Final Project: Looks-Like Model

At first, my group was confused on why we had to work on works-like model before looks-like model. But, we realized this order made more sense. We had to make sure all the main components functioned correctly before considering the appearance.

For our looks-like model, we had a general understanding of what our music reader would look like (from our brainstorming step, but we made several adjustments. We measured each part (motherboard, photocells, motor, sound box, LED light, scroll moving mechanism) to help us draw accurate models using Solidworks.

We decided to use wood for our material (because of the price and our music reader would look an old music box).

Our assembly drawing on Solidworks

The drawer is where one would find the motherboard (we are planning to cover the "ugly" motherboard for aesthetics). 

The top box is where the photocells would be located. 

Music reader with motherboard.

The other side of the music reader. The musical notes are there for decoration, the bigger holes are there for wires. The smaller holes and the opening are there for the scroll ends. The upper box is where the photocells and the LED light would be located. The motor will be under the smaller holes (on the right of this drawing).

Engineering Drawing of our parts. We will be using the laser cutter to actually create our music reader.

We also created models of some of our parts using cardboard to better understand what the music reader would look like.