Summing up 2019

This post will contain a brief summary of what I made this semester and links to all of my previous posts.   For my upcycle project, I chose to upcycle…

Final Report 2

As not only this class comes to a close, but my undergraduate education does as well, I can clearly see the disconnect some engineers have when it comes to creating…

20th Century Design

I am making a guillotine vegetable chopper with the French Patriotic aesthetic. This contrasts highly with many of the design movements of the 20th century. For example, the Futurism movement…

Final Report Part 1

Final Project Inspiration I cannot pinpoint a single moment that gave me the inspiration to create my vegetable chopper guillotine. However, the inspiration for my creation can be credited to…

Final Stretch for the Guillotine

According to my original timeline, my project should be done by now however, due to issues with the wood I had last week I wasn’t able to quite start. However,…

Construction Timeline

My construction timeline is pretty straightforward. Due to myself being enrolled in four other classes which each have their own project due in the next four weeks, I am utilizing…

Design Review Guillotine Vegetable Chopper

The inspiration I had to make this was that I enjoy looking back at historical events and the craziness that is the French Revolution is a period in time in…

Final Project Constraints

To refresh, I am going to be making a vegetable chopper with the aesthetics of a classic French Revolution era guillotine. With this project, as is common with eery project,…

Skill Sets and Aspirations: Shalil Jain

As a mechanical engineer major here at CU, I posses many of the same skills that the University has taught me as well as other fellow students. I have a…

Upcycle Final Report: Pennies

Utilization of pennies in an art installation can be extremely pleasing due to the varying colors of copper and the shape of the penny. When used in a linear pattern…

Upcycle Inspiration: Pennies

As the years drag on, the value of a penny has increasingly gone down as natural inflation decreases the value of a note. In the 1950’s a penny had value…

Upcycle Progress: Pennies

It took me a while to figure out what I wanted to do for this project and a couple ideas were bouncing around in my head. I was originally going…

Aesthetic Explorations: Football Helmets

The National Football League (NFL) has been around for almost a hundred years and in a heavy contact sport such as American football, safety of the players is an obvious…