diy
For this Project our assignment was to create a DIY everybody can build at home, using
common materials and hand tools. I knew right away that my DIY would be made out of
wood, as its easy to obtain and relatively easy to work with. I also wanted to build
something many people could use. To achieve this I decided it would be nice for the DIY
to have more than one appliance.
The "Buchstangenhocker" can serve as a wall mounted shelf for books, kitchen towels or
laundry. Taken from the wall it can be used as a chair to sit on the floor
with. Flipping it upside down turns it into a small step ladder or a little sideboard for
books.
Its made of 12mm Multiplex and 16 mm roundstock.
partypizzacutter
The assignment for this Project was to create something from materials we already had laying
around. For me it was this red bicycle-fork. Having just gotten a warranty replacement for it it
didn’t really have any purpose. Until this project came up. I had seen people put hubs with
a disc rotor in old forks, to use as a pizza cutter. But I was never satisfied by the
alignment of the brake rotor in the fork, and its size compared to the fork legs. However I did
like the idea of the blade being sturdily mounted, yet removable and having ball bearings.
So i set out to build just that. This cutter now cuts a regular pizza with only a quarter rotation. Hence the name: partypizzacutter.
analog modeling
For the analog modeling course in second semester we were asked to rebuild a product of our choice. We (Johannes Bromme, Benedikt Klotzbücher & me) decided on Apple's magic mouse. Which turned out to be harder than we initially thought. The curvature and the gap dimensions are what really make the magic mouse „magic“. So getting those right was crucial to the project and very time consuming. The mouse-body is made from hard modeling foam. The upper part is made from acrylic glass we bent in the oven. The rest of the project was taken up by sanding, spray painting and …sanding.
sackapult
The assignment for this project was to create our own game. For us (Johanna Schredl, Raphael Hemme & me) it was clear that we wouldn’t make a card game. We wanted to build a game that relied on motor skills rather than on strategy. We had different approaches from the get-go and decided to combine multiple of them in a game box. Something you could whip out on those rainy sunday afternoons. The base of the game are catapults that you shoot little sand filled sacks with. With the provided plates you have 4 different game modi. In the instructions the players are encouraged to modify and add their own rules, like you did when you were a kid and branches were pistols.
