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Client Meeting – Nigor

Aimée Francis

Just a quick little update. We had our scheduled little meeting with Nigor today (acting as our client) to review the current designs & see what they think of it. Positivity was what we took from this today. We had to try push for hyper criticism, because a design is never perfect and there might be one or two every so slight little things, that if you tweak can make quite the difference. They gave us a guesstimated figure of €250 euro retail price, looking at our current price projections which need altering. We’ve now realised that they haven’t allowed for … Continue reading Client Meeting – Nigor

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Lichtjesavond 2014 – Delft

Aimée Francis

Lichtjesavond, or lights evening (Licht=Light & avond=evening) is a night where there is a light show, projected onto the Stadhuis (city hall) and the whole of the centre is buzzing with life, market stalls, lights everywhere, mulled wine etc. It was a wonderful event, especially in the light show there were a lot of visual tricks (3D). It was beautiful to see the ‘city’ lit up everywhere. Continue reading Lichtjesavond 2014 – Delft

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Lego Modelling – Rob van der Burgh

Aimée Francis

Firstly, I’d like to dedicate this post to my team mate Rob. This is something I’ve not seen done before and I think everyone was really amazed with how it actually worked & moved. Definitely something I need to do in future (great excuse to buy Lego!) To be honest, I think these photos speak for themselves.   How the mirror swings and changes angle       How the heat pipe in the center stays constant as the product is folded It means you can show the mechanisms, how it is set up & folded up quickly and easily … Continue reading Lego Modelling – Rob van der Burgh

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Week 5 & 6

Aimée Francis

First of all, apologies for the delay in week 5 it’s been a crazy few weeks with lots going on at the same time. With the solar cooker project we’ve rolled on deeper into the depths of ideas for different designs. Maybe a survival cooker, a multi-purpose multiple plate cooker, or keep it simple and minimalist. All to be found in due course. With Strategies for Sustainable Design we moved onto the Eco Design principles, looking at different ways we could reduce the impact of the product with the different Eco Principles. Again, using a life cycle analysis proved to … Continue reading Week 5 & 6

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Week 4

Aimée Francis

This week has probably been the most colourful thus far. Kicked off with lectures on biomass, looking at the different types of biomass, energy conversion, efficiency of these fuel sources, as well as uses of biomass. We then swiftly moved onto the Eco-Design strategy, in sustainable design engineering. This looks at the ways in which we can pinpoint product ‘hots-pots’ for improvement, through the method of a LCA (life-cycle analysis). By plugging and plucking numbers we are then able to redesign and evaluate our new designs with these methods, to distinguish if our product has actually improved with regards to sustainability. We … Continue reading Week 4