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1:1 Prototype [Week 11]

Planning

The idea we're using going forward comes following a discussion of our favourite aspects from our individual Week 3 prototypes. We concluded that we wanted to pursue a bright and natural theme. The leaf pattern from Chinmayee and the tree shape and form were taken from Sooa. Together they form a functional and beautiful product.
Idea sketch 1 (from Sooa)

Idea sketch 2 (from Sooa)


 
 Sooa and Soraya marked the graphic onto styrene before it was cut.
 


Chinmayee and Soraya demonstrate that we partially assembled a 1:1 prototype. 
 
 
Sooa uses the heat gun to bend the styrene to create facets to connect the model.

1:1 Physical Prototype

Flower Camera has a magnet. There is a magnet behind the camera that can be attached to the desired tree branch. The yellow part is the Camera lens. The petals will then be made of paper. Just for this low-fidelity prototype we have used styrene. However for the actual model we will use plastic for the base and body and paper for the flower and light filter. 



Front


Side


The base will be made with 3D printing, and the body(tree shape) will be made of acrylic using laser cutting.

Orthographic

In the lab, we got some feedback for our final. So this is our final orthographic.

Rendering

We modelled a basic version of our web camera on onShape. Please check the link to see our model: Check Modeling! Here's an image of how the rendering looks. 


Future plan



We are attaching parchment paper on the body of our model, and users can customize the paper by inserting the desired picture. As shown in the video, the user can adjust the position by attaching the flower with the camera to the body of the tree. 








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