All components designed in SolidWorks.
Wooden CNC routed top and base, personalized 3D printed cylinder, copper clad circuit board with CNC circuit traces and surface mount devices soldered on.
Wrapped in a seamless 360 degree image of Boston Public Garden’s footbridge, my lithophane lamp is a product of a guided design project intended for exposure to software and fabrication methods, including SolidWorks, the CNC router, basic DC circuits, soldering, and 3D printing.
Writer’s Room, Science Library, Wesleyan University (Ongoing)
Inch by Inch was a project focused on creating a walking mechanism with two motors. Inspired by the movement of an inchworm, my group and I aimed to make the mechanical inchworm aesthetically elegant yet simple-looking. Part of the goal was to have a shell wrapped around the entire mechanism to imitate the skin of a real inchworm, which is what I mainly focused on.
I designed the red shell in SolidWorks and 3D printed it using TPU because of the material's flexibility. The initial designs for the shell referenced origami prismatic structures. I also designed the cam and follower mechanism, exhibited with an L-shaped leg inside of the boxes, that moved asynchronously so the first box of the body could "inch" forward and pull the second box along. The boxes, middle section and legs were all designed in SolidWorks, made with MDF and laser cut.
Additionally, I soldered wires to increase their length and accommodate the Inchworm's prolonged movement.