solarbird | playing around with design and physical pointers

More project-organiser project. The idea with this is that they’re printable placeholders – pointers, basically – for projects where the component parts are too big to be hung in the hanging organiser directly. The number refers to a bin or box by number, and the big blank area is for dry-erase marker, so you can write the project name on the placeholder.

Here’s an example, numbered 3, yellow background:

3D-printed hanging white rectangular plate with a black-outlined yellow square in upper left, with an embossed number 3

And what that points to is a storage area, something like this, with numbered larger boxes and/or bins, with all the same marking:

six boxes, 1-4 “medium” sized, 5-6 larger, labelled similarly to the reference plaque in the previous photo

I was playing around with the word “medium” and considering playing with the word “large” but I don’t think that’s worked out, so that’ll probably go away. I like the numbers and colours though. We’ll see what happens as I work out the graphics language.

Also the “3” on the actually 3D-printed version is effectively a tri-colour-filament print. I designed it to allow up to four colours but I didn’t swap out the last colour soon enough and unless you’re right there the top blue layer is basically invisible against the black. Still, live and learn.

It’s a little unfortunate that the fonts don’t match but tinkerCAD only has three fonts and none of them really match the ones I have on my Mac. xD

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