The name Creative Key is was devised because it was a key used for a creative purpose and could be a good brand name. The creative key is an object that look like a car or house key with the exception of the cut portion of the key. That portion of the key is made up of a shaft like a screwdriver.
A hexagonal shaped hole is sunk into the end of the screwdriver shaft portion of the key. This hole accepts the driver bits. The bits’ shaft portion is the same diameter as the keys’ shaft diameter. This allows for the creative key to be used in countersunk screw holes. The driver bits have a hexagonal shaped extrusion which allows it to be accepted into the creative keys’ hexagonal hole.
ITERATION 1
The first design iteration was using one key per screwdriver tip shape. The most commonly needed are Phillips and flathead.
It was wondered if multiple screwdriver tips could be combined into one key. The ends flip but the pivot portion makes that portion of the shaft very large which disallows the usage of this screwdriver in countersunk holes commonly used in electronics and other hardware products.
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ITERATION 3
This iteration looked at multi-tool screwdriver devices in general and upgraded it and merged it with the creative key design. Most multi-tool screwdrivers on the market will have tips that have hexagonal shanks that insert into a hexagonal expanded screwdriver shaft end. The expanded shank of the screwdriver disallows the usage of the screwdriver multi-tool from being able to be used in countersunk holes in electronics and other products.
The solution to this is to make a reduced size shank and keep the screwdriver multi-tool end the same diameter all the way down the shaft. Because there is a number of common types of tool tips and sizes needed, they can go into a plastic container or similar container that also goes on the keychain. That is what was done for the final design.
The final key design was pitched to Axxess Keys near the inception which was in October of 2006. The product was not accepted at the time. Since then many companies have released versions of the Phillips and flathead screwdriver key versions shown in iteration 1. You can buy some here.
This is some artwork I sketched up for promotional materials and for some general ideas on what it would look like when I modeled it in Wildfire 2.
This video shows how it would work. It was rendered with Wildfire 2.
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PROTO BUILD
Here is the prototype I had someone weld together. I used a dremel tool with a cutting head and safety glasses to cut the tool-tip down to the smaller hex size.