Pull Along Toy
Pull Along Toy - AS91057 - 6 credits
Think back to victorian England (late 19th century), with coal and steam-engines.
Now imagine electricity never being discovered and instead steam-powered machines were constructed with unrealistic proportions.
Imagine flying ships, steam-powered robot insects, humongous submarines and mechanical devices.
What is Steampunk?
Mood Boards
Task 1
Work in teams of 2 or 3 and create a MOOD BOARD to illustrate SteamPunk.
Make sure you include a wide variety of things like clothing, goggles, hats, household objects, vehicles, posters, art work, patterns, furniture, everyday objects, art work .
Make a folder on your Google Drive (one for the team) - share this folder with everyone in the team and your teacher.
Everyone in the team collect images for the mood board and put them in the folder.
Create the mood board by printing off the pictures you have collected and sticking them onto the large boards each team have been given.
What are Gears?
A gear or cogwheel is a rotating machine part having cut like teeth, or cogs, which mesh with another toothed part to transmit power and movement.
Geared devices can change the speed, power, and direction of a power source.
What is a Pull Along Toy?
Task 3
Find some of your own pictures of pull along toys. Put them into a presentation. Make a couple of notes about what it is made from, what kind of movement does it have, what design it is.
Use the template opposite to help you with this task. It has an example completed on the first page for you to look at.
Warm Ups?
MashUp - Warm Ups!!
Task 4
Choose one object card.
Choose one inspiration card
Draw 5 different ideas for what the object will look like if it was like the inspiration picture.
Specifications
Who is your user?
Task 5
Thinking about who is going to use your product helps you to understand what specifications you need to list for your designs.
What is a specification?
After you have asked all the important questions about the design requirements from your client / user, you can now write a design specification. The specification is a list of factors that the design must satisfy. This information can be used when drawing ideas, to ensure that all the clients needs are considered.
Design Ideas
Concept Sketches
Task 6
Design sketches - lots of them!!! - you can use pictures from the internet to copy to start you off with animal shapes and gears - draw flat / in 2D.
Choose an animal from the list
Draw a combination of the animal and gears and cogs.
Use the guide boxes so you don't go too big on your designs.
(you don't need to use these pictures, you can find your own )
Moving Along
Task 7
Now you have to work out which part of your designs are going to move when you pull them along.
Draw 2 of your designs (change / improve them from your first ideas) in 2D and put arrows on them to show which parts are going to move and in which direction.
Planning
Time Planning
Task 9
To make sure that you get all of the jobs done in the time that you have for this project, you need to do some time planning.
Here is a link to the Google Drawing here.
You need to make a copy of it and complete filling it in with the jobs that need completing.
Full Scale Drawing
Task 10
Draw all the parts you need for your designs out flat in 2D.
Make a parts list for each design so you can see what is needed to make it.
Models and Measurements
Task 11
You will be making models out of card to test your designs. You need to get the measurements correct so everything fits together and moves like it should.
