PROJECT SUMMARY

A project aimed to build a toy with only mechanical functions. Elephante is a hand crafted, and 3D printed mechanical toy that comes to life when the tail is wound.

PROJECT DETAILS

Software Used
Solidworks
3D Printing

A hand crafted mechanical elephant.

ELEPHANTE

Ideation

I knew I wanted to do an elephant so I did a quick ideation of how I can turn this elephant into a toy.

Possible functions: legs move, nose moves, ears move, nose squirts water, and tail winds to make the toy move.

Detail Ideation

I wanted the elephant to have some design details, so I sketched a few ideas of how I can make the toy have a modern look.

Mechanism Ideation

Sketching out how to mechanism would work and how the mechanical functions would interact.

Mechanism Flow Chart

The crank will rotate the gears

The gears will rotate the rod

The rod will rotate the O-ring

The cams will be located at the ends
of the rod underneath the ears

The O-ring will rotate the rod that is connected to the cams

The ears will move!

Start:

Initial Mockup

Using foam core, wooden skewers, and laser cut plastic sheets I created a mockup to get an idea of how the mechanisms would work.

Gears

Cams

Initial Prototype

Using foam core, wooden skewers, and laser cut plastic sheets I created a mockup to get an idea of how the mechanisms would work.

Prototype Issues

- The main body didn't line up properly
- The ear mechanism did not work 100% of the time
- The nose mechanism would get stuck and not function.

Solutions

- The body was 3D printed in a different configuration so the pieces didn't come out warped.

-The gears were replaced so there was more tolerance so the ear mechanism would work 100%.

-The nose function was swapped with a water squirting function, because it was more reliable

Final Prototype

Modular Nose

Interchangeable noses allow users to choose between water function opposed to a nose that stays idle.

How it works

Check valve at the bottom of the barrel sucks water in from the bottom and pushes water out through the nose through pump action.

Inter-workings

Mechanical components in the body are constructed with miter gears, o-rings and cams.

Rotational movement in the tail rotates the gears that is on the o-ring. The o-ring is attached to a shaft that has two cams on the ends which rotate and move the ears up and down.

Mechanical components in the barrel are constructed of valves, check valves, and
o-rings.

Pump action to the barrel allows water to be sucked in through the check valve located on the bottom of the barrel. Water is then pushed out through another check valve in the nose.

CELINA GINES

PROJECT SUMMARY

A project aimed to build a toy with only mechanical functions. Elephante is a hand crafted, and 3D printed mechanical toy that comes to life when the tail is wound.

PROJECT DETAILS

Software Used
Solidworks
3D Printing

ELEPHANTE

Ideation

I knew I wanted to do an elephant so I did a quick ideation of how I can turn this elephant into a toy.

Possible functions: legs move, nose moves, ears move, nose squirts water, and tail winds to make the toy move.

Detail Ideation

I wanted the elephant to have some design details, so I sketched a few ideas of how I can make the toy have a modern look.

Mechanism Ideation

Sketching out how to mechanism would work and how the mechanical functions would interact.

Mechanism Flow Chart

The crank will rotate the gears

The gears will rotate the rod

The rod will rotate the O-ring

The cams will be located at the ends
of the rod underneath the ears

The O-ring will rotate the rod that is connected to the cams

The ears will move!

Start:

Initial Mockup

Using foam core, wooden skewers, and laser cut plastic sheets I created a mockup to get an idea of how the mechanisms would work.

Gears

Cams

Initial Prototype

Using foam core, wooden skewers, and laser cut plastic sheets I created a mockup to get an idea of how the mechanisms would work.

Prototype Issues

- The main body didn't line up properly
- The ear mechanism did not work 100% of the time
- The nose mechanism would get stuck and not function.

Solutions

- The body was 3D printed in a different configuration so the pieces didn't come out warped.

-The gears were replaced so there was more tolerance so the ear mechanism would work 100%.

-The nose function was swapped with a water squirting function, because it was more reliable

Final Prototype

Modular Nose

Interchangeable noses allow users to choose between water function opposed to a nose that stays idle.

How it works

Check valve at the bottom of the barrel sucks water in from the bottom and pushes water out through the nose through pump action.

Inter-workings

Mechanical components in the body are constructed with miter gears, o-rings and cams.

Rotational movement in the tail rotates the gears that is on the o-ring. The o-ring is attached to a shaft that has two cams on the ends which rotate and move the ears up and down.

Mechanical components in the barrel are constructed of valves, check valves, and
o-rings.

Pump action to the barrel allows water to be sucked in through the check valve located on the bottom of the barrel. Water is then pushed out through another check valve in the nose.

Barrel Mechanism

PROJECT SUMMARY

A project aimed to build a toy with only mechanical functions. Elephante is a hand crafted, and 3D printed mechanical toy that comes to life when the tail is wound.

PROJECT DETAILS

Software Used Solidworks 3D Printing

ELEPHANTE

Ideation

I knew I wanted to do an elephant so I did a quick ideation of how I can turn this elephant into a toy.

Possible functions: legs move, nose moves, ears move, nose squirts water, and tail winds to make the toy move.

Detail Ideation

I wanted the elephant to have some design details, so I sketched a few ideas of how I can make the toy have a modern look.

Mechanism Ideation

Sketching out how to mechanism would work and how the mechanical functions would interact.

Mechanism Flow Chart

The crank will rotate the gears

The gears will rotate the rod

The rod will rotate the O-ring

The cams will be located at the ends of the rod underneath the ears

The O-ring will rotate the rod that is connected to the cams

The ears will move!

Start:

Initial Mockup

Using foam core, wooden skewers, and laser cut plastic sheets I created a mockup to get an idea of how the mechanisms would work.

Gears

Cams

Initial Prototype

Using foam core, wooden skewers, and laser cut plastic sheets I created a mockup to get an idea of how the mechanisms would work.

Prototype Issues

- The main body didn't line up properly - The ear mechanism did not work 100% of the time - The nose mechanism would get stuck and not function.

Solutions

- The body was 3D printed in a different configuration so the pieces didn't come out warped. -The gears were replaced so there was more tolerance so the ear mechanism would work 100%. -The nose function was swapped with a water squirting function, because it was more reliable

Final Prototype

Modular Nose

Interchangeable noses allow users to choose between water function opposed to a nose that stays idle.

How it works

Check valve at the bottom of the barrel sucks water in from the bottom and pushes water out through the nose through pump action.

Inter-workings

Mechanical components in the body are constructed with miter gears, o-rings and cams. Rotational movement in the tail rotates the gears that is on the o-ring. The o-ring is attached to a shaft that has two cams on the ends which rotate and move the ears up and down.

Mechanical components in the barrel are constructed of valves, check valves, and o-rings. Pump action to the barrel allows water to be sucked in through the check valve located on the bottom of the barrel. Water is then pushed out through another check valve in the nose.

Barrel Mechanism

Software Used
Solidworks
3D Printing

The cams will be located at the ends
of the rod underneath the ears

- The main body didn't line up properly
- The ear mechanism did not work 100% of the time
- The nose mechanism would get stuck and not function.

- The body was 3D printed in a different configuration so the pieces didn't come out warped.

-The gears were replaced so there was more tolerance so the ear mechanism would work 100%.

-The nose function was swapped with a water squirting function, because it was more reliable

Mechanical components in the body are constructed with miter gears, o-rings and cams.

Rotational movement in the tail rotates the gears that is on the o-ring. The o-ring is attached to a shaft that has two cams on the ends which rotate and move the ears up and down.

Mechanical components in the barrel are constructed of valves, check valves, and
o-rings.

Pump action to the barrel allows water to be sucked in through the check valve located on the bottom of the barrel. Water is then pushed out through another check valve in the nose.