Instead of finding three new project ideas, I wanted to complete a project I had begun in 9th grade and never finished. After I stumbled upon a neat-looking project involving facial, recognition, I thought about creating a container that locks/unlocks when it recognizes someone's face. Any college student sharing a fridge could use this invention to protect his/her food. However, because my last project was software heavy, I was looking for a more physical project where I could use the Fab Lab's equipment to create something tangible.
The project is a kinetic sculpture designed by Derek Hugger, and the Fab Lab has all the resources to recreate it. I already have the plans and files for the parts, but I need to restart on pretty much everything else since nothing was saved from 3 years ago. I will need to buy the hardware and redesign the milling files, which should be easier now that I have more experience. Being familiar with the basic process and steps of this project and having saved my materials list will hopefully allow me to jump right in. One major modification I've made is milling my parts from HDPE instead of wood.
All of my files, documents, and pictures can be found in the Google Drive folder above.