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 pennies. I used my original idea of creating a a sprouting plant in a glass bottle and merged that with my penny art to create…

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 their designs from my classes I have taken, and the amazing outcome that can be produced when an engineer factors in the aesthetic. In many…

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 had to do with sleek curves and round looking designs, similar to the space age aesthetic of the 1960s. My guillotine will have sharp, defined…

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 my love of history and possibly affected by my recent trip to New York in which I saw several pieces of art and sculptures at…

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 my time this weekend to finish the bulk of the building. I will maybe try to add some paint if I can find a cheaper,…

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 that country’s history that is fun to look at. One of the objects that goes hand in hand with this time period is the guillotine.…

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, my top constraint will be money. No project will ever have unlimited funds and due to this constraint, the amount of materials, the type of…

History is littered with interesting and intriguing objects. Being a person who is into history and finds the past intriguing, I decided to try and take an object from the past and turn it into something that could be useful today. My idea was the Guillotine Vegetable Chopper. The inspiration for this came from watching…

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 proficiency in SolidWorks and knowing how to look at a problem and attack it in a logic format. I like being creative when designing things…

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 placement like the final product, they can create wonderful designs. As discussed in the video presentation, the final design was chosen to look like a…

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 and was commonly used in transactions. Today however, if given three cents back in change, many people will not take it or just donate it…

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 to make some sort of plant based project that would grow within a glass bottle, as seen in the picture below. However, after contemplating the…

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 concern. Though the players wear a variety of safety pads and other garments, this post will focus on the helmets. Since the helmet’s conception, it…