Dual-P Homer

Dual-P Homer is an idea that came from observing my mother passed through the stress of grinding the ingredients her food ingredients on a stone. She also alternatively use a mortar to pound some that could not be controlled in the stone. There are also other types of vegetable blenders and vegetable grinding machine available in the market. Most of these are either manualy or electrically powered. This observation pushed me to buy her an electrically powered blender to ease the work for her. But because of the unsteady power supply in my country, the machine was not as helpful as I wanted. So, I came about the idea of Dual-P Homer which simply means dual powered (electrically and manually powered) blender.

Inspiration and Ideation

Some of my design ideas were drawn from the above machines. "All credit to the original owners of the images attached" Though there were lots of modifications made at every here and there in my design to ensure its ruggedity and durability.

3D Modeling

The planned prefered software to model this was SolidWorks (My Favorite Tool). But because as the time of this design, my SolidWorks was very unstable and it was an earlier lunch of Fusion 360. Hence, my choice of Fusion 360.

User Interface/Experience

Daul-P Homer was designed for easy assemblage and usage. Every of the acessories was designed to be easily fixed and replaced.
The well-labeled button control makes it easy for anyone to operation with less or no instructions.

Material Selection: Enclosure

Enclosure:

The materials used for the design of Daul-P Homer were carefully selected from the best of Food Contact Susbtance safe materials.
The enclosures where made out of the blend of Polyamide, Acrylonitrile Styrene and Polycarbonate.

Material Selection: Blades

Blades:

For durability and cutting precision, High Tempered Steel was selected for the design of the cutting blade. The blade exhibits similar characteristics like the traditional surgical blade. The blades are detachable and can be replaced if blunted out.

Material Selection: Bucket

Bucket:

The clear bucket was designed from a material choice of a highly treated and blended Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET)

Daul-P Homer with Complete Accessories

Close View of Gears and Blades

Considerations:
Prior to the commencement of this research, the following considerations were made:

Size of the device: We plan to moderate the size of the product to its smallest possible dimension so as not to take unecessay space in the kitchen. At the same time, We aimed to design it in a way that will but firm and maintain stability. The over-head motor was born out of the idea that the buckect can be moved to the dinning table to be used as a mug
Cost: Extra time was given to material selection to endure that the best choice of materials are made at the most minimal cost. The device was designed with rural dewller in mind. So, we try as much as we can to ensure that we make it the most affordable piece of kitchen gadget of its class.
User Friendliness: We will make Daul-P Homer super friendly by reducing the number of number components and also ensuring ease of assemblage.

Multiple Close Views of Gears

Featured Works

WHO AM I?

I am Uchechukwu Ajuonuma. You can call me Uche. Uche is a dynamic leader with vast experience in design thinking, product design/development, business development projects, critical thinking, sales and marketing initiatives that align with corporate and industrial capabilities, strategies and goals. Excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills and ability to empathize and mobilize different stakeholders around a common agenda. In all, Uche is a T-shaped personality, with a wide breadth of skills and a tall length of a skill in product design. Uche has solid command of AutoCAD, Fusion 360, SolidWorks, many other CADs, FEA, CAMs, and 3D printing. He designs all sorts of tools, machinery, products etc. He is result oriented, innovative, and a team leader. He reads, understands and interprets all sorts of blueprints. He is very tactical in the use of Human Centered Design (H.C.D) to provide solutions that fit customers' demand.

UCHE AJUONUMA.