Muhammad Hakeem Bin Hussain
Polytechnic Foundation Programme
The idea here is to create an outdoor flower pot that would absorb the sun's rays during the day and convert it into energy to power the grow lights at night so that the plant inside does not stop growing.
This portrait symbolizes the pack nature of humans. We will pack-bond with anything. The portrait shows 3 human hands. One having more wrinkles to show age, coloured fingernails to show gender, darker skin to show race, a suit to show financial standing and even a paw to show species. Humans were meant to connect to other living beings and this painting celebrates that fact.
For a class, my friend Wayn and I went to Chijmes cathedral and
took some pictures to create a structure based on the things we saw there. I was inspired to create this downward spiral of the different textures I saw there and the standard wedding vows were written onto the edge of the spiral. It was meant to demonstrate the stages of marriage.
Purely a structure, Breaking Free was meant to represent a quality that we had as a form of self-expression. What I did was to take a somewhat literal approach and depicted a person flying away from his chains. There were 3 chains to break away from.
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'Bullying' chain was broken meaning it was a problem I had gotten over.
At the point of making the structure, 'Insecurities' had already been a long-standing issue so the chain was rusted. Asking me now, that chain should be broken as well.
Lastly, faith, I had never been the religious type and don't plan to be yet my family does expect it of me. I foresee this to be a problem that will last much longer.
UV Flower Pot
Harmony
Road to Marriage
Breaking Free
Year 1 Polytechnic
The design of this mouse is meant to have a pinky rest on the right side and a separate 'Alt' button on the left, hence the name. This mouse is meant to be used by users of Adobe software. They often have to zoom in and out of their project and the shortcut for that is
(Alt + Scroll) so the concept of this mouse is useful for them.
The revolve form is shown by the downward slopes on the pastry. The 2 depressions going down the sides cause a 'spiral' much like a firework spinning or revolving through the air. This form is meant to portray a pastry that would entice younger consumers.
The duality of colour was chosen and mixed without the proper separation. The target audience, in theory, would appreciate the 'graffiti' style mixture of a colour with splashes of one hue overextending to the other. The colours and title itself is a pun on the popular song "Purple Light" normally sung by men serving National Service and those in Uniform Groups
This Illustration was created using a reference image that I took off a panda plushie with my earpiece attached.
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The intent was to make the illustration as realistic as possible and we achieved that using a feature of Adobe Illustrator that allowed us to adapt the shading of each area of a shape.
This lamp is meant to be used by DIY enthusiasts who work in their garage or any small space that does not get much light. The lamp uses a base that doubles as a place to keep used sandpaper. This helps the user keep track of their sanding to ensure it doesn't get lost or they don't miss-sand their workpiece.
The base is also detachable and has layers of sand-seal so it is washable when it gets dusty. However, it must be dried completely before attaching it back to the lamp by the use of a magnet.
Alt Mouse
Purple Lime
Heart Break Bear
Infinity Lamp
Year 2 Polytechnic
One module had each group prepare 4 keywords, and create a mask together. Our keywords being: Controlled, Contorted, Layered, Sinuous.
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It is initially made out of cardboard and covered in plaster, paint as well as putty to create the finish. We then wore our masks in front of a projector and used images to add another layer of detail for the final presentation.
Athena
The assignment was to create a functioning Floor Lamp and to use only cardboard, glue, and twine. It was to test our resilience to adapt the cardboard such that the lamp functioned well.
Crooked Hour
The side table captures the feeling of a cattail plant that you would normally find in a garden. Its purpose is to bring the user to a place in their mind where they are more comfortable to do some reading. They can store their books below the clear tabletop and read them when they please.
Ms. Furtune
Pakain
One cultural habit that the Malay community has is to keep old rags and cloth. These fabrics are used to clean surfaces in an effort to reduce waste and make use of materials to their fullest extent. The kinds of surfaces that these fabrics are used to clean are mostly flat surfaces like stovetops, countertops and kitchen tables. Some of these cloths can be quite smooth and thus, it would be difficult to remove some of the tougher stains. This concept is meant to promote the sustainable habits of these users.
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​Step 1: Prepare a cloth (20 x 10)cm
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Step 2: Stretch the cloth as much as possible
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Step 3: Place Pakain on the cloth and attach it by the velcro
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Step 4: Wet the surface meant to be
cleaned and use Pakain to wipe away stains
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Step 5: Dispense soap to kill germs and add lubrication to stains. Wash away residue
The most difficult CAD drawing i've made to date. It is made up of 26 individual parts.
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This mouse was made by the company ALCATROZ. The CAD drawing and the render were done by me in class for an assignment using a software called Rhino. This assignment took many hours and was our first venture into complex products.
Year 3 Polytechnic
This project was meant for IKEA to use in their playground. The structure is a maze with a singular moving piece that was able to move independently across 3 levels. Each level posed a new type of mirror that would trip up the children when trying to move around the maze.
Student Internship Programme
There are phone cases that have built in housings for your bus card. My phone case did not have this. It is however shock absorbent and waterproof so I did not want to change it. The solution I came up with was to 3D print my own bus card holder and stuck it to the back of my phone case. After making this however, I realized that a group of people that could benefit from this is primary schoolers. They are starting to have access to phones nowadays. I knew this because of a survey that I sent out. That is also the age that they receive their first bus cards and have to learn how to be responsible for maintaining their own belongings. That is why this project could be useful for them to learn how to keep their belongings in a clever manner and have a taste at making something beneficial for them.
ALCATROZ Mouse CAD
Mirror Maze
3D Print EZ Link Case
Printerior is a concept that employs cardboard prototyping skills, basic 3D printing and making use of LED light strips. The concept is akin to a doll house. Doll houses are good mediums for imaginative play and the Printerior concept allows the maker to combine it with creative play. The maker has access to a 3D Printer for the sake of this project and a short amount of LED light strips. What they do is to create a layout for their own dollhouse out of cardboard. A custom amount of rooms, sizes and roofing all decided by them. They are then encouraged to create their own furniture using a basic 3D Modeling software, have it printed and placed into the dollhouse to act as the interior. Thus, it creates a
custom, printed interior. A printerior. The LED strips come in last to provide lighting for the home. A micro:bit can also be included to create basic functions such as a doorbell, alarm or a representation of a Television.
Printerior
Pegboard
The pegboard was a project meant to enhance the office and allowed us a chance to brush up on our wood working before going back to school. It took a large amount of wood as each pegboard was a metre wide, a metre long and almost two metres tall. It required team work for the drilling portions and accurate cutting as we had to be efficient in terms of material usage.
Laser Cutting Workshop
In the office, we had a LionsForge Laser Cutter. Tinkermind had not come up with a project to teach people the ins and outs of a laser cutter so I was given the task to come up with a basic project that could entice them into learning. My first thought was what makes a
laser cutter so attractive and my mind immediately went to fast paced prototyping so my basic project was to create a bunch of small connectors that could be used to make a sort of open ended puzzle. The pieces put together could create a number of functional objects. I used them to create a phone holder and it later became sturdy enough to hold all my valuables. The project ended up becoming one to create a phone holder with as little pieces as possible.
Asteroids Workshop
I spent some time designing codes for the micro:bit. Some easy as 30 lines of code, some a little more complicated. I achieved this by watching some Youtube videos and consulting a coworker of mine about parts that I could not understand. One code was a rendition of the game Asteroids in which the maker was able to play the game endlessly on their micro:bit. I have actually done a Facebook Live Session detailing how to go about making this code and how to adapt it in your own style. This Live Session was hosted by the MakeIt Facebook group that tinkermind often contributes to.
The Virtual Maze was the most major project of my internship. The general idea was to have a class of students control a Qdee Robotthat would navigate in the darkness of a (1.5m x 1.5m) modular
maze.
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The Maze
The maze was constructed using mostly wood with some 5mm acrylic, almost a dozen mirrors and a blanket’s worth of black cloth. It was arranged to be a 6 x 6 square grid cordoned off by 4 walls. The Qdee starts in one of the edge squares. The maze walls were individual pieces that were laser cut to fit perfectly in drilled holes on the floor pieces. You could add and remove the walls making the maze different every time. There were 3 kinds of walls: one of pure wood, one with a mirror attached and one of black opaque acrylic. These take effect when the cloth is draped over the entire maze thrusting the Qdee into darkness. In the centre of some squares was a magnetfitted using a 3D print.
The Qdee
The Qdee came with a controller, a micro:bit in each of them. The base code was given to me by my coworker for a different project. I edited it to fit the intended controls for the maze and letit run. A camera made for the students to see from the P.O.V ofthe Qdee was attached using a 3D print that I designed.
The App Creation
At the bottom of the Qdee there was a secondary micro:bit that was constantly detecting magnetic pulls. The purpose of this was to allow the students a way to see that they were going the wrong way. How this works is that the magnets would be placed in squares that the Qdee was not supposed to go to. The micro:bit at the bottom ofthe Qdee would detect the fluctuations in the magnetic levels. The students then would be able to see this and know not to proceed. The issue was how to show this information to the students. Thankfully, a coworker referred me to a website called MIT App Inventor. Using this website, I created an app that could connect to the micro:bit through bluetooth and show the values given by the magnetometer in real time.