Consult 28/03 feedback onto summary of DIY context

Jan:
- Skip the lid 'cause you can fix small pieces into a little box on the panel and we have to try to make triangular structures with the panels.
- Really search online for massproduction connections
- Every hinche can be a flexible one!
- As hinche, we can use the system they use for normal, metal hinches. Just pieces of tubes on the sides op the panels where you can put a bar through. This bar is locked with a very small locking mechanism. You can also use it to attach the handel on.

Summary of the DIY context

Upper left: Folding the panels into shapes
Middel left: Upper panel with crosses, lower panel with squares
Upper right: Attaching mechanism, you slide the pieces with the rubber bands into the crosses en slide it to a direction in the cross so it sits sight. This bands are adjustable in size
Lower left: the lid to support the structure and to close the toolbox
Lower right: the hinces, flexible one with industrial zippers, the fixed one with a piece you can snap onto the slits that are normaly reserved for the lid.

Files for the lasercutted prototype in cardboard

Base panel (260 - 360 mm)

Prototypes lid

Consult 21/3

Davy:
Think constantly about the design in function of the materials and process.
He likes the idea of the panels that forms a box.
The connections are depended on the size production.
Context, dimensions and actions of the user can't change.

Jan:
Likes the organization
Think constantly about the design in function of the materials and process!
He thinks the lidn isn't necessairy, and we can just use another panel as lid.
Or seperated tools can always be fixed onto the panel
Don't make it too complex
Search for hinces that can be rotated and fixed whit some kind of mechanism.

Locking the panels onto each other

The panels have two kinds of locking mechanisms. On is a rotating one, and the other is a fixed on.

Idea for the rotating one:

This kind of rotatory mechanism consist on a panel with a movable flange be able to retract a block system when pull from it.  The locking mechanism is componen of a cylindrical plastic piece with differents sections which serve to block with others panels and it's attached to movable flange through a cord. The retraction is possible thanks to a elastic spring joined to the plastic piece.

starting again from scratch

Because the previous idea didn't worked at all, we came up with a new one.

We searched for a log time 'cause the best solution for making some organisation, add families of tools and seperated tools and to make the 'toolbox' adjustable for a many or less tools. We came to the conclusion that the easiest, cheapest and best way to do that, is to make adjustable panels that you can click together, hang them in your workingplace and which have many hole and some little attach device to make the organisation. It seems that almost 80% of the groups are doing that right now.

The previous idea was different than the other, what is always more fun and better for making a chance for the community. So it was difficult to leave it behind.

But we found a something new that isn't just a book:

These are panels and depending on how much of them you're taking with you, you can close them in a toolbox.

Different aspects:
- the little panels have two joints that can't move and two joint that can. You can detache easily those movable joints so you have a lid of the toolbox and so you can open the toolbox where everyou want.
The sides are closed with an adaptable lid so boxes of nails, glue, tape can be put into the box easily.

- For locking the tools, there are holes in the panels, where you can put a locking device in. This locking device is based on a springy borrow pin that they use to connect tubes in a platform.

These need to be a bit modified, but it's the springy mechanism that is important for us now.

- The sides of the toolbox are closed with flexible 'thing' that fits onto the different shapes

other old idee

The chosen concept

Remarks: choose a durable flexible textile, maybe a grid of elastic bands where you put the tools in between.

A rope trough the corners on the upside, so when you pull at the rope, the system closes. The rope, you can use as a handel to carry the toolboxx.

Think about big glue pots that maybe, they also can be integrated into the system. (Maybe we  can make the hard outer layers more flexible, so they bend around the glue pot)

Some pockets can be integrated to add nails, screws, ...

It is very innovative. It hase a nice combination of hard and flexible materials. Easy in use. Good organisation.

First iteration and ideas

A first idea

The idea to make some kind of belt with a row of hole in it. Out of those holes, you can pull out a little loop where you can put your tool in. All the loops are part of one big string. To tighten the whole, pull on the end of the string that sticks out somewhere.