Skelhøjskolen - Ebeltoft Public school 1998-2008
SilkeborgSkolen boarding school Sports 2009-2010
Education Work
SommerShades retail of consumer goods Co-founder and owner 2012-2016 Træstøberiet furniture project Design consultant July - August 2015
Grundfos Solution Camp Alternative B2B applications of Grundfos Lifelink November 2015
Hi, my name is Petter; Welcome to my portfolio. At the top, you can see what I have done throughout my life so far, and on the right you can see some of the things that I love to do in my free time. I am most passionate about what I do at the university, but other things fill the free time, like meeting other creative minds through external camps or learning a new skill like windsurfing. If I find interest in something, I will do anything to fail fast and learn from that to achieve the objective I set, and to have a growth mindset around it because I will never reach a goal, I will only level up.
Imbox Shoecare Solution Camp Redesign of products November 2016 Induflex Specialist in plastic processing Component Construction Workshop 1st place October 2016
Højere teknisk Gymnasium – Grenå Tecnical Gymnasium Design and technology 20010-2013
Aalborg Universitet Aalborg University Bsc. Industrial Design, Architecture and Design 2013-2016
AAU Learning lab and career center high school didactics and communication Teaching December 2016 – Present
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Ideacamp Designing the future of mobility – 2th place November 2016
The view from the place i grew up. Windsurfing in the summer. Some of the electronic work I do. My battle station. Training when I have the time. My beloved Mountain bike.
Aalborg Universitet Aalborg University Msc. Industrial Design, Architecture and Design 2016-Present
AAU Scandinavian talent team Creative platform and design thinking Concept development for steinwurf March 2017 – present
Fynbus Getting the Ideacamp project in production Design consultant January 2017 – present
Solidworks
Skillset 10/10
Photoview
10/10
Photoshop
7/10
Excel
7/10
Fusion 360
6/10
Arduino
5/10
Indesign
5/10
Matlab
4/10
Illustrator
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Keyshot
3/10
Robot studio
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Grasshopper
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Table of contents Group Work
Page 1-2 The Drop Water fountain for children 7 semester
Page 3-4 Ergomagic Bike mechanic lifting device 6 semester
Page 5-6 FLUX induction rechargeable Light balls 2 semester
Page 7-8 Wheelchair lift Lifting device for a Wheelchair to the roof of a car. 3 semester
Individual Work
Page 9-10 Replica making photorealistic renderings of already existing object
Page 11-12 Chair of light Home project to challenge myself in theory and practice.
Page 13-14 Handicap equipment flexible help for people with hip fracture 5 semester
Page 15-16 Le Lamp recruited lamp project for Furniture Company
The Drop
The product itself is like a water fountain but the way this differs from other products on the market is that children will not be able to play with the water. This is secured by using a special designed valve and pressure gauge system, which controls the waterflow from the unit to the children. The risk of spread of germs is also minimized if not eliminated by using a straw. The unit is connected to a loop system that give the opportunity for a Cooler to deliver cold water instantly to several units.
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My part in the project has been to research and develop the valve and pressure gauge system and to design the loop system so it is calibrated to one or several connections to the cooler, without over or under pressuring the system. I was also in charge of all that is ‘’behind the surface’’. Which means both design and technical aspect of the inner parts.
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Ergomagic
Ergomagic is a bike hanger for professional technicians and enthusiasts. The product is a lift that follow the handlers movement in the grip, so if the grip is moved up the bike will follow. This gives full and perfect freedom to move the bike to a position that gives the best conditions for repairs, cleaning, etc. The motors can handle a weight of 60Kg in total, so no bike is too heavy for the system. The main focus in this project is the human interaction with the product. By making a linear Potentiometer ‘’record’’ the movement on the slider (see picture 1) the handle will move at the exact same speed as the person that is moving the slider. The only force that is needed to move 60Kg is around 50Grams, which is defined by the springs to ‘’reset’’ the slider after a movement.
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My first focus part was to study how we were going to interact with as many different bikes in the simplest way possible. Next was the actual human bike interaction. This was by far the trickiest part. Because how is anyone going to lift a range from five to 60 kg with as little effort as possible. After ideation, research and testing the linear Potentiometer idea came up. My final task was to fit all these components into as little space as possible (picture 2)
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FLUX
This was a project with aesthetic in mind. The project was done in collaboration with the lamp company Nordlux. Our task was to design something new and innovative. Flux is spheres which emit different colored light ‘’out of nowhere’’. It’s made by two semicircles which were a compass-like construction on the inside that holds LED’s, induction coil, receiver, batteries etc. The Dish transmits induction energy just like a wireless charger and the spheres receive that energy and charge the batteries so that the sphere can be placed elsewhere.
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My favorite part was to make the actual dish model in oak, which was done by hand and not machine. I gained some more experience with model work and electric engineering by working with induction coils and making that compatible with the Phillips HUE system that we used to control the light.
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Wheelchair lift
The task was to get a rea spirea 2 wheelchair onto a Peugeot 208SW, without making modifications to the car or the wheelchair. The product is a minimalistic design with three arms and a casing on top of the car. When folded out the driver can get into the car and just push the wheelchair back and it will be fastened to the arm. The arm will then fold the wheelchair together and lift it up to the roof. We tried to make the design as decent as possible to not signal ‘’handicap’’
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This project was the first time I encountered why design is developed with form, function and construction simultaneously, because we made the form and then I had to make the mechanics and motor fit in that space without moving the form that much. It was a good experience to develop functionality in such a tiny space and still hold the construction and form preferences. I was in charge of the Solidworks video rendering of all the moving parts and technical drawings.
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Replica
This course was to take a real item and make a replica in a CAD modelling program. The normal task was a garlic presser, but I chose the Ultrafire SK68 Q5 flashlight, because I wanted to see how far I was able to stretch my expertise in Solidworks. The whole thing was hand-measured with a ruler and written down in Excel. The actual CAD model is a combination of bottom-up and top-down drawing technique. Hardest part in this project was to get the feature tree properly constructed so I was able to modify without any errors in the process.
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Chair of light
The whole idea behind the chair was to make it emit light out of nowhere and by working with Refractive index of polycarbonate I was able to do exactly that and give it the edge of cogitate that I wanted. This project is actually 7 years old. It was an idea that came unexpectedly, but this project is actually why I got into designing things In Solidworks. I had the idea, I could just not do it so I started to teach myself Solidworks and finally made the CAD model. I chose to make it my graduation project in design at my gymnasium and go full scale. I toke out all the free time I had and made the chair in polycarbonate and glass fiber and implemented the light in it. The whole process can be seen at www.instructables.com under the name “Chair of Light�.
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Handicap equipment For the fifth semester project I decided to work alone. The predefined frame was an Interactive Physical product. My personal frame was rehabilitation from hip fractures. After the baseline research I got in contact with a rehabilitation center that worked with this kind of fracture and visited it several times to make user observations and analysis both of the patients and the trainers. I chose to focus on the three basic exercises that is hip flexion, extension and abduction. The problem in this case is that the hip must not twist in any these exercises. The idea was to make a product that was user friendly for my target group of people (65+ years) and which they were able to use by themselves. Ideation began and I came up with 12 different designs for the performance of the exercises. I narrowed it down to four that I could evaluate from Striims point system and objectively chose the design that was best. The last part was to model it up in Solidworks, 3D print it and attach all the sensors and check that everything worked as it should.
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My favorite part of the project was to actually make and code the whole system, so all the sensors responded properly. I did not have time to make it work with actual actuators but in theory if I had attached actuators instead of fans it would work. I like that I was pushed to work in all fields of a semester project and forced to go in depth with everything. This project has truly been one of the biggest achievements for me at the University and personally.
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Le Lamp
This is some work I did freelance for a company called TrÌstøberiet. The owner was not sure what he actually wanted but it should fit in the company profile, which is mostly special designed handmade dinner tables but also other wooden furniture. Simple, minimalistic, unique. That is the vision. I combined his vision into five different proposals for a lamp and we moved on with one of them and specified until we had the shape. I moved on to designing the joints and how the wood was going to be cut and assembled. Underway I learned a lot more about working with wood. The final product is a simple lamp in five pieces of wood that are assembled by wing nuts. Moreover, the hooks for the wire work as dowels, besides the one that holds the lamp.
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Contacts: Petter Hvidt Toft Petter@hvidttoft.dk linkedin.com/in/pettertoft/ +45 26283858