Music Box Toy Project

Music Box Toy Project

Description

This toy is a music box with Harry Potter based theme. The hand crank music box plays the iconic Harry Potter song. The device hides in the wooden box engraved with Deathly Hallows and the Potter glasses. The acrylic top is engraved with Harry Potter theme backgrounds. Little figures of Ron, Harry and Hermione hold hands together in front of the castle and misty mountains. 3D printed nimbus sits in front of a little house. Keys hang on the top as if they are flying.

The device is assembled such that no sharp edges are exposed and kids would not be in danger. Kids may take the acrylic top off to take close look at the house, keys and nimbus. The toy does not contain harmful color spray or odor, so it is safe for the kids.

Designing/Assembling of Parts

We first designed the surrounding box in Solidworks.  In order to make assembling it easier, we utilized intertwining slots for each edge on the faces of the box.  After realizing that we had bought a Harry Potter themed music box, we decided to keep going in the “Wizarding World” direction and began to engrave the outside faces of our box with Harry Potter themed items.  We also laser cut some old fashioned keys and 3D printed a Nimbus 2000 broomstick on the Stratasys in order to further realize our recreation of one of the scenes from the end of the first book. Since the laser cut pieces themselves were slightly lackluster in terms of color, we then decided to spray paint the broomstick and keys to give them some more visual appeal.