instructables submissions from #PTRdesigns

instructable's the really cool DIY website is having a competition named "make it real" where you can win a 3D printer. My good friend has submitted lots of work to this site. I decided I should submit some of my own designs because, hey why not.

The first one I submitted was the "Its Money Clip" design: http://www.instructables.com/id/Plastic-Money-Clip/

The second was my "lil dudes for kids" design (pictured above): http://www.instructables.com/id/PTRdesigns-lildudes-for-kids/

Vote for my Idea for Quirky

Remember Design-A-Day? By this time last year it was in full effect. So what happened to all those projects? Well as you my diligent readers know, some have been submitted to design competitions and others to Design awards. But what about the rest? With a little tightening up of the original sketches Quirky might be the best place for them.

Here is a link to the Quirky post for the first submit ed, please vote for it: http://www.quirky.com/ideations/208497?sc=true


A tiered container gardening system that uses trickle down watering to share nutrients and a hydroponic water reservoir for the roots.

V4 22 PTR Chair 2

This is the rendering for the PTR Chair 2 that I did the sketches for on V4 22. A more rounded version of my PTR Chair the molded plastic stack-able chairs.

Coming Soon...

U-Charge It: EV charging stations for public places
Beer Pedal Kart: Try and get a DUI on this
On the Fence: Gardening System

I am still working and doing an idea day but I am focusing on working through the good ones!

V5 19 pinheads logo and season trophies

If you wondered why my blog posts were always lacking on Friday it is because of my bowling league on Thursday. This year we won both the Thursday League and the Interleague championship!

We have not ever had shirts or a logo or anything just a bunch of people who liked to drink and bowl. So after we dominated both the Thursday league and Interleague we are in dire need of a logo. I worked on some sketches for a logo. I also developed a trophy for each person on the team.

V5 18 Infiniti race track

This is an interesting idea I had for a flexible race track that you can bend in anyway to make the car run! It is interactive bendy race track!

Drawing coming

v5 17 iPhone Photo Studio

I need this!

V5 16 build your own Action Figure

Who wouldn't want to do this!

05 15 educational tablet

Edu Tab for Elementary and Middle Schools, description on drawing!

05 13 Metal Suction Baking with Sifter

This is project I worked on with my Uncle James who is a professional baker. We discussed products that do not exsist that would make his life easier as baker.

It is simply a large metal bowl with a sifter that can be attached securely.

(DRAWING COMING)

05 12 Bouncy Shoes and Sleds

I have seen the fancy bouncy that are complicated and make you look something like mecha warrior. These are much more simple sandals with plastic frames that you slip over your shoes with bouncy cushions on the bottom.

Super Sled! Stand Up? Sit down? Or do it all in one place. This is sled (or possible water craft for boat towing).

Bouncy Shoes


starting sketches:

V5 11 Foam Ninja Star Game

This is game where you throw foam ninja stars with hooks on them at either hanging rings for points, targets mounted to the wall or targets placed around in space.

v5 07 bottle cars and novelty flying disk launcher

I have no idea I was up at 4am fishing and got home at noon, slept till 4:30 and starting atempting to think at 6pm. This is what I came up with.

v5 11 iDocks and iBamboo

details coming

v5 09 Hey Guy Game

I am not really sure about this. It was late on Monday night and I drew this explanation coming later.

v5 08 the great fish off

I spent today cleaning and preparing over 40lbs of fish. I grilled, sauteed and smoked it.

Caught Fish:


Lots of Fish:


Fish Tacos:


Smoked Fish:

v5 06 Roller'z

Wooden plastic toy to help infants and toddlers move around.

v5 04 night light guy and marble racing

Ok I did some concepts so the executive money clip will have to wait.

The 2 concepts developed last night are the night light guy. It is a dome night light that you can cover with little guys either cute animals or little monsters. They will be a mix of translucent, semi translucent and opaque material. They sit in dock and can be lifted off to be taken off for late night adventures. The other concept was Marble Racers. Which marbles that look like cars and the packaging turns into a race track (Lauren thought of the 2nd part)

v5 03 water rocket gun

This was just random idea I had combining a normal gardening hose to shoot a soft rocket. I call it the water rocket gun. Just screw the gun to the hose mount the rocket on the end pull the trigger once to build pressure and pull it again to fire the rocket off. Who knows if it would work but it could be cool. I original thought of just a water gun that looked like a real gun to mount to your hose for plant watering.

v5 02 white board toy

Well it's day one of the 2nd month of #designAday. The focus this month will be toys and fun and funny things! I should still be able to develop concepts that can be produced even if some ideas are whimsical and absurd!

I still want to develop several of the concepts from month one, but I can not stop the brain storming for month 2.

I just sketched out a basic abstract figure that would be molded in high gloss plastic similar to a white board that way you can sketch on the figure, leave note and be creative without it being permanent. The figure needs a little work (a lot)! I love the idea of the dunnie that you can draw on yourself, but what if your drawing sucks, well you ruined your toy. This would never happen with this toy. It would also have interchangeable parts so you could build and draw on different figures.