BLOG MOVED

I re-designed my website and integrated my blog onto the front page of it.  From now on, my updates will be at http://www.westhomasdesign.com

In the meantime, I’m trying to find an efficient way to forward visitors to the new site.  Please update your links/bookmarks and RSS subscriptions.

Thanks,

Wes

Inspiring TED Talk

TED talk videos are absolutely amazing, and lately I can’t stop watching them.  However, this one I saw today particularly inspired me and compelled me to display it on my journal.  It’s refreshing to see that the way we live in the western world isn’t the only model for human and cultural life.  There are tons of awesome topics that are brought up, if you’ve got the 22 minutes, it’s definitely worth a watch.

Recent Bracelet Designs

Similar to how job shops work, I had the opportunity this semester to give my professor my files and he’d run them for me and give me back the 3D printed object a week or so later.  During my crit today, he gave me back my most recent design that he had printed.  I wasn’t expecting it to be done yet, so I was pretty pumped when he showed me.  It turned out a little bigger than I calculated, since the randomness of the form allows for different lengths depending on how the bracelet falls.

The rapid prototype process prints the objects out with supports.  The bracelet was designed to fit into an area that is smaller than 2″ x 2″ x 2″.  Once the supports are removed the bracelet can be expanded and take form.

I want to look into if the already cured resin supports can somehow be recycled and used again, but it seems unlikely.  Maybe I can find another use for the leftover scraps.

I still haven’t sanded and finished it, but just wanted to share some process shots along the way.

Peculiar Glass

I wanted to share a recent glass project I completed..

What is it?

Rapid Prototyping

I wanted to share a bracelet that I modeled in 3D and got rapid prototyped.  As a techniques project, the assignment asked us to produce a functional object within a small cube (2″ x 2″ or 3″ x 3″).

With the links being printed inside one another, I created a bracelet that is printed in a small cubic area and folds out into it’s actual size once the support material has been removed.

Grey Water System Conceptual Model

To view the conceptual model larger, click here

Grey Water Treatment Site

View Larger Map

This map shows where Mill Creek Urban Farm is, the site which we are building our grey water treatment design.  This map identifies the different areas of the farm, and where exactly we plan on implementing the system.

Grey Water Treatment in Philly Farms

As part of our Farm Philly Project, my group and I researched and developed concepts for the treatment and recycling of grey water for use in urban farms.

We mapped out some information we learned from research and prototyping until we reached a well developed idea that we confidently could say will work out beneficially.

After meeting our client, Mill Creek Urban Farm, we discussed the project with them, to see exactly what they wanted.  We returned to the studio and began brainstorming and sketching out the kinks to seamlessly integrate our system into their existing sink plumbing system on site.

Here’s the model of our design integrated into their site:

Farmphilly.com

As a class, we’re taking all of the content we worked on and are currently working on for our Philly Urban Farming project.  All of the groups and their respective members have access to posting and editing on the site, and we’re going to try to establish ourselves in the urban farming world, more specifically, the Philly urban farming world.

Check out the site at farmphilly.com

Portfolio Update: The Shot Dropper

Check out my cargo collective page on this project