Well, almost. We still have a trip up to Wisconsin next week to deliver our final presentation, but the lion’s share of the work is done for this semester. I can’t write about what we did exactly but you can read more about the photos I took of our final models over on my photography [...]
My industrial design class just completed their semester-long power equipment design project culminating with the building of full-scale appearance models. I set up a make-shift photo studio in a lightly used classroom and over the past 24 hours shot over 600 images. All were taken in RAW format (DNG) with my Pentax K10D and my [...]
Santa brought me a Lowe’s gift card which I decided to turn into a workbench for my garage. For around $100 and 2 hours of time I built the 72″ wide X 24″ deep x 36″ tall pine workbench you see pictured above. This is a purely functional design that is big enough to support [...]
It’s Friday night and I’m taking the first evening off from model making this week. Enjoyed some grilled burgers with the girls and a couple of glasses of Red Bicyclette pinot noir. While downloading some pictures from the last couple of days I realized that this project has required me to use nearly every trick [...]
I can’t say what this is exactly yet but it has magnets and anything with magnets has to be good. And yes, that is purple heart and birdseye maple that I used for this mock-up. I just used what I had lying around the garage :D
We’re on the home stretch with 3 weeks of class [...]
