GROUP 8
Reducing Grey waste water in the home
Clippy Tap
Project by:
Carmen Valera Castillo
Joseph Jones
Paul-Anael Pogu
Wern Shynn Soon
Our Mission
'Novel ways to reduce/repurpose grey waste water.'
Inefficient washing is the second greatest source of wastewater within the home. On average a person wastes 150L of water in the home every day in the UK. As water scarcity becomes a larger issue facing the world, it is important to come up with novel ways to reduce the amount of water consumption at both an industrial and consumer level.
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With this in mind, Clippy Tap was designed to optimize the water usage of all households. With its universal adaptor, the Clippy Tap can be installed onto any faucet with ease. It can easily adapt to the needs of any client with a versatile range of attachments.
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Clippy Tap, the future of taps.
Saving water, one drop at a time.
A Modular Approach
An extendable base
Helps to reach anywhere within the sink and provides a traditional flow without attachments.
The sponge attachment
It's hard to beat a trusty sponge when it comes to cleaning dishes, combines with the soap dispenser to save you time.
The brush attachment
Designed to clean tough stains. It can reach all the nooks and crannies that other tools just can't.
The pressure nozzle attachment
Perfect for softening up those grease stains that just wont budge.
The mist nozzle attachment
Ideal for washing your hands, and most types of foods, can reduce water consumption by up to 95%!
An array of specialized attachments designed to reduce your water consumption. All of which are dishwasher safe.
A Closer Look
Extendable pop tube
This flexible tubing allows for greater freedom of movement within the sink but also supports the weight of the clippy tap in its contracted position.
Outer shell
The two halves of the hard ABS shell provides structure and are widely recyclable.
Clip latches
The clip design is very simple, yet effective, the two halves of the outer shell keep the the clip in place while a spring at the top provides the force to lock the hook in place.
Attachment clip
The attachment clips are uniform to allow for ease of production, with only slight variation for the nozzle types to reduce bulk.
Clip groove
The groove helps to align the clip in the housing. Four equally spaced springs also help to give the clip a snappier feel when removing an attachment.
Soap dispenser
The button here can be pressed to compress the plunger at the base on the shells hollow. This hollow can be filled with liquid soap so when compressed the plunger forces some soap out through small holes in the base of the shell.
In Action
Comic
The following comic illustrates how to use the Clippy Tap in six easy steps
Our Journey
Initial Brief
We were set the task of making an object that would improve quality of life around the home or make a specific task easier.
Specifying a Problem
After consideration of numerous things around the home that could be improved in some way, we settled on the issue of water consumption.
Understanding the Problem
After an initial brainstorm of the problem we began to research into where water is wasted by conducting a survey and looking at online sources. We each produced an infographic on an aspect of this issue.
Ideation
Once we had a better understanding of the topic we began our brainstorming in earnest, coming up with a over 50 ideas, most of which were rejected for being unfeasible, not as useful as initially thought, or already existing. These are the top 3 ideas from this first round of brainstorming.
Final Selection
After receiving feedback on our ideas, a final round of brainstorming resulted in us settling on our current concept.
Market Research
Once we settled on a design we conducted research into similar products and found that none offered modular cleaning attachments so we decided to make this our focus. We also looked into the market that this product would enter, finding that heavy duty sponge and scouring products accounted for 30% of a 4.8bn USD American market in 2018.
Design Development
From this initial design we refined it through brainstorming and experimentation with.
Lo-Fi Prototyping
From this developed concept we began to prototype, first using cardboard to get a better idea of how it would look and feel in the hand
High Fidelity Prototyping
Using the Lo-Fi prototypes the design was further refined (the curved body was given a slight overhang to help with grip and the clip mechanism was fleshed out) before being modelled in the Solidworks CAD package. The plastic parts were then 3D printed (these would be injection molded in a production model) and assembled using hot/super glue. Premade parts such as the universal tap adapter and pop-tube were purchased online to save time
