Object Design and Fabrication 110

     I decided to fully commit to my spinner idea in the end. I engraved circles into the bearing caps to provide better grip and a more interesting tactile experience when interacting with the coaster. I think overall it came out how I planned it to. A lot of my numbers came down to guess-work and I was lucky enough that all of my measurements turned out to be correct. My biggest issue though was the rod that was going to go inside of the bearing to reduce friction of the caps had fallen through the laser cutter grate both times and I couldn't recover them. I tried to improvise a solution through using tape and toothpciks to suspend the caps just above the edges of the bearing, but this didn't work as well as I had hoped, nor was it very permanent. One of the elements of my design that I had erased from my initial concepts were the weights on the edges of the spinner. I thought it would be best to simply my design as I had not worked with this sort of material before and...

      I decided to follow through with my spinner design, changing the silhouette to look less like a classic fidget spinner. The hole in the middle will be where the bearing sits in, and the bearing caps will be cut to sit flush with the rest of the spinner so it can rest on a table flat. I anticipate the need to make a top plate to ensure the thickness is larger than the bearing itself, but that won't be hard to do later on. The holes on the edges will likely be filled with metal or magnets to add weight and allow it to spin better. My main material will be birch plywood.

     My favorite concepts out of this set are the clock coasters, the spinner, and the ornamental cup holder. I feel the cup holder will be the easiest as far as production goes, but I would like to see the spinner through as I think it has a lot of potential. I was thinking of using magnets as weights so it could be stored as a fridge magnet or stacked in a set. I also think there's a lot of possibilities as far as ornamentation and decoration of it goes.