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Optical Toy: Anant Bhakar

2023/12/06
Situation
You have been hired to design a toy or novelty device that
uses one or more of the following properties:
- Reflection
- Total internal reflection (fiber optics)
- Refraction
Problem
Criteria:
The lenses and mirrors need to be removable - can’t be
glued down or taped.
Who is using your product - adults , teens or children,
make it based on their wants
Must be sustainable
Investigation Convex lens
Box

Mirror

Eyepeice
My optical device is a toy that uses lenses and mirrors
to create a distorted image which the player sketch out
2 modes, easy and hard
There will be a converging lens which the player will Image(on phone)
look through into a box. They will be looking at a mirror Top view of toy
inside the box that is positioned on a 45 degree angle
relative to the lens
The mirror will laterally invert the image and the lens
will magnify it and invert it. All these components will
change the shape of the image, and the player will have
to sketch out what the original image was
Will have a phone holder so phone can show images
Original Image What the player sees
Construction - Planning
Bill of Materials Mode: Easy Mode: Hard
Shoebox: 15cmx32cmx10cm
The lens will be placed 10 The lens will be placed 15 cm
5cm lens: 1.5cm radius cm away from the mirror, away from the mirror, and
and the viewer will be the viewer will be seeing the
Mirror: 8.5cmx7cm lens from 15 cm away. This
seeing the lens from 10 cm
will create an image that will
2x Paper: 21.59 x 27.94 cm away. This will create an
be inverted and bigger
image that will be inverted,
Cardboard: 60cmx60cm (making the image burly as
along with the mirror will well), along with the mirror
Tape/hot glue make it latterly inverted. will make it latterly inverted.
Construction - Sketch
Box
Converging lens
Mirror

Eyepeice

Image
Top view of toy
Construction - Final Design
Construction - Final Design

Top

*Note: Sketch-
up web doesn’t
allow for hidden
Front Side lines
Construction
Step 1 Step 2 Step 3
Make a tube out of Place 3 cardboard slips as Draw an imaginary line
shown, and make sure the from the center of the
thin cardboard and
mirror and the shoebox walls mirror towards the front
tape it together. Cut 2 from a isosceles triangle, of the showbox. Cut out a
holes in it, one in the which ensures the mirror will circle from the shoebox
center and one 5cm be at a 45 degree angle so it
so the eyepiece can fit in
from the edge. can reflect properly
the hole
Construction
Step 4 Step 5 Done!!!
Make a stand for a Decorate! Make the
phone as shown showbox whatever you
below, where a phone may wish. I made it
can be held in place look like a house when
horizontally. it’s without the
eyepiece.
Evaluate
Design Sustainability
My device works for its intended audience, My device is environmentally friendly as it is
children. It makes children think about how made out of fully recycled materials, which
the original image would originally look like, can be found in many recycling bins.
which boosts their problem solving skills My toy can easily be taken apart and recycled,
and imagination. with the lenses and mirror being detachable.
I believe my toy is environmentally friendly, Many of the parts of my device can be
but I could work on using less glue as some replaced easily, with no need to replace the
of it dried too quickly and had to be whole device.
replaced. There will be no excess paper from the
I could have painted the eyepiece so the completed images, as it will be digital on a
device would be more visually appealing, phone that can be slid into the box. This also
increasing the chances of my product means no extra light is required, as the phone
selling. has its own light.
Evaluate
Sell
Benefits of this toy
The toy helps children develop memory and problem-solving skills
These skills are crucial in various aspects of life
Problem-solving skills are necessary for remembering deadlines and solving
world issues

Importance to society
The device contributes to the development of future leaders
Studies have shown that people with problem-solving skills are more likely
to succeed
Enhancing problem-solving skills

Fun games at an early age can help children develop a love for problem-solving
This early foundation sets them up for success. which is exactly what my device
does
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Indeed Editorial Team. (2023, May 25). Why is problem-solving important in the
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problem-solving-important-in-workplace

What are Problem Solving Skills. (2017, August 9). Youth Employment UK.
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