This was a year long Design and Technology: Resistant Materials project with the aim of using metals, woods, and plastics to create a high-end product for sale in a design museum. The brief was further constrained through needing to be a docking station, and needing to be designed in line with a particular design style. 

Through a rigorous research and design process, Modern Minimalism was chosen as the design style, and multiple initial designs were considered. Market research was conducted along with the use of decision matrices to finalise the initial design to further develop.

The design was created and iterated in Fusion360, concurrent with a manufacturing process being developed which could be completed within the school workshop. The manufacturing process used a jig to cut equal lengths of aluminium box section, a 3D printer to manufacture the dodecahedron vertices, a laser cutter to manufacture the shelf and the speaker mounts, and a band saw and router to manufacture the tabletop. The electronics were built from a commercially available docking station kit which required soldering all components onto a provided PCB. This was then connected to a powering circuit which could power the electronics using mains power.

The image at the top of this page shows the final product prototype in use. This project was a complete success, hitting all criteria both set out in the design brief and the assessment brief, with the assessment receiving a score of 100%. Should you wish to learn more about this project, commission a similar product, or read my final report, please contact me.