Blow Your Summer Away~

Having a hot summer?

No wind in your room?

No worries!

I have a tall fan just for you!

Well, summer in California is not hot as you might think as it is a dry area.

But, what I hate the most is the lack of airflow in my room. Even though I have a large window (My room can be seen from the photo) There is not still enough air coming in.

While it is indeed better if I just installed AC or a ceiling fan, as a student in California, we really know that is not possible cause of the school tuition.

While I was looking at fans at a nearby target, I can not seem to find a fan that is actually tall. The tall fan is important to me because I like to stand up and study (have a standing desk) so I can actually "feel" the air.

To handle this by myself, I decided to make a fan design so that way I might can at least "feel" like I have a fan spinning in my room.

While I thought it would be easy at first was really not.
I was only used to making things with 90-degree angles as I do not need round parts for my drones(I started using fusion for 3d printing so I can make parts for my drone).

So me being a college student with nothing better to do, I spent a day learning more about this from my friend Eric who studies Nuclear Engineering at UC Berkeley with me (I am in CS). He told me in his class, he had to use this a lot to design/render some of his works so he was used to the program more than me.

After buying him lunch, we worked on the model for about an hour. After I finished the wing, I asked him other questions like "How to make this longer" or "What do I do if I want to do XXX" and such.

Since I made the wing, I have to make the house for it or the cover. Otherwise, it would be really dangerous to make a fan that has no cover. The wings could just get loose and fly around in the room!

I guess this was the hardest part of everything because I had to

First, Make the bottom cover that is filled

Second, Divide the cover into smaller sections and

Third, Copy and paste that section 360 degrees around the fan

Fourth, Repeat that process for the upper part

This took the most time out of everything and I think my hands got palsy when I finished.

Well, the 4th step was to make the base so that the fan could actually stand up.

This part was rather just making cylinders so it was not hard at all. However, if I were to make this into a real-life working fan,I would have made the cylinder tube hollow so that way the wires can run through to power the fan.

Ok, the fan is not a fan if the fan on the fan does not fan around (Sorry if this was a bad joke).

Even though this is just a 3d model, I wanted to make the wings in the fans spin around as they would have in real life. So I divided the fan into two different main bodies (1 being just the wings and the other being the rest), from there I was able to make the wings move around and spin in a circle!

As you can see from the back, there is a direction vector that directs the way the wings should move.

While the fan finished as just a model, I plan to make this thing into a real working tool. This is because I got a chance to use the 3d printers at the school lab.

I will obviously need to fix way much more things but I am still proud of the fan I made.

I plan to improve on this and hopefully, before the hot summer pass, I have a nice airflow in my room.

Thank you for reading!