What’s a letter balance used for, and furthermore, what does one look like? Today fewer and fewer people would be able to tell you, which is why GrabCADr Dragan Beijan chose to create an old school letter balance for the “Build Models for Reuse with Good Design Intent” challenge, an entry which won him 1st place.
“I picked the design because today's young generation does not know that device, it can be seen only in museums. I wanted to bring something unique to the community,” says Dragan.
Dragan, who attended Technical Polytechnic in Zagreb, currently lives in Croatia near the Adriatic Sea. His passion is making ideas into reality, which naturally lead him to the engineering world, “From an early age I loved the tools, models, natural sciences, and that me directed towards becoming an engineer”.
Although he enjoys learning new skills from his freelance work and supporting the engineering community through GrabCAD tutorials, Dragan is searching for a permanent position as a traffic engineer. With over 3,300 downloads of his various creative CAD projects, inspiration which he says comes from browsing GrabCAD’s CAD library, Dragan’s engineering future is sure to be exciting to watch.
When asked about which 1st challenge prize he would select out of the three choices: Jawbone Jambox, Pebble Watch and Sphero, Dragan said he would get the Pebble Watch and “give it to a friend that uses a smart phone”.
So what is an old school letter balance? It doesn't balance letters as the name suggests, but was used to determine postage on mailed letters before the invention of electronic scales. You can check out Dragan's 1st place model (rendering below) here.
