Saturday, 12 December 2015

Criteria D - Evaluating

Peer Evaluation 



Self Evaluation 



Final TinkerCAD Reflection 



Throughout this journey of using TinkerCAD, I have learnt many things that I didn't know before, I didn't only learn how to use TinkerCAD but I also learned improved at using blogger. This year, I must admit, I used blogger way more than I did last year and now I can officially say that I am a sort of pro, I practiced using all the editing options and I even learnt how to upload videos. On TinkerCAD, I learnt how to move shapes, change the size of shapes, re-create pictures and objects and even create my own project. If I had to re-create my project, I would certainly spend more time on creating my designs on TinkerCAD and try to use a variety of shapes and explore further but overall I am really happy on how my project turned out. 

As I said I am really proud of my work and I actually didn't think both models could turn out like this, especially because I am not even close to being a pro with TinkerCAD and still find it hard to work with it and create proper designs and not just shapes. However I do indeed believe that both of my products are good products and I am not ashamed to show people and tell them how happy I am that they turned out like this. I have still kept to my specification on the target audience and I feel like these to phone holders are perfect for any gender and any age who has a phone and even the price isn't to high or to low. From my beginning primary research and my on experience, I truly think that my products could help people with the problem of losing or forgetting their phone, but at the same time help them with the major problem of tangled earphones that everyone deals with everyday. I  enjoyed this journey of discovering and using TinkerCAD, I complete this unit and reflection knowing that throughout these all these weeks, I have learnt something new about technology and about the world. This has helped me understand how products are initially though of, planned and created, it has given me another perspective of the world I live in today. In the future, I will certainly look back at my work and maybe even try and create something new with TinkerCAD.   

Wednesday, 9 December 2015

Criteria C - Creating the Solution

Final TinkerCAD Model 1 - Non Technological Version 






Final TinkerCAD Model 2 - Technological Version 


Description of Model 1 

Model 1 is the non - technological model, it is the phone holder that has no techy or electronic abilities. Its only abilities are to hold your phone and hold your earphones, hence the price. The white paraboloid is used to wrap your earphones around so they don't get tangled and you don't waste time having to untangle them, resulting in a frustrated person. I used boxes to create the phone stand and placed parts on the sides to make sure the phone is secure and safe and especially won't fall and break. The dangling heart is to add a pop of colour and decoration, but of course if the customer doesn't want to add it then he/she can take it off. Model 1 can also be attached to the wall or furniture so it doesn't take up so much space - this was requested by one of my peers. This model is suitable for every phone, e.g. Apple, Android, Microsoft, Sony etc.

Description of Model 2 

Model 2 is the techy - electronic version of the phone holder. This version can tell the time, hold your phone, hold your earphones and play music so it's like a speaker and phone holder merged together. The first yellow button is the switch on/off, then the doughnut round thing is for the volume, so you can turn it up or turn it down by twisting the button. The other buttons are for  the music and changing the music option and again the white paraboloid is used to wrap the earphones around so they don't get tangled. As well the phone holder place is secured with extra parts on the sides and in the bottom of the holder so the phone doesn't slip off and fall to the ground.

Overall Reflection 

I am really proud of my designs and how they both turned out although I actually prefer model 1 - in my opinion it turned out better and it looked more like my original design. Model 2 was indeed harder to create because of all the detail that I had to pay attention to, all the buttons that were in my hand drawn design had to go onto the TinkerCAD creation, which I must admit was harder than I had thought. Therefore model 2 doesn't exactly look like my original design (the hand-drawn one). I couldn't exactly re-create my idea of model 2 onto TinkerCAD because of the lack of shapes and capability I had on using TinkerCAD, I feel like if I had practiced or completed more lessons on TinkerCAD, my design could've been more complex and it would've looked more interesting. However it wasn't a complete and total failure because it did have things on it that I planned in the beginning and it doesn't look very very different from my original idea. The design still has many things that I wanted it to have, for example, it still shows the time, you can still play music from it, the shape has remained the same and earphones can still be wrapped around the white paraboloid.

Model 1, on the other hand, resembles my design perfectly, I feel like I succeed into creating the phone holder exactly how I wanted it to look like in my head. It has got all the details that my sketch has, and I even managed to add the little heart decoration onto it. Model 1 has the place to put your phone, it has the place the wrap your earphones and you can even hang/ stick it to a wall, desk etc. Exactly how I imagined it! This model has met all my specifications and makes me really happy to say that when I showed some of my peers, they said that if it were ever to go out on the shelves of shops, they would buy it. The only thing that is different from my design is the decoration/addition that I wanted to add to the phone holder. In my sketch, I wanted the decoration/addition to be zodiac signs but unfortunately I couldn't get any so my plan B was to opt for a pretty shape instead. So after deciding between heart and diamond, I finally came to the conclusion that my choice was going to be the heart, hence the heart on the picture above.