intro

This is the define, dream, deliver and debrief process for our electric house problems. Paula, Elodie, Rena and myself all faced many of our own and group problems and frustrations while building this house and its circuits but the one problem we decided to focus on was organizing wires . They were becoming difficult to work with and we new they’d be a problem.

Define

We found it hard to organize wires especially bigger ones with lots of slack. Wires would get tangled and it was hard to follow where the wires connected to. The wires would often be distracting and time consuming to detangle.  We needed to solve this dilemma in an organized way, so we used a 3d printer to create a wire holder. we figured a wire holder would be able to hold more than one wire if we measured big enough.

Dream

We wanted something easy to print so we came up with a design of a square with two long tube like holes inside it. The long wires can loop through  the two tubes as many times as it needs to too shorten and that gets them organized and out of the way. It was the first time using a 3d printer for some of us so at first we were really nervous. That’s why we decided to go with a simpler design since we didn’t want to ruin what we could already do. There was many ideas but we all agreed in the end that this would be the most useful one. Originally, the  holder was supposed to hold all the ends of the wire to the battery.

deliver

Unfortunately, the printer wasn’t working when we needed to print so our holder came late. When it did come, we found that it printed well. However, the tubes were too small to hold all the wires and its clump at the end to the battery. So we decided to use it to organize loose and long wires. The only thing I would have changed is I would have made more holders because we still had lots of wires that needed to be sorted.