In the winter it is really dark when you come back from school. These torches will help you see in the dark so you can put a number code, or put the key in the key hole etc. This could be useful for other different ways. It wouldn't be too bright and strong like the picture on the left, but it might come in handy someday. It is good because when the LED lights don't work, you can go buy a new battery that is kind of cheap.
Restrictions are set so that solving the design problem is made easier for you.
You should therefore consider the restrictions set out below:
The material that is recommended is Acrylic, however you can use any laser cut material
The finish of your torch must be of the highest quality
You must use the electronic components provided
You must provide a means of affixing a key / keys
Your torch must have no sharp edges
Your torch should not exceed the dimensions (sizes) given. These are shown in the drawing
The hole shown (dotted line) is for the slim-line coin cell battery.
This is my poster that explains the materials for the torch. I haven’t finished because there is a blank space in the right hand corner. Although I didn't finish it, I didn't get more time since we had to do other things too. I think I need to learn to work faster and I think I could have put more information about the materials. The layout could have been better since there is some space left and I could have spaced it out. In my opinion, the photos are OK, but as I have said before the information part might need more improving-especially the one about the QTC.
I have practiced to draw straight lines and draw the crate. The crate is roughly the size of how big the torch would be. After I finished my sketch I fine-lined my sketch with a fine-line pen. There are a lot of different fine-line pens, 0.3, 0.5, 0.8. The bigger the number the thicker the pen. I used the 0.8 for the outline to make it stand out and used the 0.3 and 0.5 pens for the details inside.
Sketch the crate, draw the design and don't forget to plan the title which is 'Design Ideas'. When you're drawing the crate just sketch straight lines like I have practiced before. The design needs the button, the screw and the ledge for the LED light.
If you have successfully done step 1, you're on to
fine-lining! Use the thicker pens for the outline, the thinner ones for the inside. Don't forget to fine-line the title.
Now start rendering. If you don't know what rendering is, it is a more advanced version of coloring. You start with the darker tones on the outside and you gradually color it to make it a lighter tone. When you are rendering, go over it to get it smooth. Each solid shape has a different color.
For the sketch I used ghost lines that are light so I can rub them out later. The crate has the lighter lines than the design because I sometimes confuse myself with the crate and the design. Most of the designs have the same size as the screw, button and the LED light holder. I have changed the size of the screws in the design that looks like a fish. I wanted to take a new picture because of the headphones, but by that time, I have already fine-lined the sketch.
I fine-lined my ideas with fine-line pens. As you can see, the outline is thicker than the details inside the drawings. This is because the design can be very delicate and if you use a thick pen to fine-line it you might not be able to see the designs. Also if you use a thin pen to fine-line the outline, the design won't stand out a lot. Below this is the picture of the thickness of the fine-line pens.
I didn't finish the rendering but I can finish it next lesson. I have found it hard to render although I have practiced a lot of times. I struggle to make the coloring smooth and to have that gradual effect when I'm rendering from the darker tone to the lighter tone. I have done rendering since Year 3 when I was younger and I think I have improved a lot since then.
This is one of my favorite designs, a ginger cat. I love animals so I decided to do one. The whiskers are the cut-out parts and so are the ears.
This is a fish as you can tell from the picture above. I was running out of ideas and a fish came into my mind so I started drawing it.
Lastly, this is a cat just like my other favorite design although this one has a body.
I think I have been a thinker since I had to think about what the designs will be and what color it should be.
I have usen this a lot throughout my DT lessons and creating this websites and these sentences, it links to this learner profile.
I have been reflective since I looked back on the practice sketches and the previous designs and looked at what I can do to make it better or different.
I have been globally minded because I got inspired by others' art. I can search on the internet for simple ideas for inspirations and use that design and make it my style. Another reason for this learner profile is that I took other people's advice, for example my teacher or my friends in school.
I have finished rendering. After the color was added, the last 3 designs looks so much better than with no color. Although I have said above that the fish, the ginger cat and the brown cat is my favorite designs, I think the color changed my mind. The icy blue colored designs is my favorite and so is the brown cat, as usual.
This is my title. I haven't colored it yet. I will make the top of the lightblub yellow and the bottom part gray.
I have finished the coloring. As I said, I have colored the top yellow and the bottome gray. Since it is a lightbulb, I have decided to do a color surround for the top of the lightbulb because looks like it is glowing.
I forgot to rub out the pencil construction lines so I am doing it right now. My rubber got kind of dirty since it rubbed some of the colors of so I had to render the lighter parts again.
This is my finished artwork. It has the designs and the title, fine-lined and rendered. I put a color block and a color surrond around my 2 favorite designs. As I have said above, the icy blue geometric design is my favorite and so is the chocolate brown cat. I have a sky blue color surrond for the geometric design because it fits the design colors and put a color block behind the chocolate brown cat because I think it makes it more dramatic.
Mine
The first one is the quick draw of my icy cold design. The other one's are the evolution of the design.
Jack's
I turned Jack's original quick draw design to a new one. It is the second one.
Charlie's
I made Bella's evolution of Reiko's evolution of Amelia's evolution. It is the last one.
Leo's
I turned Bella's quick draw of Reiko's quick draw of Leo's original design. It is the 3rd one.
I have started off with my original icy blue design and I have started to make developments. As you see, the first 2 developments only show the part where I developed because it will take more time to draw the whole design.
I used the 0.8, 0.5 and 0.3 fineline pen for the finelining. The thickness of each is shown obove if you are really interested. I obviously used to thicker pens for the outline and the thinner ones for the inside and the detail.
I have done my rendering although I forgot to take pictures of the rendering process. As you see in the final design I gave it the relfection of the light.
I started with the pencil drawing, After I started did the rendering.
This is the first layer of the torch. I also added the relfection of the light again.
I'm halfway through this process. I have cut the background out and now I need to cut the cut-outs.
This is the first layer. As you can see I added the lighter lines to show the reflection of light. I had to use a different color because I didn't have my color pencils today so I picked the most similar color I could find.
Now I'm making the 2nd layer. I traced the 1st layer and connected the corners. After that I will be coloring.
I have finished coloring. I used a blue that is darker than the first layer. Now I will be cutting it out.
I have finished the 2nd layer after cutting it out. I found the battery holder hard since it has a circle. Obviously it was the same for the screwholes but they are smaller. Next is the 3rd layer, the last one.
I used a slightly lighter blue color than the 2nd layer but darker than the first. It is the same shape as the 2nd layer, so I traced it.
I have finished cutting the last layer, I forgot that I need to stick the glue on the side that I colored, so I had to color the other side. Now I will stick all 3 layers.
I think the whole card model turned out very well. The shades of blue gave cold and icy vibes and the reflection of light was really cool. Although it was good, I have some negative things. I forgot to make a keyhole in the card model so when I do my final design, I will be sure to add that. Anothet thing is, like last time, I was a little slow so I may have been a bit behind.
This is my design of my torch in Onshape. Although I already planned everything out, I didn't know that the keyring can only stretch up to 2 layers, not 3. So I deleted a part from the bottom so the keyring hole goes through only 2 layers. Below there is a picture of the bottom layer. Although this is a color scheme I thought would be best, I have some other choices to see if they can change my mind. It is below the picture of the bottom layer, so you need to scroll down a bit.
This is the bottom layer that I cut the part out. I purposely cropped the photo to zoom in the cut out. Although I could've just cut the top layer out, but I thought that people would focus more on the front than the back. Plus, the front already has some cutouts.
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What's your favorite color scheme, which one would you choose. I chose number 3 because I thought that number 1 (the original) was to saturated. But the problem is that I just realized that we are going to use acrylic to color these layers and we have limited colors... which is straight up dissapointing but I will try and find a blue less saturated and a little lighter.
By looking at this, the card model looks to different from the final design and the CAD CAM. It's probably because I changed a lot in the final design and I obviously copied the final design for my CAD and thankfully they look similar (except the CAD is more wider).
This is my final design (I forgot to take pictures of the steps). There is a view of the front, the side and the back. The title is a bit smudged as it was smudged as it was drying. But looking at it now, I wish the keyring hole was bigger and on the left side. That is why I'm gonna change that when I do my CAD on Onshape.
This is the result of my torch CAM. Yes, I can see that this is DEFINITELY NOT the color scheme I wanted. The middle layer is orange-so it doesn't really work well with the blue. Also the blues are saturated, which I don't really mind but wasn't really expecting the orange middle layer.
I'm tapping right now!
This is the mark of the tapping.
I finished tapping but I didn't get a chance to countersink. In my opinion I think that countersinking is harder than tapping. To be honest, the tapping was kind of easy although it was a little hard to hold the torch without my hand hurting.
Countersinking.
Checking where the drill is going.
Hold the jig so it stays still.
Checking again after countersinking a little bit.
This step is called cross filing. Cross filing makes the torch soft and comfortable to hold.
To cross file, you need to make friction with the file and the torch. You know you're making friction if there's dust, you can hear a scratchy sound and the surface should turn cloudly.
I have put the screws on-now this is what it looks like.
I am filing the edges with a rectangular file.
As you can see, there is dust. That shows that work is being done.
Wet and Dry Paper is something like sand paper. The papers we are going to be using is 400, 600, 800 and 1000. We start from the smallest number which is the roughest to the highest numver which is the smoothest. We start off with a dry paper and after that we put the paper in water to make it wet. We use it wet and use it dry again. We continue this until we get to 1000. By then, the torch will be really smooth!
After the step of wet & dry paper, we move on to polishing. Firstly, we get some kind of cloth (I used a sock), then we put the polish on the piece of cloth. We rub the cloth on to the torch to make it shiny. If scratches are visible or it is not foggy, you need to repeat the steps of filing and wet and dry paper.
When I thought I was ready to polish, I wasn't. I realized scratches were visible so I needed to restart from the filing step. I also had to repeat the wet & dry paper step which was kind of annoying.
I finally finished my torch. This is the front view. As you can see, the battery and the LED. The LED is rainbow so it changed color.
Credits to Bella
Credits to Bella
In the Dark
In the Dark