3D Printed Stands: iPads and iPhones

 

Challenge: To show innovation and creation to produce a unique suitable for a student market day.

Background: This is the focus for our big school event this year a school market day showing innovation and creativity.

We have put our students into business groups and each of these groups has been tasked with some key questions - how can they use technology and innovation to produce something that is creative, unique and personalised.

One of our groups is focussed on having iPhone stands and iPad stands for various devices.   This group has used the Tinkercad design template and then altered it to meet their design needs (which in this instance was to adapt it for the different devices).   The personalisation of the stands has come in the form of lettering at the front, sunk into the sides and also a design feature on the back.

The student was also challenged with design task of making something that was unique and creative.   In this instance the student who created the project, who is a Y3 student, so a student who is seven years old, wanted to have the hand reaching out from the back of the design.

The 'iPads are the best' slogan at the back was intended to be more of a example of what could be done rather than something that needed to feature for the design (and a point of difference for the selling process will be the personalisation of this and other text).

We previously had created numerous iPad stands including this one with built in storage from 2018.   Another version of this was completed in 2019 with a slightly different design.

A secondary project and potential product came from the same process, however the base design was adapted by the student for an iPhone stand.  We have produced a number of iPhone stands in the past, which you can locate via the search bar on the right hand side of this blog.

In this example the phone stand has had a similar process undertaken to ensure that it is completed successfully.   This means as well as the basic stand shape there is a persons name built into the base of the design, where the phone sits, the back as a personalised message and the addition of some basic graphics and details.

Size: There are two seperate prints in this project.  The iPhone is of course the smaller one measuring 80mm wide and 80mm deep.   It was also 80mm high and the wedge extended out 20mm and the lettering and illustrations raised 5mm from the back of the design.  It took two and a half hours to print.

The iPad stand measures 120mm across is 90mm long and 90mm high.    The wedge was 20mm high and the graphic at the back of the stand measures 10mm out.   

The iPad stand took four hours to complete.   Given the dimensions of the prints, the purpose of the print these are able to function as required.