The Upcycling product I have designed is a fruit plate, and the materials used are carpet and keyboard keys. First attempt was to drill holes and wire it together, but it fails to hold together tightly. Therefore I used another method of melting the keyboard keys and cool it down while placing keys together, but it appears the keys start to deform and change shapes, which is not allowed in this project according to the brief. So I used PVA glue to stick the keys together, which worked well.
The fruit plate I designed is from the idea of 2 hands placed together holding a fruit, at first the idea was to make a circle bottom, but if I do that, there will be a hole in the middle of the plate, and when the plate rolls up, it will not look like a hand shape, so I used a carpet to give a firm base.
The fruit plate is made from 133 square keyboard keys, which requires two keyboards to produce one fruit plate, the base is 7 x 7, and the extended arms are 3 keys high, the overall dimensions of the plate is 175 x 175 x 50 mm, which is a small plate designed to hold medium size fruits such as oranges, apples etc.
I have experimented the plate with actual fruits, the extended parts are strong enough to hold fruits, however, they are not designed for hard impacts, therefore it will crack if it is fallen or hit with hard force. However, the plate is a nice piece of design that can be placed on a dinning table.
I like this product as it is an unusual material for a fruitbowl and has a very appealing texture when all placed together. i think you could have improved by continuing the computer keys the whole way round and not left gaps.
ReplyDeleteThis is an interesting design, moreso because of the choice of materials, which seem completely unrelated from the final product use, a fruit bowl. But personally, it seems to be a kind of fun design, with a surprisingly smooth interior surface, with all the keys glued together like they have been. The only thing that worries me a little is the amount of glue that has been used to put this together.
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