This project was undertaken in my second year second semester of my degree. With the focus of making a product ready for manufacture. In this case the iPhone dock would injection moulded as two parts to and be assembled with the LCD screen and arduino unit.
In designing for manufacture the parting lines were an important factor of the design. The desire of the design was to develop an interesting design which doesn't look quite like all other product offerings on the market, whilst being simple enough to learn aspects of injection moulding and making the design manufacturable.
Developing this concept required including an LCD screen and an arduino circuit board (off the shelf items). These components had to be housed correctly to prevent any movement of the circuit boards and prevent damage.
The iphone charging dock was desired to be used in many different settings. Whether it is on a bedside table or placed in a convenient place around the house or workplace, it will charge your iphone and display aspects such as weather, temperature and date on the LCD.
In making a product ready for manufacture it is required to represent an analysis of drafting angles. This represents the plausibility of automated mass manufacture in an injection moulding jig (whether the component can slide out of the jig).
As a part of the process a 3D model was developed through ABS printing. In order to achieve a final prototype finish the model was sanded and finished with high quality paints before the screen and arduino units where added.
