Product Design2026-10-15
The Indexer Pen: Rethinking How We Use a Pen
A wearable miniature pen designed to integrate with the index finger. From sketches and CAD to FDM prototyping, testing and the challenges of manufacturing a new product.
NOTEBOOK / 001
THE
ENGINEERING
NOTEBOOK
A working record of things we design, build, investigate, break and learn.
BY BALORA DESIGN GROUP
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DESIGN PROCESS
0101 / DEFINE
0202 / SKETCH
0303 / MODEL
0404 / SIMULATE
0505 / PROTOTYPE
0606 / ITERATE
THE ARCHIVE
A YEAR OF MAKING
Projects, experiments and strange engineering problems accumulated along the way.
FROM THE WORKSHOP
NOT EVERYTHING
STARTS AS A PROJECT.
WHY MECHANISM
DESIGN STARTS
WITH GEOMETRY
Thoughts on mechanism architecture, movement, constraints and designing motion before designing parts.
EXPLAINING THE DESIGN
WHEN AN
ENGINEERING IDEA
DOESN'T WORK
Failed concepts are part of the engineering record.
CONTINUE
THE NOTEBOOK
IS NEVER FINISHED.
The next idea is usually sitting somewhere between a sketch, a constraint and a badly behaved prototype.