Hands on Design and Prototyping for Makers
Brief
The Hands-on Design and Prototyping for Makers workshops (2x 4 hour sessions on a Saturday) are TryIt trial for the Design Thinking and analogue prototyping components of Makerthon Camp (which is also to be trialed with 15-18 year olds in the July School Holidays).
Session Objectives
- Establish safe, welcoming and adventurous atmosphere- to promote productive creative environment for the workshop and build community of FL users.
- Develop participants' base technical drawing skills- to promote participants' confidence in visually capture (documenting) and communicating ideas.
Develop participants' basic analogue prototyping skills- to promote participants' confidence in using basic hands on materials for prototyping testing a prototype and confidence iterating * Develop participants' basic critical and problem solving skills- to promote participants' confidence in assessing the success/ viability of a prototype and how to build iterative momentum.
Proposed Schedule
Day 1
Day 2
0000 - 0015 | Share | Talk about any thing you've learnt/realised since last week |
0015-0030 | Prototype & Document | with your reflections in mind add to you prototype |
0030-0045 | and then document your design | |
0045-0115 | Swap inventions | Inventor hands over documentation, and receiver plays the lost in translation/ chinese whispers game in order to explain it back and fill in the gaps |
0115-0130 | Embellish your partner's invention | pivot on the concept with a new designer, |
0130-0145 | document and hand it back. | |
0145-0200 | Break | |
0200-0215 | Iterate | Respond to your partners pivot with another prototype |
0215-0230 | ||
0230-0300 | ||
0300-0315 | Prototype | |
0315-0330 | Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design | https://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html |
0330-0345 | ||
0345-0400 | share |
Materials | Quantity | Cost | Supplier |
---|---|---|---|
Paper Pencils and Ruler and a folder for each participant | 1 | $0.00 | Supplier 1 |
Cardboard, Hot Glue, rubberbands, string, paddlepops, skewers, straws, plasticmake, knives | 1 | $0.00 | Supplier 2 |
Plastercine | 1 | $0.00 | Supplier 2 |
Snacks | $0.00 | Supplier 3 | |
Total | $0.00 |
Tools and Preparation
Tools
- Tool 1
- Tool 2
- Tool 3
- Tool 4
Preparation
Before the workshop you will need to …