Design Phase 1:

Project Identification 

Prior Art

Why do they not fit the need of our stakeholders?

The first four of these guitars have faulty designs such and some of them are electric. Electric guitars are much more complex to handle and would be too difficult to build on one's own. Not only will electric design be to heavy for my design but hooking up wires and buying an electric box may not be best for 5th graders to build themselves.

 The other laser cut guitar and ukulele are my inspirations for my design. I really like the way the Ukulele and the Guitar are pieced together and I used that for my own design too. These designs are a bit fault for building. The Guitar's neck is built out of hard lumber and the Ukulele is too weak if it is fold-up. 

My prototype 

Materials:

The neck will made out of wood and will be laser cut. 

The bridge will be a laser cut piece of wood.

The guitar will actually nelon strings. 

The tuners which hold on to the strings will be laser cut out of wood. There are four tuners.

The 'cigar box' will be made out of wood and laser cut. 

Assembling

1. I am planning on pre-assembling the guitar to test the design first

2. I will start packing kits

   1. Materials In-person or Online students will receive:

      1. Laser cut neck (1 or 4 pieces)

      2. Nelon strings (4 strings)

      3. Tuners (4 pieces)

      4. 'Cigar box' pieces (6 pieces)

      5. Laser cut bridge (2 pieces)

My plan is for students have the guitar sides to easily clip together like a puzzle. The tuners will slide in the side of the neck so the students can tune the neck. 

Lesson Plan

I am planning on having pre-recorded videos demonstrating myself putting together the guitar.

I am also planning on having pre-recorded videos showing how to play songs on the guitar.

design Phase 2: Specification DEVELOPMENT 

Design Specification

My goal for this project is to design and build a handmade musical instrument based off the design of a guitar or ukulele that will serve and benefit the need of the elementary students. I have kept most of the original design progress that I designed but now instead of laser cutting the neck we are planning on buying pre-made ones off of Amazon. 

Because there is 10 students doing in person learning and 17 doing online learning. We will need 27 pre-made necks. 

Formal Requirements

The final dimensions of the body of the handmade intrusement is 5 in. length by 7.5 in. width by 1.5 in. thick.

The lesson plan will contain the instructions to build the instrument. I will label each side so the pieces can fit together. 

Fretboard will be laser cut but the dimensions are unknown as of now due to the unknown size of the pre-made ukulele neck. The neck is a tenor ukulele and most tenor ukulele neck's are 26 inches so the neck could be 26 inches at most.

Because the neck is pre-made, I am planning to pre-drill the neck and the one of the sides of the body for my DIY kit. 

Plywood for Laser Cut Body and Fretboard

Classroom Materials To Be Purchased:

design Phase 3: conceptual design

Purpose of the Slideshow

The slideshow is dedicated to teaching and demonstrating the ways of how to build the laser cut ukulele. 

I will represent you my design review with my slides. I will go in detail of what the lesson will be about in the presentation.

design phase 4/5: detailed design & DELIVERY

Amazon Wish List for future DIY Kits