Team Members: Daniel, Erin, and Nina
. how did you set up each individual's tasks?
2.1 Form (space) and Composition
Daniel is working on part A. He'll be drawing an exploded axonometric drawing of the stapler in order to investigate the interactions of each component to the whole.
Erin is drawing the geometric descriptions of the stapler (part B). In doing so, Erin has categorized the parts into volumes, planes, lines, and points.
Daniel is also working on part C. He is examining the morphology of the object by building a functioning model.
Nina is working on part D. She is investigating the proportions of the object and its dimensional relationships through the diagrams.
Erin is in charge of part E. She is focusing on the critical points and axis that enable movement of the stapler's parts.
2.2 Use and Operation
As a group, we will be focusing on the interactions of the stapler and various environments.
Erin will be investigating the interactions of the stapler and its parts.
Nina will be investigating the interactions of the stapler and the body.
Daniel will be investigating other significant interfaces such as physical aspects.
Our investigation is based around multiple key investigations:
1. We will be taking pictures of the stapler in environs that it would not typically be found in. For example, the stapler will shadow each of us as we move throughout our days.
2. We will investigate the interactions of the stapler with different users. For example, we will view the reactions and attempted use of the stapler by toddlers and small children. Also, we will examine the stapler's use by experts.
3. We will interview users to hear specific stories about their interactions with a stapler.
4. We will investigate the stapler though documentation of a 'typical day in the life' of the stapler. This will include practical use as well as storage of the stapler.
As a way of documenting all of our information, we will be taking pictures and ultimately compiling our pictures into cohesive drawings to properly convey our discoveries.
. please take carefully a look at this file. You can see vary qualities of analyses precedent analyses.pdf
. Sounds awesome! Could you get a chance to look through the linked website on the right? It tells us how stapler made, and at the end there is other references to read. To investigate this awesome stapler, you need to know its historical background as well. They may give you a hint what the original stapler look like a century ago
ATTN!!! Here's a new page with pictures!! —-> Photos
Notes:
1. staples through different materials (paper, fabric, plastic, etc.) (for presentation)
2. research how it's made (2.3)
3. more pictures of the use (natural environment and experts) (2.2)
4. more interviews (figure out way to display them too...8.5X11 paper with quote and pic of person)(2.2)
5. post more pictures (2.2 and general)
6. hand or some alternative form (hand with beads and paper etc.) and hand with insulation stuff (2.2)
7. Children and how hands fit on stapler (2.2) Erin
8. Cut pictures and put on black paper. Add models for interactions of parts. (2.2) Erin
9. Add color to tracing paper to show different materials...both for beginners and experts(2.2) Erin
10. Focus on material qualities through really zoomed in drawings(2.3)
11. Make titles for all sheets (presentation)
12. Add staples somehow...?
Stapler Fabrication and Assembly:
Stapler Uses:
- manufacturing
- furniture
- medical fields
- carpet tacking
- electrical wire
- insulation and installation
- picture frame manufacture
- home or office
Additional Stapler Facts:
- huge range of sizes (some are the size of a finger while others require two hands to use)
- there is no standard size for a staple, the average is .05 of an inch in diameter
- extremely inexpensive, less than $10 for the stapler, and less that $2 for a packet of 5,000 staples
Parts:
- base:
- anvil: the metal plate over which you put the document that you want to staple
- magazine: holds the staples
- metal head: covers the magazine
- hanger: welded to the base and holds the pin that connects the bottom half
- rivets: used to keep parts together
- pin: hinge point for top and bottom halves, made out of a strong, heat-treatable metal
- springs: keep the row of staples lined up in the track and ready to be used, and they return the plunger blade to its original up position
- plunger blade: acts as a guillotine, it separates one single staple from the row of staples each time it’s forced down
- follow block: the metal piece in the magazine that holds the staples toward one end of the magazine (follow spring allows it to move back and forth)
- feet: anti-skid rubber pads
Fabrication of Parts:
- all coils and springs are made by winding the metal material around a rod and is then heat-treated so it will retain its shape when pulled apart (to a certain extent)
- other metal parts of the stapler are made using sheet metal and stamps…comparable to cookie dough and a cookie cutter…sandwiched between a punch which molds the metal into the appropriate shape
- plastic parts of the stapler are made using injection molding…liquefied plastic is injected into a die and cools…the die (mold) is opened and the part is removed
Assembly:
- pins, stampings, and springs are subassembled in stages and then assembled together with the upper and lower halves of the stapler frame
- the bottom half…base, hanger, anvil, and clearing spring are placed in a jig that holds them in position to allow rivets to be placed in the correct holes
- orbital riveter (tool) connects parts
- the top half…magazine and metal head are assembled in a jig
- top and bottom halves come together in another jig
- feet and plastic cap are snapped on
What's left for me (Nina) to do tonight/this weekend:
1. collect pictures of the different stapler parts to go along with the fabrication and assembly info
2. arrange it somehow to make it presentable
3. print out pictures (human stapler, office, kitchen, etc.)
4. make interview pages (picture with quote underneath)
5. get pictures from sister of baby with stapler
6. collect materials to staple through... piece of paper, fabric, styrofoam, plastic, cardboard
Also, I don't know when we could do this, but I saw that someone got poster board and drew their object on there pretty big...and then for each section that had a different material or texture, they glued on different stuff like sand, beans, etc. to fill in the section. I thought that was a cool idea.
Call me if there's anything more that I need to do. I might end up coming back to studio tonight around 9 depending on how far I get with studying for my calc test.
good site: http://www.madehow.com/images/hpm_0000_0001_0_img0194.jpg
What to do for 2.4:
Nina- Make parallels, faces, amy, blooming flower, etc.
Daniel- Predecessors, what came before?, alligator (photoshop?)
Erin- alternative uses (paper clips, binder clips, "dog ear", and one more thing)
Fabrication and Assembly:
Figure out how to assemble it...Ms. Lee, do you have any suggestions? We were thinking of summarizing the fabrication and assembly steps listed above, and then finding pictures that relate to each step to show a visual of the process. Would that be ok?
guys,
I posted how staplers are made link. In that page, you can see all procedures from making spring to final assembly. Once you figure out that procedure, you can imagine how those parts are fabricated. For 2.4 you can make each step's model using some similar material, to show how springs are made, how metal plates are molded, how staples are shaped, etc.
Search for those steps in dedth, and describe them with your own modeling, photos, etc.
October 22, 2007
To Do:
Daniel:
1. Make key for Photoshoped drawing
2. Make spring assembly model
3. Add muscle structures to drawings
Nina:
1. Finish fabrication and assembly drawing (including text and pictures)(name, what it's made of, how you make it)
2. Find pictures of things that have the same properties (door hinge, book, car hood, and two more things...)
Erin:
1. Compile different things that hold paper together/ different materials (paper welding, sewing machine for fabric, rivets for metal, and wax and ribbon)
2. Analyze pressure drawings
3. Make models (can, foam, and injection mold)
10-27-07
To Do:
All:
1. Scan all drawings
2. Figure out how to arrange boards (meeting 8pm on Tuesday)
Daniel:
3. Motion (photoshop thing)
4. Figure out the designer's original intentions: the 'Why?' of everything. Focus on form and composition mainly I think.
Nina:
3. Work with Erin to make models of negative and positive space
4. Senses
5. Materials/ Fabrication: Why use specific materials?
6. Finish fabrication thing.
Erin:
3. Work with Nina to make models of negative and positive space
4. Exploded axon of hinge
5. Typology (use exploded axon)
6. Figure out something else to analyze.
Meeting Tuesday Night at 8pm to figure out layout
Stapler Precidents
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haptic –Useful Site for Haptic analysis
Organization Layers.psd
Movement.psd
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Contact Info
Daniel Chaney- 770 363 1870
dan.l.chaney@gmail.com
Erin West- 678-773-5311
ewest6@gatech.edu
Nina Perala- 404-259-7528
ninaperala@gatech.edu
Resources
staple gun . snyder 2003.pdf
.stamping of parts
Useful website link
. How products are made?
http://www.madehow.com/Volume-1/Stapler.html/
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