Night Light Design:
At the start of this project we visited the Monarch School and gathered information and subtle details on our assigned buddy. We started by looking at the information we gathered and we made a concept design based on that. We went to the Monarch School once more to show our buddies the concept designs and listened to their opinions. We needed to change our initial design since our buddy changed their mind. Since we were already there we sketched up a design he would like and got his approval. Once we had our design we created a model out of four sheets of paper to give us an idea of the layers we used. We then made a prototype using cardboard and the appropriate layers. Next, we used an application called InkScape to essentially give our laser cutter directions for cutting the wood pieces. We got our InkScape file approved and had our pieces cut. We needed to refine our pieces a couple of times and we were frustrated about that, but once we recieved our final design we were really proud of the outcome.
At the start of this project we visited the Monarch School and gathered information and subtle details on our assigned buddy. We started by looking at the information we gathered and we made a concept design based on that. We went to the Monarch School once more to show our buddies the concept designs and listened to their opinions. We needed to change our initial design since our buddy changed their mind. Since we were already there we sketched up a design he would like and got his approval. Once we had our design we created a model out of four sheets of paper to give us an idea of the layers we used. We then made a prototype using cardboard and the appropriate layers. Next, we used an application called InkScape to essentially give our laser cutter directions for cutting the wood pieces. We got our InkScape file approved and had our pieces cut. We needed to refine our pieces a couple of times and we were frustrated about that, but once we recieved our final design we were really proud of the outcome.