Mouse Concept

Patent Pending

The idea for creating this mouse came from fooling around on SolidWorks with a few lines and splines, and from there we decided to work on this mouse using techniques we’ve never used before in order to broaden our expertise in the field.

Yes, I did say we, because this project belongs to both my project partner and me.

The design was created with the intent of having fairly good hand ergonomics by utilizing studies of the 50^th percentile for hand positions and orientations which most people would use when using a mouse. From there I measured, calculated and created the side surface and base surface of the mouse. I then created a 3D sketch wireframe and began making surface lofts to complete the shape. I was then able to perfect the exterior shape by adding control points to adjust the shape of the mouse and noted how much the curvature combs spiked in certain areas and did my best to keep those spikes minimized.

From this point forward, we’ll be working on hardware design, fitting the hardware inside of the mouse, undercovers, battery placement and all the remaining accessory work.

Everything above was a meant to showcase a very small percentage of the mouse as well as my process so far with this design. Unfortunately all further advances in the design and future information must be held confidential. If you’d like to learn more please contact me and we can discuss my processes further or discuss my ideas and concepts I plan to include in the near future. Thank you.

Please note: None of the above images are completed so they may not reflect the final design exactly as they are shown currently.

• Date: July 2015
• Category: Industrial Design

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System Layout Design

Applying My Knowledge To The Workplace

Retisoft creates automated systems for in lab processes in the life science market. My role at Retisoft was to design systems layouts for companies for their research labs. More specifically, I would design tables of different sizes and lay those tables out in a specific way to have a minimized system footprint for the clients, while maintaining an efficient instrument layout. After the tables were set in some position I would design an instrument layout on those tables and attempt to maximize movement efficiency of the robotic arm which was to be integrated in order to automate their system.

The images below are of one of the systems that I designed and integrated on site for a specific company

Please note: The instruments being used needed to be hidden for proprietary reasoning.

• Date: January 2016
• Category: System Design

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USB Drive Case

First Major Project Brought to Life with 3D Printing

The challenge here was to re-design and produce a set of drawings for a simple, yet stylish and inexpensive USB drive. The design needed to be able to be assembled without tools and have as minimum number of parts as possible.

Out of the many designs we drew up, my partner and I decided to create a cross design. The reason we went for this design is because at the time crosses weren’t just a symbol of religion, but it was also a style choice many people carried out around us. Our intention for this cross USB was for it to be worn either around ones neck as a necklace or carried on one’s keychain.

Since the cap removes from the bottom of the cross we knew that the cap needed to be placed somewhere with the main body of the USB so it doesn’t get lost. We created grooves in either side of the cross to be able to lock the cap in place in those grooves without losing or misplacing the cap.

This design was manufactured on a 3D printer as a Mach 1 prototype. Unfortunately it was kept by our instructor as an example which is why I am unable to provide images for the prototype.

• Date: December 2010
• Category: Industrial Design

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Automated Plant Waterer

In this project we were tasked to design a product which has primarily physical components to assist people in the North American market to create their own sustainable local food resources.

We needed to find a specific problem to solve with respect to urban agriculture and then begin the design process to create the best possible product for that problem.

My group and I designed an automated plant waterer. We thought that now-a-days many people live busy lives, work from morning until night, and get home only to have to do more work in the house like cooking, cleaning, etc. Because most people live such busy lives they tend to forget about little things like watering their crops or plants especially in small houses or even condos and apartments. That’s where our product comes along. We created a system where the plants would be watered by our product at the perfect time. Our system contains a water reservoir which allows for water to be poured down through a tube into the soil. In the soil is a moisture sensor which sends a signal to a receiver attached to a valve in the reservoir and the valve opens and closes to allow water to flow down as needed. The only real maintenance involved with the system is to fill the reservoir with water when the water level is low. We understood that many people either wouldn’t know when to fill the reservoir or just wouldn’t remember to fill it. To solve this issue we included a special light alert system where the tube would be lit in a green LED meaning everything is running optimally for the plant waterer and when the reservoir is low, the tube would change colours from a green to red indicating a refill is needed.

The above is a rendered photo of the design of the plant waterer without any hardware.

• Date: December 2013
• Category: Product/ Industrial Design

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Miscellaneous Design Skills

Below are a few miscellaneous designs used for practicing and creating correct drawings for certain parts to be manufactured.

Section view

Auxiliary view

V-Block base drawing and full assembly

Double bearing assembly exploded view

Butterfly valve assembly

• Category: Industrial Design

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Original Website

Initially I created my first website because I felt pressured into doing something software related. I decided to do front end web development which surprisingly happened to be in the realm of design and I wasn’t even consciously trying to include “design” in my life. I learned all the basics and came up with a really simplistic website that happened to have some jQuery included in the nav bar. From that I ended up creating this website. Even though I wasn’t a huge fan of it, the design and layout of a website helps me to exercise my horizons and see the possibilities there are, as well explore the different realms of design related to their respective fields. To me, it’s my job is to learn about design everywhere and learn to incorporate and overlap fields of design into a new super design in my field.

The images below show what my website looked like at one point.

Now that my site is revamped, I hope you enjoy the new experience!

• Date: December 2014
• Category: Web Design

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