Adam Edelbi - Project 1: Building with hand tools

 Process:

    - The first step of my process was a small brainstorming session where my goal was to figure out what exactly I wanted to build. I noticed that the art supplies in my dorm were disorganized and taking up a lot of space on my desk, so I decided to build a storage container for my art supplies. I then hopped into fusion and built a design of the box. After I printed it out it looked something like this:

    - I began the building process by first cutting out all of the pieces I would need, including the walls, handles, floor, inner walls, and inner floor. I connected the smaller two outer walls to the floor before screwing in one of the large outer side walls. I purposefully left one large outer side wall off because I needed to be able to access the inside of the box to get the inner walls and inner floor in place. After getting everything in place, I completed the construction of the box by nailing in the last outer wall. The last step from there was just to glue the handles onto the side of the box, and this is what the final product looked like!

Result:

    - While I am quite happy with the final result, and it looks pretty accurate to my initial design, there were a few bumps in the road that forced me to pivot from my initial idea. The first mistake I made was not deciding whether I would have all of the walls on top of the floor, or around the floor. Because of this, I cut the floor and walls to sizes that did not fit each other and was forced to go back to my fusion design and re-dimension the walls and then recut them. That mistake not only cost me a lot of time, but it wasted a lot of the wood as well. 

    - In my initial design, I had planned to have the floor be higher for two compartments in the box, to make grabbing the supplies easier. However, I realized that I had mis-measured how tall my paints were and realized that I did not need to raise the floor for the middle compartment anymore.

    - The last deviation from my initial design was in my handles. I had initially wanted to put the handles on the side, but I realized that that would make grabbing supplies from the front and back of the box more difficult. Because of that, I decided to lower the handles so that they were level with the walls, so that they would not be in the way.

Reflection:

    - Since I already touched upon the mistakes I made during the project above, I will explain how the box is meant to work here. The small three compartments on the left side of the box were purposefully made narrow and small, but deep in order to store length wise tools such as pencils, colored pencils, and paintbrushes. I made the middle compartment a big, open, deep area in order to be able to house paints, which come in cylindrical containers. For the final compartment on the right side of the box, I wanted it to hold erasers, charcoal, shading stubs, and other charcoal tools. Because I didn't want to have to reach my hand into the box every time, and because it would be easier for me to see all the supplies laid out, I decided to elevate the floor of this particular compartment to make things easier and more efficient. Here's how the box looks after I put all my supplies in it!