I pretty much revised the idea from my previous radio posting and played with the shape a little bit. The hardest thing for me was to fit the hexagonal shape within the dimensions we were given. I found it easy when the radio is closed but when it's open the petal covers would out stretch the limits. Thus the radio is quite small in this respect, If I can I would like to make the radio a little larger for greater emphasize and a larger speaker, important if your outdoors.
The petals are hinged from the base of the radio and don't get in the way of the user as the change stations. if you look within the radio the petals are flower petals (red) but if you look from the outside the petals are leaves (green) just for a bit of show and tell.
The on switch is opening the radio, and the off is closing the petals up to cover and protect the radio. Locking mechanism wise, I thought magnets contained within the petals would be the easiest solution and most efficient (less fiddly parts that could break).
A simple LCD, displaying the radio station and possibly the temperature but this would need another device impeded into the radio. Button operation to switch stations as a tuning knob was a bit to large in rotation (it would take a lot of space within the radio if i had a large circular knob).
I'm pretty happy with the overall form and the simplicity of it.
Peace and flower power to all you baby making hippies out there!
- Chris
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1 comment:
i think this is a cute idea because it is so simple but fun at the same time. I especially like the idea of opening up the petals to use the interface.
-Marisa
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