Conclusion
In my project I decided to make a box for the Nintendo DS Lite, and I am reasonably pleased with the outcome. Unfortunaltey, the project brief was to make a container that was not a box. so my project did not fit the brief, it was a box, but it is interesting, it has a flip up lid and a draw. My box certainly works, the DS fits well inside the box, and the games go neatly into the draw, it can hold around 20 games, which is very good. The one problem is that the DS compartment is not padded, so if the box was being shaken about, it could scratch. I was planning on putting padding in, but when i tried it all fell apart, as I tried to wrap fabric around foam, it probably woul have been easier to just line the compartment with felt, or another soft material. although my box looks quite stylish, and i am fairly happy with the paint finish, as it is not easy to get a good finish on MDF. It is very plain, just white, all the way round. I was planning on having the DS logo (two squares on top of each other) and I had almost finished them, and it had taken me quite a long time, just as i was getting the glue ready to stick it to the box, I lost it. as this was in the final lesson there was not time to make another, but to resolve this problem I really should have made the same logo but out of sticky vinyl. Besides these promblems though, I do think I managed my time fairly well, although I should have found something to do whilst paint was drying, sometimes i didn't do anything, which wasted time. And no, my container does not fit the brief, but it does look good, and i honestly think that people would buy it, as it is a useful place to store your DS and games at home when it is not in use. I did learn lots of new technuques in this project though, I learnt about the rounter machine, applying hinges, MDF paints, the strucure of MDF (not to screw vertically into it, as MDF is like a deck of cards, it will split. I had to overcome this problem by drilling a hole, filling it with glue, and then pushing the screws in like that), and lots of other little things. so all in all, not bad.
