Summing It All Up

During my final semester at the University of Colorado this course, Aesthetics in Design provided an introductory immersion into the world of design. Each week I wrote a blog post…

Final Stretch Progress: Light Cylinder

This week I have been focusing on the servo motor to cylinder interface. I designed the housing to be as simple as possible and it can also account for large tolerance…

Construction Timeline: Light Sculpture

I have begun building my final project. I knew the machine shop was going to be busy after spring break so I decided to get all my turning done before…

Friday Before Spring Break

The friday before spring break we played the aesthetics game and I had to draw a Werbund Speaker

20th Century Design Movements Comparison

This weeks blog post will compare the current aesthetic in my ambient lighting sculpture based on tropical nature, minimalism and future tech with 20th century design movements more specifically Art…

Main Project Design Review

For my final project I decided to build an ambient lighting device it will be in the form of a cylinder. LED’s will be placed near the bottom emitting light…

Top 5 Constraints

Manufacturability: Whatever design I wish to pursue has to be manufacturable with CU’s resources either from the ITLL or the Idea Forge. I put this category at number one because…

Main Project Inspiration

The product I will design will be an intersection of multiple ideas. What I know is that I want to use a Raspberry Pi to keep driving my computational knowledge.…

Skills and Career Aspiration

Like many of the students in this class my skills are what you would typically expect from a senior mechanical engineering student. However, everybody has strengths and weaknesses I believe…

Upcycle Report: “Light Box”

Link to my presentation slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1DM0aey_1q6RIds068RZOfYfKH4jdVQJKWEgBVGR2gP8/edit?usp=sharing Link to my video presentation : https://youtu.be/V3vBUwSVPpM                For my Upcycling project I decided to start the design process by first picking the materials.…

Upcycle Progress/Inspiration

This week has been hands on for me, I have been making my upcycling project but I don’t know the meaning of it just yet. I built a cardboard frame…

Upcycling Paper Towel Cardboard Tubes

As a warm up assignment we are recycling low value waste into aesthetic pleasing objects. Deciding what to do isn’t always easy however for me this time around it was…

Aesthetic Exploration: Topology Optimized Designs

Recently I have been hooked by “Topology Optimized” designs I think their aesthetics can be very attractive and the engineering behind them is very interesting. Topology optimization is a branch…