balance
-no white out
-one line being longer on one end
-no white out

All of the problems that I encountered were all fixed and my desk tidy looks great!

It says barcode because before i bent it it looked like one.

Today during the lesson, I got majority of my desk tidy completed, I just need to do one more bend... and balance it out. On of the bends of my desk tidy wasn't bent properly, so now it is off balance and unable to stand flat.
The tidy is currently within the limits of the task, but next lesson I need to re-bend the one that is wonky.

Video Report

-you have to really know the material your dealing with
-drawing should show all details
-working models make explanations easier
-look out for different shapes, sizes and textures
-get a clear brief
-design is very important
-good design should be expected

Plans For Desk Tidy

Things the desk tidy needs to hold

-iPad
-Paper
-Pens
-Erasers
-Blu-tack
-Money
-A book
-Headphones

Tools For Acrylic

Acrylic cement
-Melts and hardens quickley.
-Hardest at about the 1 hr point

Strip heater
-Stronger than glue
-Very quick
-Professional look

Oven
-160 degrees
-Bends around anything
-Turn on 10min before using

Spade drill
-Always clamp acrylic down
-Doesn't chip plastic
-Don't push down hard

THE idea of the CENTURY

I really like this design and think that I might remake it I'll just need to figure out the measurements.
For the design to fit the brief, I'll need to squish it up a bit, but I think that it'll work.

More Ideas

More Ideas

More Ideas

Ideas for Desk Tidy

Research a modern day light designer and comment on their contribution to the design world.

Designer- Jeremy Pyles
Creation The Pendant Lamp
The New York designer introduced his design in 2003. The hand blown pendant lamps became popular so quickly that he decided to create his own line of Pendant Lamps.

Here are some of Jeremy's Designs

How can the modern home become more energy efficient with regard to lighting?

For Modern households to become more energy efficient with regard to lighting by;
-Switching light bulbs to LEDs
-Turn off lights when leaving the room/house
-etc

Comment on Global Warming.

Global Warming is a huge environmental problem that the world is facing today. Global Warming is where there is too much air pollution that creates holes in the ozone layer and allows large amount of excessive heat to enter earths atmosphere and that is affecting the habitats of many animals, especially the ones that live in colder climates.
People around the world aren't being energy efficient causing power plants around the globe to burn more fossil fuels such as coal which release large amounts of Carbon Dioxide into the air creating the holes in the ozone layer.
Then there is the fact that the human species is constantly cutting down trees for building both necessary and unnecessary things and also for the creation of the millions of sheets that are used and wasted around to globe by majority of the worlds population. These have caused a large percentage of rainforests like the Amazon Rainforest to be chopped down, taking away millions of animals habitats and forcing many species onto the road to extinction. Also, with the large amounts of trees being cut down the human species is taking away giant carbon dioxide filters. Trees naturally take in carbon dioxide and release Oxygen gas, which is needed by all living organisms on earth to survive. These are just some of the reasons why global warming is a large factor in the destruction of the planet earth and we, as humans, are driving our planet towards the edge of the cliff.

Define the following lighting terms.

Ambient Light: The light surrounding an environment or object.
Direct light diffuser: A device to redirect or scatter light from a source.
Luminosity: The brightness of a light source of a certain wave length as it appears to the eye.
Energy Efficiency: The percentage of total energy input to a machiene or equiptment that is consumed in useful work not wasted as useless heat.
Watts: An international unit of measurement of power equal to one joule per second.

What is the actual difference between light of different colours?

All light has different colours but usually they are mixed together. for example, when you burn something, the colours in teh flame will show you which materials are being burnt du to each element having its own colour signature.

THE LAMP GOT COMPLETED

I COMPETED MY LAMP!!!!!

And then a dragon came and ate it.... -.-

Nahh, Its looking GOOD, as you can see in my last post.
I stuck the light to the aluminium and soldered it to the power pack, but then i noticed that the cord wasn't going through the hole... I had to cut it apart and redo it, but it worked. The wire has been insulated and after almost a whole lesson, it got thewires covered.

ITS DONE!!!! YAY!!!

Lamp Images, COMPLETED!!!

Today

Today in D.F. my lamp got destroyed by a giant rainbow unicorn...

KIDDING, Today my lamp got pretty much COMPLETED!!! The shrink rap got shrunk and I got to light the torch at least 5 TIMES!!! My lamp light has been cleaned, connected to the lamp frame, soldered to the power pack. The cord has been insulated and stuck to the frame as well. All I need to do is put the cover over the cord

Whats Happened so far...

I haven't been on here for a little while, but not much has happened other than that my lamp base has been cut and sanded with a scroll saw, sander and sand paper and my light has been screwed to the base. My lamp looks really good now and next lesson we are going to start putting the lights onto the lamps.

I will post pictures of my lamp later when I take some.

Wardys wonderful workshop tour

1. Ask before using machines

2. There are instructions for each machine

3. There are 2 scroll saws

4. There is super glue in the workshop

5. Make sure switches are on when using anything.

Photos.

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Workshop start.

So far this week we have had 2 lessons in the workshop. the first lesson, I was obsessed with the idea of paperclips, so I created on out of the wire that we had to draft our ideas. I then figured that if I bent on of the sides into another angle, it could be a lamp. Today, we started bending the aluminium into our lamp shapes. The lamp looks pretty cool to me and I can sit my ipad in the curve of the lamp. The bottom of my lamp was too big to fit into one wood block, so I now have two pieces of jarra gluing together in the workshop.

Year nine DF

Today was my first year nine DF class. We have gone through the design task, to create a desk lamp, seen images of lamps created by previous years and now know a bit of what is to come in the task. We have received a booklet that has information on light, the history of light design, global warming and how to put our lamps together. I have started on some sketches of some previous designs so that I can get used to the main features of the lamps before I mash a few together and create my final lamp design.