Redesign Project - Introduction
For our redesign project we were instructed to create an object to help us with organization in our daily life, like a tool drawer or a storage device of some assortment.
Redesign Project - Concept
I did a little bit of thinking as to what I could create for this project, and I realized very quickly that as a guitarist I would need to make an item to help me with keeping the neck of my guitars off of my table when working on them. I quickly turned to making my design similar that of the design of a guitar cradle which would be custom made to fit my guitar's specifications (the radius of the neck of my guitar). Of course I didn't just make a guitar cradle, because that would be a little bit too simple. Instead I decided to add an extra feature that in my honest opinion actually quite useful! I added a small bin for storage on the side of the cradle to hold whatever I would need in there for when I am fixing my guitars.
My inventor file for the guitar stand. I had decided to round off the corners of the stand to give it a much less sharp feel and more of a high-quality look to it. The bin of the guitar stand is about 2 inches wide and 5 inches long, just enough to hold some of my tools or other items.
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A real world item for sale called a "guitar cradle" which is what I based my design off of. However I had made a few specifications on my design that are a lot more useful than this counterpart. Specifically the basket on the side of the guitar stand that I had added to hold my various tools, tuners, guitar picks etc.
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My finished guitar cradle turned out to be absolutely wonderful! I think that red was a good color choice. I immediately went downstairs to check and see if my guitar would fit in the cradle properly, and it turns out that it fits just perfectly! The storage bin was also a good choice here because I can fit my string-winder and some guitar picks (which have always been disorganized, so this definitely helps with that aspect), as well as maybe a tuner or my screwdrivers. The plastic is very strong and I am glad that I made the walls of the storage bin large enough so that it wouldn't break.
Summary
In summary, in this entire redesign project unit I got a better understanding of how to fabricate 3D objects that can help me in my daily life. I got reacquainted with inventor and MakerBot after a year and I would say that I remembered just about all of my teachings the previous year, which came in handy because otherwise it would most likely have taken a lot longer to get this project completed. This unit also helped sharpen my skills of transferring real-world measurements to digital measurements, because during this project I had to measure the radius of my guitar neck and apply it to the radius of my guitar stand to ensure that it would fit properly and work as intended. The measurement of my guitar's neck radius was quite a bit harder than expected as well. I couldn't just simply measure the radius of it with any ordinary ruler, I had to learn how to trace the shape of my guitar's neck on a piece of paper and then take the radius and convert it over to the inventor file. Overall, the unit helped me get even better at creating 3D-printed objects using inventor and MakerBot, and this time I had very little to no guidelines at all, so I also learned how to create my own objects purely from scratch, with just about no class help or guidelines on how my finished product should be.