On the rather chilly morning of the 12th of December 2006, the final of the lamp post climbing robot competition was to commence.
Just twelve weeks previous to the event, 18 members of the unsuspecting design world joined into the fast track system to begin understanding more about becoming a design engineer through an MSc Design […]
After a few months of hard work, the first semester has come to an end. I finally have a bit of time to catch up and get my breath back. So over the next little while I’ll be uploading snippets from the course.
Here’s the first: A video of the first working prototype we created
A quick time out whilst nearing the end of a report. As a part of this report on Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Mechanism Design we have to use mechanism design software to analyse the forces on a connecting rod within a reciprocating compressor. We then use this force result and apply it to the […]
So, the major project for my MSc in Design Engineering turns out to be a climbing robot.
Tomorrow is the deadline for submitting 100 ideas. There are six teams of three people and every one of them will probably have around 100 pretty excellent ideas and maybe one bad one out of the whole bunch. I’m […]
IKEA Project 01
Check this out.
This is my IKEA Project. We had to use two existing products within the IKEA range and combine them into a brand new product with a function and under the value of £10.
After two weeks i have spent about 16 hours in IKEA (more than unhealthy) and come up with this […]
Middlesex University: Trent Part Campus
So, it’s week number three at Middlesex University. For all those who might be wondering how i might be getting on, the answer is “pretty well… so far!”
The first week seemed to involve a fair amount of hanging around and waiting for inductions, introductions and placement talks which was interesting but […]