First homework

Find images and information about similar products - general kids furniture, general flat pack stuff etc.

This will be analysed next lesson - friday

First homework

Find images and information about similar products - general kids furniture, general flat pack stuff etc.

This will be analysed next lesson - friday

IT'S A NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Welcome to the new Year 10 blog for the Resistant materials group.

This should be ongoing over the next 6 months and will be very exciting!!

You will find last years work archived if you can work out where to look and the current Y11 stuff is also around somewhere.

Happy hunting.

Mr O.

flat pack chairs - assessment part 1

Chris' chair (above) was a grade B/C, the finish was OK for a prototype but could have been improved and the design needed more development to enable it to be more effective ( it didn't lock together very well). The actual shape was interesting and showed imagination.

Claudia's chair was rather difficult to grade as she took it home to finish and I haven't seen it since!!!
Kris' chair (above) had a good world cup theme, and the shape was pleasing although it relied purely upon a tight fit for it to work - not very practical or safe in reality. A good prototype but in need of furhter development - grade B/C

Elliot designed a chair (above) that looked good and used the Boxford CNC router to produce the detail. The assembly of the various components was not as effective as might have been hoped but with further development the design could be improved. Grade B

Jake's design (below) was novel and effective, it held itself together without the need for friction and additional pieces. The surface finish wasn't complete but overall a good project - grade B

My foamex chair

This is a pic of my Techsoft 2D design made from foamex, cut out on the Boxford CNC router

Update on the chairs

We dont appear to be making much progress at the moment due to revision and exams, but these will soon be over and then we can concentrate on getting the chairs finished. There isn't a huge amount of time left as final GCSE projects need to be started after spring bank holiday!!

this is my chair design using Techsoft 2D design CAD software.

FLAT PACK CHAIR PROJECT:

Students have been asked to design a flat pack chair for a young child and make a half size model from 9mm MDF. The design should allow for easy assembly without tools, it should appeal to the right age child and be safe and sturdy in use. The students will need to research into the sort of things already on the market and how to start designing such an item and find out the correct size. They will then need to produce a card model of their design and plan how the pieces are to be cut from a sheet with the minimum of waste. The pieces will need to be finished to a high standard and the use of colour and decoration considered carefully.

Sounds like lots of fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Even more Y10 work, all completed:

more finished Y10 work:

These are the finished Year 10 projects. The brief was to design and make a handheld game and to use CAD/CAM somewhere in the project:

More year 10 work in progress

Year 10 work in progress

what do you think of my clock?

this is another demonstration of my blog

this is another demonstration of my blog

Welcome

this is the second entry of the blog - just to see what happens!

Welcome to my blog, this is to help students with their coursework.