Finn Lincoln Final Project

 These are my preliminary designs for my lamp which I have decided is going to be final project because I want to make my lamp super cool and complex.  I decided to make a design sort of similar to the 2nd one in the 2nd row. Next class I will look to make full scale sketches to the begin designing.

 These are my full measure sketches of the design that I want for my lamp. I made the desired measurements and now I am going to move on to creating my cardboard design with adobe illustrator. I am a little worried that I will not be able to replicate the stand (art that I made).

Other designs are below. 

 As you can see from the pictures, I plan on making the stand around 16-17 inches high with the base of the lamp being about 8.5 by 6 inches. I want to use this cool design for the stand part as shown on the right here that i found on the internet.

 For the part where the lamp connects I want to have a double hinged neck to make the light more adjustable. My ideas for the design are here. Next class I will start making my designs on adobe illustrator.

 This was my first design for my lamp in adobe illustrator. I got to work a lot with changing the position of nodes to make this look as best as i could. All of my pieces from my preliminary drawings were there even though I made some pretty big changes. I hope that next class I will cut my design and put it together.

 This is what my first design looked like when I cut it out from the laser cutter. Some things that i immediately noticed were that there was no way the the holes in my hinges were going to hold screws, but also that I would not be able to get the ring to hold the light pieces on the piece to connect them to the base. However, Mr. D said to try to make it work so I did. One good part was that I really liked the way that he design for the stand looked.

 This is what my design looked like once I put everything together. It was a bit of a mess, the bottom slits to hold the base to the stand were too wide and also the the connectors were too long so it stood up to high. Also the screw holes were to big. However I got the ring connector of the light to the base on by cutting slits (more details later). That made it easy to slip the ring on to the top. This was the first time that I really had to make a lot of adjustments, and I realized this was going to be harder than I originally thought. Next class my goal is to make the changes that I said were messed up above.

 This was my second design of my lamp, it was essentially the same thing except I laser cut the slits into the top piece to allow the ring to slip on, and I used two stands to allow the stand to stay in the base more easily. Some changes I needed to make were to find a way to support the light bulb a t the top, and also to make the lamp more sturdy. This was one of the first chances I got to use screws as well as moving parts in this class. Next class I am going to work on perfecting the top part of my lamp.

 This next pictures shows a rough design for the top of my lamp and how i would get the light bulb to stay on. The light bulb had a clamp on the top, so I had that part attach to the larger ring on top, while the smaller ring on the bottom held to the rest of the lamp, with the little sticks on the outside being the connectors. However, I realized that the light bulb was to long to fit in the space between the big ring and the rest of the lamp, so I had to make the connector sticks longer to compensate.

 This picture is of my design for my final lamp, by this time I had found all of my problems with my creation and solved them. I had vastly improved my connection from the base to the light bulb, and from the stand to the base. This showcased my ability to take a project and try it out before taking it back to the drawing board and make connections to make it the best i possibly could. Next class I am going to come in from free block through flex through class to hopefully finish my product.

 This was the final base that I made for the project. It was out of 1/4 inch wood. For the base I got to learn how to use the CNC mill for the first time which was really cool. I did this so that I could make the base heavy to ensure that the lamp was sturdy. I also fixed to slots at the bottom so that the base and the stand slotted together cleanly. 

 These blades were what I used as the sticks to keep the big ring of the lamp connected to the small ring, but also had a bit more design on the end to make the product more aesthetically pleasing.

This was the final phase of my project, as making this final top was a real nightmare. I was running out of time to finish my product and everything about this top piece was working well, the hinges were good, the small ring slid onto the bendable base to keep it in place, and the big ring held the light bulb perfectly, however, I had a lot of trouble getting the blades stay in position around the two rings to hold them in place to look nice, so I had to use glue, and the rubber bands were there to hold while the glue dried. However, in the end it worked out.

 This is my final product for my lamp. I think it turned out looking pretty nice as through trial and error, I got everything to work out to the best of my ability, If i had the chance to make one final draft of the lamp, I would make the stand a little taller, the hinges a little tighter, and all the slot tighter, so that I did not need as much glue. However, I am proud that I finished as not many people in our class did, and I think that that is and achievement. Overall by doing this project I really honed my skills of trial and error as well as the fact that I got to uses things in the class that I had not really used before such as the CNC mill, moving parts, and screws, as well as a working light bulb.