Phone Stand Project
A project that done at my own time during summer break as a way to practice Computer Aided Design and gain more experience in 3D design and printing. This included ~50 phone stands being made across 8 different marks, and counting. This is just a simple phone stand mainly of my own design, aimed for helping my family and friends with being able to watch their phones hands-free.
Year
2023-Ongoing
Task: A Human Friendly Tool
This project began as an idea for myself to make a good way of holding my phone while using a wireless charger, and it became a good way that I could help my family and friends with a more convenient way of using their digital devices. This project required a lot of iterations to achieve it’s goal, as it relied on trial and error, and then human feedback to make proper improvements. This involved 8 different marks, improving in both user-friendliness and production , a main limiter to consistent quality and production rate. Some of the earlier models can be seen on the left, and the final models were well received by my family and friends who received them, and still being used till this day. This project is a good demonstration on the strengths of CAD and 3D printing, allowing for rapid prototyping and design iteration at very low cost, making a project like this easier than more traditional methods, and possible for an amateur to make decent quality work.
Process: Iterative Design
To make a well working phone stand requires a lot of experience in the matter, or, make improvements off a base design with user feedback until it’s working well enough. As I am no subject matter expert, I went with the second option. The design went through 8 different iterations, and the first problem to tackle was to have a something that allows it to change the angle the phone is held at.
Results and Conclusion
Coil winding is the method where cooper coils are made, and they are very important in electronics, as inductors and motors needs copper coils to function. There are many machines that already exists, but they all involved human interaction to some degree, with some require large amount of human action, to mount the spool, to set the wire, to cut the wire at the end, and to fix the coil, etc, and many with greater degrees of automation. This project aims to prototype a machine with a greater degree of automation, to serve as a replacement of a current machine with a fictional company, and to determine whether or not it would benefit the company to buy the new machine.