Toy Product Design
MIT Toy Lab (2.00B) is a freshman-year product design capstone class that teaches a variety of mechanical engineering skills through projects. Below is a collection of some of my favorites!
Toy Product Design
Collection of Projects
Year
Spring 2023
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Polaroid Camera: CAD
Given a frame and hard dimensional constraints, I designed a visually appealing shell and programmed an Arduino microcontroller for a game product (“t00bers”) in the form of a Polaroid camera.
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Dr. Time: Team Project
Collaborated with a team of six to design and manufacture a toy product from ideation to presentation. I focused on CAD prototypes and Arduino C++ programming. Our toy, Dr. Time, is a fast-paced pattern recognition game.
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Cat Push Toy: Woodworking
Designed and manufactured a childen’s push toy with careful consideration for affordances and safety. Utilized bandsaws, belt and disk sanders, and wood glue and polish.
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Vector Vortex: Sketching
One of many sketches of game product ideas early in the semester. Overall, I produced about a dozen sketches all loosely focused around the theme “Timeless.”
