This is a project I have been working on in my spare time. I wanted to look at reducing electronic waste that we throw away. I came up with Bubble - earbud headphones that can be repaired at home. Earbuds are renowned for breakages, being replaced often due to wear and tear and flimsy wiring. Bubble allows these flimsy parts to be replaced and upgraded over time.

This Keytidy was a project that I worked on in my spare time. It was designed to make keys more comfortable inside a pocket by keeping all the keys flat against one another and confined within the casing. The design was chosen because it was simple to make and inexpensive with a unit cost under £5 including components, colouring and packaging, and could be produced at low volumes without hindering cost.

Smart Home Integrated Baby Monitor

Peekaboo is a smart home integrated, app controlled baby monitor system that I developed for my final year project at university. The project resulted in a working prototype that could live stream a video feed through to a mobile application over a local wifi network.

Peekaboo aimed to give parents more control over their baby’s room. If a sleeping child began to cry during a nap, a parent could check the app and interfere from a different room instead of having to disturb the child’s sleep cycle. From the app they could, for example, turn on an auto rocker feature on a crib control the lighting or adjust the temperature to help send the child back to sleep.

A new lunchbox to improve the eating experience at National Trust sites.

The SnackPack is the result of a final year project aiming to improve visual skills. The module focused on rendering and graphical elements. This was demonstrated in a project where a lunch time experience was developed for the National Trust, who look after heritage sites in the UK.

The idea behind the SnackPack was that a national trust member could enter a site and purchase a backpack which contained enough food for them and the people they were with. This could be transported around the grounds until a suitable lunch spot was chosen. Once consumed the backpack would be returned to a purchase point.

An alternative to conventional hand dryers

Drying hands in public toilets is a frustrating process. The hand dryers are either too weak or seem to blow the skin of your hands! The alternative is paper towels which produce unwanted waste.

Mist aimed to dry hands with an entirely new approach. Water is sprayed onto the hands in a fine mist which at the right consistency would clean the hands, and, over a short amount of time, the water would evaporate.

Radshape Engineering

During my placement year I worked for Radshape - an engineering company based in Aston. I worked as a CAD technician intern, designing and developing products for their RadshapeRC brand which specialised in radio controlled car accessories

I was tasked with removing costs from an existing product, a sankey trailer. I successfully managed to reduce production costs by 20% by removing unnecessary operations.

Aligning a product with a brand.

This was a final year project that involved exploring the traits of brands and applying there own philosophies to a product. I was asked to design 3 concepts for rehydration aids.

I looked into Patagonia - a clothing brand with a heavy focus on sustainability. They target sports that have little damaging impact on the world. This was emulated in the products I designed by using materials that had as few by-products as possible and kept the focus on the sport at hand..

An innovative light to help new parents sleep.

Lume was a final year project aiming to help improve sleep for parents who have a new born baby. The brief was part of the RSA design competition.

Lume works like a conventional light but can be detached from its stand and moved around. Additionally to ease the eyes into waking up, it gradually brightens over time if the parent has to tend to their child. It will slowly dim to darkness after.