Hobby Buddy is a gauntlet designed to assist you in a range of different creative activities. With the modular magnetic design and biomimicry to create these tools to assist, you can customize your Hobby Buddy to any specific hobbies or activities. There are many species on our planet to use as precedents to augment the human body. From porcupines to octopi, Hobby Buddy is attempting to mimic those design mother nature created.

Thesis

Form

Function

Modularity

Ease of Use

It also couldn't prioritize only aesthetics and make sure it docent just fall apart on your arm.

The design had to look appealing and not like a jumble of plastic and magnets.

Every module had to be designed to have the same connection method to the shell.

Possibly the most important objective was to make sure it would be worth while, or it would be dead in the water.

Ergonomics

The final would have to be comfortable on your arm so it wouldn't just turn into a paperweight.

Precedents

Pip Boy

Mini Painter arm thing



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Sketches/Cooking

RENDERS

• Open Source
• Skeleton Is Light
• Modular
• Simplistic
• Good Looking

• Latch isn't very effective
• Modules Are heavy
• Is light On Biomimicry

Pros

Cons

Modules

Goals/Next Steps

• Make more modules
• Redesign arm mount with biomimicry
• Improve weight of modules
• Improve comfort
• Make modules easier to remove