POD Portable.
First designed in 2019, POD Portable was a 3 month project. The brief was to create a portable light, that’s would be powered by a coin cell battery. When researching problems I decided to focus around rugged portable lighting.
Below shows a summary of POD Portable’s design process, concluding with a 3D Printed prototype.
Design Process.
Please note this is a summary of design process.
Problem
General Research
Research - Functionality & Materials
Form Exploration
Trigger Mechanism
Mechanical Refinement
Design For Manufacture
Prototype
Build Progression.
Made from seven individual 3D Printed components. The circuit board was hand soldered and programmed with three lighting functions.
1st Gen 3D Printed Prototype.
Final assembly of prototype. Learnings - reduce wall thickness, redesign spring components for easier assembly and redesign for a rechargeable battery.
POD - 3rd Angle (Translucent top used for production version)
POD - Birds Eye
POD - Side
POD - Base (Screws and magnets colour matched with casing for production version)