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Tapan Agarwal UG - Sem 5 - Product design

MAEER’s MIT INSTITUTE OF DESIGN

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EggePry | Interface Design | Illumebrella | Recycle bin | Nomad | Isotonic | Indian Rupee symbol

DESIGN PROJECTS

EggePry How do you peel a boiled egg? An innovative solution would be to blow air inside the egg so that the shell gets loose from the egg which can then be removed easily without damaging the egg white. EggePry allows you to do this simply and efficiently. Its faster than picking at the eggshell with your fingernails. Thus preserving more time for filling one’s belly with tasty egg yummess.

Bon appetite!

Duration: 4 weeks

EggePry

Crack egg from lower end

Insert central fork inside the shell

Blow air from the other end

The shell gets loose and thus can be peeled easily

EggePry

Air pressure separates egg shell from egg

HEAD Materi al:

Polypro

pylene

Hollow tube Blow air

Air gap

PIPE Material: Stainless steel

Principle working prototype

HOW?

Interface Design A SYSTEM WHICH WOULD ENHANCE THE USER EXPERIENCE OF USING A PMPML BUS (PUNE LOCAL BUS)

PROBLEMS FACED BY PUNE LOCAL BUS TRANSPORT SYSTEM: Improper and non communicative signages at the bus stop and on the bus.

Lack of visual and auditory display inside the bus, thus many times a person would miss his bus or his stop.

The information written on a bus ticket about the bus fare, distance, stop, etc is not self explanatory.

This was a group project.

Team members: Ashish Sanklecha, Heena Trivedi, Tapan Agarwal Duration: 4 weeks

Interface Design PMPML Route info.

Dec

Deccan corner Fursungi Hadapsar Katraj Karve nagar Koregaon park Kothrud Baner From

Select

SEARCH

to

Route no.

29

Timings 10:27am

301 529 435

10:35am 10:40am 10:50am

Baner - Pune station Stop Deccan corner Distance 12km Fare Rs 11

To

01:09 pm

01:09 pm

01:09 pm

Baner From

Deccan corn To Select

SELECT

PMPML Route info.

301 10:35am Baner - Shivaji nagar Stop Deccan corner Distance 12km Fare Rs 11

Buy ticket See route in map Set alert View full schedule Save info as message Select

01:09 pm

01:09 pm

01:09 pm

SET ALERT

PMPML Route map

301 10:35 baner - shivaji nagar distance 12km fare Rs 11 stop - Deccan corner

301 10:35 am

Deccan corner

Ticket no. av 3012

When bus arrives When stop arrives 15 min before bus arrives Before 1 stop

Baner

Option

Reply

Back

Route 29

Option

Route 529

Home

Check

Save

Back

You can buy ticket through your cell phone and an electronic ticket having a unique ticket number will be sent to your phone.

You can browse through different route maps to search for a desired location.

SOLUTION: A mobile user interface which would search buses, routes, buy tickets and set alerts for your bus, to notify when your bus or stop arrives.

It is a Java based mobile application specifically designed for Nokia mid ranged phones.

This application will be available in different languages as per one’s need.

You can set alerts for your bus. A bluetooth device installed in the bus will send alerts to your cellphone when your bus or stop arrives.

Illumebrella It’s raining heavily in the dark. You step on a puddle of mud wearing your favourite shoes. Bad! Isn’t it?

In India we don’t have streetlights on every street.

Some parts of the country experience powercut regularly. Walking along a dark street is difficult when it is raining.

Illumebrella protects you from rain and also illuminates your path when it’s dark. Apart from this; vehicles will notice you easily, even if it’s foggy. Thus it will help prevent accidents. Illumebrella is a hand powered umbrella having LED’s on its alternate rib tips. It is powered by an electric dynamo which is inside its handle. You just have to push the trigger on its handle which would rotate the dynamo and produce electricity. One minute rotation of the dynamo, can give upto 30 minutes power, to light the LED bulbs, as the electricity produced is stored in four AG10 alkaline batteries. Basically it has a wind up battery inside it to power the LED bulbs.

COMPETITION ENTRY FOR CG LED INNOVATION AWARDS RESULTS AWAITED

Illumebrella MATERIALS AND SCHEMATIC CONSTRUCTION: Canopy- translucent PE Tube- alloy steel Stretcher- alloy steel Umbrella ribs- alloy steel Runner- ABS A wind up battery inside the handle having four AG10 alkaline batteries to power the LED bulbs Handle and wind up battery casing- ABS Four 5mm standard white LED bulbs at alternate tips of the umbrella, connected in parallel to the wind up battery The positive leg of the LED is connected to the wire (the red line shown in figure), while the negative leg is connected to the metallic frame of the umbrella. The positive terminal of the wind up battery is connected to the wire (the red line shown in figure) and the negative terminal is connected to the metallic frame of the umbrella; thus the electrical circuit gets complete.

The wire goes from the wind up battery, passing through the umbrella frame, till its tip, where the LED bulbs are placed.

Rib

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Runner

Wire

+

LED

Stretcher

+

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Tip

Spring stopper Tube

Press switch to turn on the LED bulbs

Push trigger to and fro to charge the battery

Bottom spring

Switch Trigger to wind up the battery

Tip cup

Handle

SCHEMATIC DRAWING

Recycle bin SHREDDER CONFID

ENTIAL

Shreds paper into thin linear strips

All papers and confidential documents are shredded in offices, before disposal, so that they are not misused.

RECYCLING UNIT

What if this paper can be recycled at your office and reclaimed back to plot some more ideas on it?

Recycle bin is a paper shredder which shreds A3 and A4 size paper into linear strips and recycles them back to handmade paper.

Thus all confidential documents and papers can be securely cleared in this without leaving behind any piece of information on it.

Makes pulp of all the shredded paper and recycles them

COMPETITION ENTRY FOR LG CUBE’S DESIGN INNOVATION AWARDS

Recycle bin When a user inserts A3 or A4 sheet of paper inside the slot of the shredder, it senses paper automatically and shreds it into linear strips

INSIDE RECYCLING UNIT Pores on spinner walls

1

2 Water gets thrown out from the pores

Spinner Water

Just press the recycle button to recycle paper

Cellulose fiber left on the walls of the spinner

Shredded paper Blade Motor 1 Motor 2

How it works?

Motor 1 rotates blade and makes pulp of shredded paper

Motor 2 rotates spinner in opposite direction of motor 1

After the pulp is formed motor 2 rotates the spinner in opposite direction and drains out all the water from the pulp. This happens because all the water gets thrown out of the pores due to the centrifugal force. Thus only a layer cellulose fiber is left behind on the spinner walls which can be dried and used as paper

Nomad In 2050 people will have less time for activities like preparing a meal. Most of them will eat pre packed or frozen food. Domestic living space will shrink.

This device works on wireless electricity and cooks food via electromagnetic waves. You just have to aim the device at the food to be cooked and the electromagnetic waves will do its job within a few seconds. It is as small as a cell phone (15cm x 4cm x 2cm).

To clean your dish, you just have to switch the mode to clean, aim the device at the dish and it will vaporize all the oil and water contents from the leftover food. The heat generated will kill all the germs on the dish. A high speed motor is attached at the front end of the device which would rotate the rim at high speed to remove the dry food from the dish.

COMPETITION ENTRY FOR ELECTROLUX DESIGN LAB 2010

Isotonic Drum

Turn camshaft to play music

Drum stick

This course was called mechanisms. Here we studied different mechanisms and developed Isotonic, where one just have to turn a crank to play music. It works on the simple principle of camshaft.

When you rotate the crank, the cam lobes pull up the drum sticks, (supported by tension springs) and strike the instruments. Here we have used junk like tin cans, plastic cans and waste MDF board as instruments.

Pivot

Crank Camshaft Bearing

Tension spring

Base

Side walls

This was a group project Team members: Ashish Sanklecha, Heena Trivedi, Tapan Agarwal Duration: 2 weeks

Symbol for the Indian Rupee

This was an open competition for all Indian nationalities where one had to design the symbol for the Indian Rupee which would reflect and capture the Indian ethos and culture.

The symbol alongside represents the Indian Rupee symbol where India is showing its image to the world. Thus the letter R is mirrored. The two parallel lines shows the graph of growing prosperity of India.

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COMPETITION ENTRY TO DESIGN THE SYMBOL FOR THE INDIAN RUPEE

Sketches | Model making | Form studies | Photography | Posterization

SKILL BASED WORK

Sketches

Medium: Pencil + Photoshop

Sketches

Medium: Pencil Colours, Dry Pastels and Chisel markers

Model making

We had this course to build our workshop skills and develop sensitivity towards different materials and how they behave. We learnt different workshop operations and methods in the process of making the model. Orthographic views of different parts were made before making the model. All minute details were observed carefully and replicated in 1 : 0.8 scale.

Original

Model SCALE- 1 : 0.8 Materials used: MDF, HIPS Duration: 4 weeks

Form studies

Form studies helped us to develop sensitivity towards different forms and visualize them in space. We manipulated elements of form to define a volume in space. Radii manipulation and form transition between 2D and 3D forms were key learnings from this course.

NATURE FORM: ATTRIBUTE- LAZY INSPIRATION- BRINJAL / EGGPLANT

PERFUME BOTTLE MODEL THEME- LUXURY

FORM TRANSITION

Photography

LIFE

BLUE GRASS AND THE GREEN SKY

This photograph was shortlisted in top 10 entries for photoflare international photography competition

Posterization

This was a college assignment, where one had to select an image from a magazine and posterize it.

The work alongside is done on a A3 sheet where we traced the image and painted it in four different colour schemes ( greyscale | Cool colours | warm colours | Monochrome ). The image was painted in patches to show different tones.

Medium: Poster colours

MAEER’s MIT Institute of Design AIM:

To work in varied fields of product design and develop green, ecological and useful products, which would play with the emotional and technological aspects.

EDUCATION:

2006 - Completed secondary education at St. Marys High School, Mount Abu, in ICSE board 2008 - Completed higher secondary education at ASIA English School, Ahmedabad, in SSC board 2010 - Presently at MAEER’s MIT Institute of Design, Pune, UG-3rd year, Product Design 2011 - Is currently enrolled at the Hong Kong Polytechnic university, for a student’s exchange programme

SKILLS:

Tapan Agarwal

E-mail: tpn.agarwal@gmail.com +852 94274712 +91 9764736891 DOB:19-01-1990 CURRENT ADDRESS: School of Design, AG101, Core A, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong PERMANENT ADDRESS: c/o Raj Agarwal, Near Panchayat bhawan, Main Bazar, Mount Abu-307501

Ability to observe, analyze and ideate Conceptualization through sketching and drawing Have reasonably good material and technical knowledge 3D Modeling - Rhinoceros 4.0, Catia V5, V-ray for rhino, Bunkspeed Hypershot Ability to create model using different materials for prototyping Editing and digital rendering - Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Autodesk SketchBook Pro

INTERESTS:

Photography, Curious to know about things, Listening and Playing Music (guitar), Football

EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES:

Headed an event called HELTER SKELTER (an adventure race), in a team, for the college festival QUASAR Our team won the first place in UnderConstruction, a major event held during QUASAR Initiated and completed landscaping of a part of our institute, in a team Currently is a part of team, desigining the institute’s amphitheater

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Thank you!