ATEC-FAB UTDallas : Mayah Delagarza - Makerspace Lamp Project

Sunday, November 6, 2022

Mayah Delagarza - Makerspace Lamp Project

Concept/Inspiration

I have always been an avid supporter and lover of the animal known as the Red Panda. To me, not only are they the cutest animal ever to exist, but the BEST animal ever. So I decided to base my MakerCase lamp off of red pandas. So I used the main simplified pattern of a red panda for the front and a tail for the back of the lamp. Both the left and right sides of the lamp would have little apple designs since it is the favorite food their zookeepers like to give them.

Inspiration Images

Orthographic Design Sketch

Process

I just wanted to make a simple design of a red panda and a block. I used the simple extrude curve and join to make the main outline for the lazer and main base of the 3d model. Then I used the Hatches and Extrude Closed Planar Curve to of course, make the hatches and used the mirror tool in order to make the main red panda face design at the end. And to make the holes on the 3d model, I used boolean difference in order to do that. (The Naked Edges being shown in the model is a sort of bounding I used in order to properly portray what area of the model would be colored orange.)

3D Model Ghosted

3D Model Ghosted With Naked Edges

3D Model Orthographic

Materials

In Keyshot I used a wooden texture to represent the actual wood I was gonna use, which I ended up using a plywood 1/8inch thick board for the Lazer project. The whole thing in the Keyshot program is a wood texture material along with some color changes to be able to portray the proper coloring I was going to give it with acrylic paint. I used the table in the computer lab for my main Keyshot renderings and gave the bulb inside the area lighting material to properly produce the lighting inside of the lamp. At first I was not going to give the lamp any sort of blockage for the physical thing, but I ended up having to put them on for the project. I was more of a fan of the clear holes and being able to see the outline of the cut being made with the light.