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The greeting box by cade & nick
The greeting box by cade & nick
Imagine you're hosting a party - your guests are stressed from finals and you want to share some holiday cheer or a fun message with them. Introducing the greeting box - press the button and a fun message appears, sure to bring cheer to even the grumpiest of grinches.
Designing the product
Designing the product
This project started from very ambitious beginnings. We originally wanted to be cheeky and have a flexible middle finger as a bistable mechanism. Although we recognized that this would showcase our fun senses of humor, we also recognized that the middle finger idea would not present a profession piece of work to fit in our portfolios. Through various evolutions and ideas we eventually landed on the greeting button, a fun and tactile way to provide a message to your friends and family.
The first prototype we created during our shift of direction was a prototype that used two stable states to shift from up to down. Initially we considered creating a box that had a spring loaded panel that opened and closed, with the open and closed position being the two stable positions.
Next we tried to give the case more meaning. Cade likes to collect records and he wanted a push-push drawer in which to store his records. The second picture depicts the design direction in which we wanted to go. We wanted a wooden dowel to travel along a track which was pulled forward and down by tension springs to force the dowel along the track.
We soon realized after extensive prototyping that we overscoped the project, so we turned to YouTube for inspiration. We found a few videos and decided to take this one for inspiration. We initially tried to scale down the video, but wanted to use a bearing in the slot and did not have any bearing for the track being scaled down
Finally our project evolved to what it currently is. Please view the media below to see all of our drawing and other videos of processes.
Carousel of all of the additional sketches
IMG_3153.MOVTrack Inspiration
Exploded view of a prototype idea
IMG_3238.movTrack in Action
Making the product
Making the product
Digital Engineering Files, Time Table & Bill Of Materials
Digital Engineering Files, Time Table & Bill Of Materials
Engineering Files
Engineering Files
Exploded View
Video of Exploded view
Engineering drawing for the top block - the stop which prevents the slider from flying up and keeps the springs preloaded.
Engineering drawing for the slider. Specific geometry needed so that the slider catches correctly and follows the track. Additional dimensions are excluded in the drawing for ease of readability. Kept the radius of the turns to show that the turns were intentional.
Time Table
Time Table
Bill of Materials
Bill of Materials
Bill Of Materials.docxReflections
Reflections
Reflection by Cade Crow
Reflection by Nick Abram
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