Summing Up 2019

The two projects we worked on for this class were the upcycling project and the final project. For the upcycling project, I chose to upcycle scrap steel and create bookends.…

Final Project (P1) – Kinetic Motion

Link to the presentation: Click HERE to Take you to the Presentation Overall description and photos, then details of what you have made: CAD drawings, fabrication description, costs vs budget,…

Main Project Final Stretch Progress

As of right now, I have my hex bolt, spacers, shaft, acrylic, and wood. I will proceed in cutting the acrylic tomorrow and turning down some of the spacers to…

Construction Timeline: Kinetic Motion

For my final project, I am creating a kinetic motion machine that serves no functional purpose. I have chosen only to create something based on a visual aesthetic. Already have:…

Design Review Report: Kinetic Sculpture

Overview of my aesthetic: My final design project has a kinetics/movement aesthetic. I got a lot of feedback on my aesthetic, and felt the need to dive a little deeper.…

Main Project – Top Five Kinetic Constraints

Aesthetics – The overall goal of this project is to make a dynamic, aesthetically pleasing object. This is a constraint because it eliminates many things that have a practical use,…

Main Project Inspiration – Kinetic Motion

As one of our requirements, we were asked to make the final project dynamic. So, I researched the definition of dynamic vs. kinetic since I was interested in making an…

Personal Skill Sets

What I learned in Engineering/Here’s what I’ve got: As an engineer at CU Boulder, we all take the same classes, all do the homework, and all complete similar projects. However,…

Upcycle Presentation Post – Book Ends

The URL for my 9min. presentation is.. My overall purpose for this project was to create something that could meet the requirements of this class, but be used in my…

Aesthetics Game – Qipao Footwear

Contributors Include: Clare Bork, Hadeel Al Gallaf, and Shen Shu We were assigned with choosing an aesthetic and figuring out what it represented. For our group, we chose Chinese Qipao…

UpCycle Inspiration/Progress

The post that I made last week spoke a little about my progress in decision making, but more about my inspiration. Referencing my previous post, my inspiration spurred from a…

Up-Cycle Progress: Book Ends

We spend a lot of time reading and I’m sure everyone has that one shelf of books that is either held up by another book or a different random object.…

Aesthetic Exploration: Swimwear

[1] Thinking about the snow outside, getting into a hot tub becomes a relaxing thought. However, something that doesn’t cross the mind is what to wear. The general assumption is…