CLOCK RADIO Rhiannon Fekete, Laura Hart, Zornitsa Vachkova
“I never knew of a morning in Africa, when I woke up and was not happy”
–Ernest Hemingway
Inspiration
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Developed Idea
Orthographic
Scale 1:5 (mm)
Clock
Top View
Top View
Front View
Front View
Side View
Side View Bottom View
Bottom View
Radio
Clock & Radio
Section
Orthographic
Scale 1:5 (mm)
Clock
Top View
Top View
Front View Front View
Side View
Side View Bottom View
Bottom View
Radio
Clock & Radio
Section
Exploded View
Remove radio and rotate 90Ëš clockwise
Radio
Clock
Materials & Manufacturing Injection Moulding: Polyethylene (PE) For all exterior Colours: Black & Yellow
Acetate
Inside to protect pictures Transparent and Clear
Mechanism:
Clock: Time is set automatically via Global Positioning System. Radio: receives AM and FM satellite signals via internal antena.
First we make a mould of the clock and the radio. Granules of plastic powder are poured or fed into a hopper which stores it until it is needed. A heater heats up the tube and when it reaches a high temperature a screw thread starts turning. A motor turns a thread which pushes the granules along the heater section which melts them into a liquid. The liquid is forced into a mould where it cools into the shape. The mould then opens and the unit is removed.
Batteries
Clock: Silver Oxide Button Cell Radio: AAA battery
Renders
Renders
Model
Scale 1:1
National Geographic Clock & Radio We chose to design a clock and radio for National Geographic because their image is travel and we wanted to create a clock for travellers, so they can have a clock to wake up with and a radio to listen to whilst travelling. We Measured in mm
used the logo to create the shape of the radio clock, so it would be easily recognisable and also simple for manufacturing, reducing the cost of production of the product.
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From the orthographic drawings above, it shows the digital clock with the digital radio slotted in the middle. 5. This the clock by itself with a digital 24 hour clock face on the exterior with a 25mm yellow margin to represent the logo of the company. The time is set automatically via GPS. This is a section of what the radio looks like on the inside, with the black line being the clock face, leaving space on the inside to hold photographs which can be protected when the radio is inside the clock or visible when the radio not inside. 6. The clock will be powered by silver oxide button cell batteries because whilst travelling it will be difficult to charge through electricity so we thought batteries would be more efficient.
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For production we wanted to make our product quick, cheap and efficient, because National Geographic will be getting no profit from this product. So we wanted to use manufacturing methods that were fast and materials that were cheap. Also we only had one colour variation because if we had different colour variations the
This is the digital radio separated from the clock, it has a 12.5mm yellow margin so when taken out of the clock it’s still recognisable as National Geographic. The radio contains an LED screen to see what radio channel you are on and the volume, then there is a round speaker, below that there is an on button, a headphone and aux connecters, and 4 square buttons which are volume up and down and radio channel left and right. The radio will also be powered by batteries but AAA battery. It will also have an internal antenna, so it won’t effect the aesthetic of the radio.
product would not be recognisable to the company. The manufacturing method we chose for our product is injection moulding. This means we need to create a mould for plastic to be injected into, which will be the most expensive part of the production but by using this method we hope mass production will be fast and efficient.
Polyethylene (PE) Plastic: Using colours yellow and black so it fits with the logo of National Geographic. Also relatively cheap and easy to use, recyclable, goof for mass production.
Acetate: Using to protect the photo behind the digital clock. Cheap and easy to use
Rhiannon Fekete, Laura Hart, Zornitsa Vachkova