Individual Inventor Project
Partners:
None
None
Client: Myself
Designer: Myself
Designer: Myself
I feel that the phone case that I have isn't that protective enough for my phone making me fear for my phone and its condition however I really dislike trying to look for a new phone case to use because it's either too expensive or it isn't protective enough to my liking so instead I though why not make my own phone case and solve this conundrum I've been trying to deal with this way I have a phone case that meets up to my specifications and I get to make it the way I want to.
I do have to make sure that my phone even fits in the case so my measurements the phone case has to be fully functional and protective enough to allow me to keep it on my phone without having to constantly remove my phone from the case to do whatever like charging or turning up the volume on the phone or turning the phone off.
I was also hoping to make the case a modular one where I can take off parts and put new parts on the case to fulfill whatever need or situation the case may or may not be put in.
For time I know for a fact the whole thing is going to take 3 weeks this way everything is perfected to the best of my abilities by that point 2 of those 3 and hopefully more will be done trying to make the project a reality the other remaining week will be for planning, drawing (albeit I’m going to hate this part), and measuring (which has been going fine so far but not going to hold my breath) trying figuring out what I’m going to be doing (due to how precise this project has to be I need to be very cautious about what I do and plan ahead anything I do before I do it so that nothing messes up otherwise the whole project will be a disaster).
I do have to make sure that my phone even fits in the case so my measurements the phone case has to be fully functional and protective enough to allow me to keep it on my phone without having to constantly remove my phone from the case to do whatever like charging or turning up the volume on the phone or turning the phone off.
I was also hoping to make the case a modular one where I can take off parts and put new parts on the case to fulfill whatever need or situation the case may or may not be put in.
For time I know for a fact the whole thing is going to take 3 weeks this way everything is perfected to the best of my abilities by that point 2 of those 3 and hopefully more will be done trying to make the project a reality the other remaining week will be for planning, drawing (albeit I’m going to hate this part), and measuring (which has been going fine so far but not going to hold my breath) trying figuring out what I’m going to be doing (due to how precise this project has to be I need to be very cautious about what I do and plan ahead anything I do before I do it so that nothing messes up otherwise the whole project will be a disaster).
Planning:
For this project I will make a fully functional and hopefully a modular phone case that covers the entire body of the phone as well as when not in use will have an attachment that covers the screen (hopefully at least). now for plug-ins I can do one of 2 things: 1 being where there are open slots to allow said plug-ins such as a charger or AUX for headphones/ earbuds. 2 being where there is either sliding parts to cover these exposed areas by sliding them one way to cover up the slots and vice versa, flaps (albeit this would not work due to how small the parts would be) which would obviously work as any flap would, or removable parts that would be where these plug-in slots would normally be.
I unfortunately by all means is my fault and solely my fault no one else was unable to create a drawing relating to how I'm going to be making this project primarily because I dislike drawing by hand and I already knew what I was going to do due to the fact that I literally planned way ahead of schedule and by that I mean a week and just wanted to get to work building the case rather than planning something I already had planned long ago.
Final Product(s):
Phone case top piece assembly
Phone case bottom piece assembly
Phone case full assembly with screen protector on top of screen area
Phone case full assembly with screen protector on bottom of case
Phone case drawing file
Phone case exploded view drawing file
Phone case top half drawing file
Phone case bottom half drawing file
Phone case miscellaneous drawing file
Rendering(s):
Phone case top piece rendering
Phone case bottom piece rendering
Phone case full rendering 1
Review:
At the beginning of the project everything was going perfectly fine and was coming along rather quickly. There were hardly any issues at first and those that did arise were almost immediately solved. Everything was going great right up until the end where I stumbled into issue after issue having to deal with the program not cooperating with me for most of the issues and everything I tried would either not work or I couldn't do. Eventually it came down to one final issue which was the locking mechanism not only did I forget to add on a way for the locking mechanism to grab onto both pieces they needed to to do their jobs properly but also how they'd fit together afterwords. Solving the issues the locking mechanism provided me with were frustrating to say the least but I solved it and that's all that matters now. The project was fun, do-able, challenging, and mentally taxing at times unlike my other projects this one was my first project that I stuck with doing originally which feels great. Adding on to the fact that it is something that I will be able to use as I intended when I though of doing this project in the first place.