Thursday, 24 October 2013

TEAM MEETING 25/10

Design talking points
- Going with the hexagon/triangle pattern
- Using a membrane of rubber or foam to keep cords in their channels
- Plug management- one sloped surface
- Include CNC light cut outs at bottom of cord channels
- Lighting the interior, LED strips?
- Light leaking from back to make lighting feature
- Thickness of entire board

Issues to address after talking to our tutor
- Placement, size & fixture of glass panel
- Integrating an on/off switch to fit aesthetic
- Mains power cord- needs to look good
- Differentiating 6 individual channel inputs/outputs
- Tidy up triangle design to be visually balanced
- Light channels having individual acrylic pieces, sitting flush w the wood

Things to do for next meeting (29/10)
- Iterate more designs for top triangle panel- SolidWorks, Photoshop, Sketches
- Design integration of glass panel
- Measure thickness of cords- post findings

Projected Timeline for Week
TUES- have design finalised, get CNC file checked by technicians
THURS- CNC routing starts @ 10am, Measure top panel for membrane fitting, make box & cut our back panel

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