Student Work

For the final project, I want to try and make the necklace pendant from the movie ‘The Illusionist’. After I first saw that movie, roughly ten years ago, I really wanted the necklace that was in the movie. Even though that was a really long time ago, every time I see that movie I still like…

Designing my prototype has allowed me to look much deeper into the overall design of my box. Although I did not completely answer the question of “what design goal am I striving for with my jewelry box?” I feel as though the comments and constructive criticism both classmates and Professor Hertzberg offered have been very helpful.…

I challenge you to name one person who hasn’t look up at night an wondered what is outside our atmosphere. Space has always drawn my interest and I don’t go one day thinking about how we could access it easier or find other objects that harbor life just like our earth. These reasons are why…

For this project i intend to make a lamp out of wood and stainless steel. I would like to get a stainless steel sheet or tube to manufacture this out of. This will be the inside structure of the lamp. For the prototype i have a utensil holder which demonstrates how the inner structure will…

I have been conceptualizing this project since last fall. Its an attempt to satisfy my desires for a backpack that I truly love. I am not trying to make the ‘best’ backpack ever invented, but one that satisfies my needs and one that is right for me. I want to use an Asian aesthetic with a minimalist/modern approach.…

Neither is metal. Go deeper. I saw some excellent expressions of aesthetics in presentations yesterday, and I also saw students struggling to commit to, let alone express an aesthetic. Wood and metal are merely materials. Once formed, all artifacts have an aesthetic. Aesthetics bring meaning to the artifact, and this can work on many levels.…

Video Vision: My vision for the project was is to build something elegant, simple and secure. Being a mechanical engineer I can’t bring myself to make something that is not useful so I would also like to have the jewelry box be useful in storing jewelry. I’d also like the jewelry box to be secure…

Hunter Miller

Inspiration For my main project I thought about bringing something new and unique to the table from my culture. The inspiration comes from inveterate arabic architecture and design. It is known to come in patterns and different appealing structures. The following are some pictures demonstrating it(1) Figure 1:Example of design Figure 2: Example 2 of…

For my tie and belt rack, I’ve chosen to use mostly wood in order to adhere to my Organic aesthetic. The spin wheel will be made from a section of an actual tree.   I cut a section from a tree near my house and it is around 9 or 10 inches in diameter. This…

Introduction: I was talking about my project with my dad, just brainstorming, when he gave me the suggestion to build him a heartbeat sensor that he wears on his wrist that he can use while working out.   He wanted something that would indicate when his heart rate was outside of a certain range.  …

As I near the end of my undergraduate education at CU Boulder, I look back at nostalgia. I want to create a pop up book of meaningful days I’ve throughout college in Boulder. Sort of like an origami journal or diary. My top four constraints (because I can’t think of a fifth) are time, patience,…

I plan to use a similar steampunk-type aesthetic in my final project. The water wheel will be two steel gears and the building and side panels of the base will be sheet steel. The frame for the base will be made of 1/2″ square tubing. Welding will be the primary process of assembly, but it…

My project again was born out of necessity. I used to have a lamp that held all of my necessary desk items. This lamp broke. Since then the thing I miss most having on my desk at home is the pens and pencils. Since I am a pretty organized guy, I wanted to make myself a…

For my project I have decided to make another iteration of my homemade Saxophone. I am going to try and make this much more similar to an actual saxophone than my upcycle version. However, a Saxophone is very complex with a lot of dynamic components. Top 5 Constraints. Materials for springs and buttons Measuring the…

I have decided to make a candle holder that has a hexagonal shape, on the sides it has different designs from my inspiration in the last post. The constrains are the following: How to come up with the specific designs to use How to cut the designs Where to acquire material from(colored glass/plastic) Rotation mechanism…

I am still planning on trying to create the solar system to fit on my desk. After thinking a little more about the project and how I want to accomplish it, I am planning on implementing a steampunk/metallic type of aesthetic. The constraints that I see at the moment are as follows: Time: Time will…

I have already instigated a design change due to constraints — I have chosen to make more of a Japanese jewelry box with a couple of hidden compartments. I made this decision over creating a mechanical puzzle mostly because of the time constraint. Often our most thought-intensive work happens at the last-minute, since, inevitably, things…

Time: Seeing as the design review is next week and the project is due not terribly long after that time will be the biggest obstacle for my project. Size: I want it to be large enough, but the material cost gets much higher as I make it bigger. Cost: I want to stay within a…

Budget – I plan to use some pretty expensive wood so that it is naturally beautiful. Ideally something like Mahogany these woods can be expensive so hopefully, I can get enough wood for my project. 2. Skill – I plan to do some pretty advanced woodworking that I am going to need help with. I want…

I have changed my main project idea slightly to incorporate more of my steel/metal aesthetic that I used in my upcycle project and shifted the scope to be not a GOT inspired clockwork building, but to be another metal scene that incorporates metal and water with moving parts in an organic way. Specifically, I plan…

My project is to create a Harley Davidson heart rate watch for my dad when he works out.  It will have 3 LEDs to display when he needs to increase, remain at, or decrease his heart rate.  For my heart rate watch, I have run into several constraints: 1.Cost The project will use Arduino components…

For my final project, I will be making a cup holder that attaches to my snowboard. I have several ideas for what I want it to function and look like in the end, but that comes with some constraints. My first constraint is what materials to use for the cup holder. I would like the…