RPInfo Board

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RPInfo Board
A Gift to Rensselaer Students
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Team Bios
Carl Anderson. Model Maker
Shannon Burns PowerPoint and Surveys
Kristiina Baker Posters
Eric Pulvino Cad and Website
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Project Outline/ Goals

• Design a gift suitable for a visitor to
  Rensselaer
• Use processes available in the Advanced
  Manufacturing Laboratory (AML).

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The First Meeting

• Came up with several preliminary ideas

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What is a Gift?

• Used to welcome or show thanks
• Meant to leave a good impression
• Universities may give gifts to encourage
  donations or to attract new students

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Five Ideas to Expand

• Used the selection criteria
• Narrowed our list of ideas down to just five
  ideas a white board, fork doorstop, ice cube
  tray, puzzle, and a bottle/can cover.

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Our Selection Criteria

• Fun
• Feasible/ Manufacturable
• Innovative, new, and creative
• Significant
• Functional

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The Best of the Best

• We narrowed down the ideas to just two using our
  selection criteria
• Dry Erase Board and Ice Cube Tray

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Improvements

• Was little we could do to make an ice cube tray
  fun and innovative
• Many ways to change the white board mirror,
  pictures, cork board, magnets, LEDs, shapes

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White Board

• Had the most potential for improvement
• Made sketches and quick models of new ideas

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Design Process

• Continue to explore options through sketches and
  models

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Design Process

• Additional quick models were made
• Helped us to explore further design options

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Design Process

• A more refined model
• Helped us to work out design problems
• Working towards a Cad model

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Design Process

• Looking towards a compact way of packaging our
  product

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What kind of Campus is RPI?

• Challenging
• Intellectual
• Career Oriented
• Prestigious

• Fun
• Innovative
• Professional
• Diverse

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Accepted Students Survey

• 22 respondents- 9 parents, 13 students 20 males,
  2 females

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Accepted Students Survey

• Additional Features none, make it larger, more
  customizable, phone diary, while you were gone
  message board, string to hold markers, bag to
  hold misc. items, energy, digital aspects,
  mirror, serial , supply pushpins,
  reminder/reward for calling home
• Impressions Innovative, creative, driven for
  success, respect for freshman, unique, focus on
  design, organized, involved in business,
  thoughtful, fun, easy, care as to what kind of
  experience you have, good for your door, and
  cumbersome to carry all day

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Further Refinements

• Received good feedback from surveys- people
  generally liked our product
• Added capacity for a 4th marker
• Enlarged corkboard

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Cad Model

• Worked out several design problems
• Clarified ideas
• Finalized concepts
• Began final model

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Production of a Final Model

• Utilized AML and Woodshop in Greene Building
• Problems with tolerances
• Problem with weight

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How Our Product is Used

• Remove Packaging
• Assemble in desired manner
• Secure together with 90 degree fasteners
• Hang on Wall or Door
• Add pictures, leave notes, tack up papers, and be
  creative

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Features

• Large Center Whiteboard
• Corkboard to tack up papers
• Additional whiteboard with important campus
  numbers and Where am I?

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Features

• 4x6 picture frame with plastic sleeve to
  protect photo
• RPI eraser
• Marker holder
• Designed for simplicity

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Manufacturing Plan Suggestions

• Designed product to use several AML processes in
  production
• Plastic injection molded puzzle pieces
• Sheered materials or water jet cut
• Laser etched eraser top
• Robotic assembly

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THANK YOU!!!Enjoy your summer!