5/13/2014 Tuesday

Yesterday was the last day to finalize my design. I started building the prototype today. I have to admit that it doesn't look anywhere close to what I imagined. However, this is just a very rough prototype and my material is limited. 

Tomorrow, I will have to finish making and start put it into test and tweaks. I'll have to go buy some more pringles chips. Let's hope I won't finish it before I start testing it. 

5/5/2014

After a long time of thinking, my design of Pringles Dispenser has some changes. 

First, I was going to make the holder inside the dispenser with two arms that holds the chips when not using. I realized that if it is like that, the arms cannot really hold the chips after one serving. The chips would fall out as whole and fast. 

The first tweak is to change the arms into just one. One arm that holds the chips and as the trigger is being pushed slowly. It is responsive to the amount of force being applied. It lowers the arms and let the chips slide through. 

I also think that the first design of stand is too immobile. So I want to design two parts a hanger and a stand. Here are my ideas

You can see the original TWO ARMS in the dispenser

  In here I changed the design from two arms to one. 

5/3/2014 Saturday

I have begun to think of ideas for Pringles dispenser. I realized that shooting out Pringles is just not realistic because of its size. So I started thinking a way to improve way to eat Pringles. 

I thought about how we always have to put our hands into the can after a certain amount of Pringles is eaten. There, I started to "find" ways to eat Pringles without one hand holding the can and the other trying to get those chips deep in the can. 

The easiest way is to let the chips come out themselves. So, I have started my blue print for the design. The device will look like the cereal dispenser in our dinning hall but has better feature in it. 

5/3/2014 Friday-Saturday

Since the beginning Mr. Igoe suggested me to make designs. I have been thinking for a long time about how to get my idea. Just few minutes ago, I have my first idea ever. That is to make a Pringles dispenser. 

I saw a video just a few days ago. It's a popcorn shooter, Popinator. The device is activated my the word "pop". It figures out where the sound comes from and shoots out a popcorn to the person's mouth. Yet, every popcorn is unique. Every popcorn has different aero dynamic, which made it hard to fly to the exact place. The person needs to catch the popcorn, which is actually fun to play with. 

But Pringles chip are all same shape and size. It should be easy to get into one's mouth same way every time. 

5/2/2014 Friday

Yesterday, my new gears just came in. They are two T-shirts from Reason clothing. Reason clothing is one of the big parody street brands. They make parodies from big designing brand. Over the past few years the parodies styling designs are trending. So I thought doing research of the parodies is important. And I read about their ideas, they said that they love the brand they "copied". If they don't like the brand, they wouldn't "copy" them. Which is interesting mindset because if you really love a brand you would support them instead of making parodies. But then, they didn't just copy the same exact thing from their favorites, they put in their design ideas as well. And that makes their parodies unique because its only theirs not other people's. 

We watched a video in class about a soccer team from Thailand. They built their own soccer field on water. Although, they didn't make it to the championship, they inspired people. They showed that if you really want something you can make it work thinking out of the box.