Week 4

Design Plan:

The print ended up coming out really really good, the only thing is in the next print I want to print out the coat hanger out rather than in one big in piece making it many pieces and assembling it after it is all printed out, this could save hours on the print time and the quality could possibly get better.

My Plan:

For my print I am going to make it print a total of seven pieces rather than one. This would include: three hooks, two eyes, one nose, and one main body. I have to make holes in the main body so everything can fit in and stay in place properly. This is my new design:

Final Design:

For my first design, I put a raft down, a raft is a layer of plastic from the 3D printer. this layer provides a stable flat uniform base to start the printing from.

For my second design I chose to change the thickness of each layer from .2mm to .15mm. this will change two things, first it will make the print to have a lot more detail and the print will be higher quality, the second thing this will change is the print time, because each layer is now thinner it will take longer to print. 

For my last design I added supports, supports will support prints as they buildup. they are important for big prints but the only downside is that it adds time to the print time. Other than that it is a great thing to use while printing.

Week 3

TinkerCAD explorations:

The Cube is a half inch wide cube with a quarter inch diameter ball inside of the cube. the holes on each face of the cube have a quarter inch sized hole making the cube hallow. while in real life it is printed at double the size, the cube being a square inch and the sphere being half an inch. It was created by first making a half inch square, then you are going to make a quarter inch hole on all of the faces making the cube hallow. lastly you make a quarter inch sphere and put it inside the cube. 

The design I Found on tinkerCAD was another coat hanger. This design is a lot more simple than our design it is simply a basic coat hanger. it has a reticular prism with rounded edges. The hook its self is just a pole with half a sphere on top of the pole.

Gadget Design:

In the other groups designs all were advanced they all used a wide virility of tools used, most used holes and grouping to make parts that were not available. the headphone holder used grouping, while the toothbrush holder used both holes and grouping. The last was the case for an arduino board. this was the most advanced using many groups and holes.

Week 2

3D Prints

The little gear mechanism seems to function properly, however, I'm not sure what the purpose of the object is other than to just show off how a 3d printer can make functioning gears. Felix's whistle seems to be working well too, there is noise that comes out of it when used. Andrew's chair is missing two legs but it still looks like a nice little mini chair.

My print was a mountain climbers clip. The quality is fine besides the expected things that come with 3D printing. It operates well, it uses tension to keep the clip itself closed. it printed well and definitely does its intended job. it was a two part print and once assembled it took a little of handling to get it in the right spot but once it was in it didn't move     

So they go by simplicity, the original design has a more ascetic appeal because it looks like a little squid. The second one is a more simple than the squid, its just a coat hanger with a happy face on it. The third design is just a simple single hook for a college dorm or to hang up a towel/jacket. The design I am going to go with is the squid because it seems to have a lot more character than the other designs and it has three hooks so it can hang more coats.

I made 3 different variations of a coat hanger. the first one is a small basic one with two hooks, the second one resembles a squid with 3 tentacles that double as hooks. My last design is my best, it is a Squidward coat hanger. It resembles Squidward and also has 3 hooks. the design I will end up going with is the one that looks like Squidward because I believe it is my best design and it is most appealing to the eyes.

Dom's favorite design:

My favorite design is Andrew's because it is practical and innovative, it is a cigarette holder that is also an ashtray, I could use one of those.

Alex's favorite design:

My favorite design was the toothbrush holder. This is a practical design because it holds two toothbrushes as well as a tube of toothpaste. 

Alex's Tutorials:

1. In the first one, I learned how to drag objects over other objects.

2. In the second tutorial I learned how to rotate the camera and angle you can view your projects.

3. In this tutorial I learned how to put a hole in different objects. 

4. In the forth tutorial i learned how to copy and paste pieces as well as changing the size of objects.

5. I learned how to put letters on top of other parts, i also learned how to group pieces.

6. I learned how to adjust the work plane to help me manage the scale and size of numbers, as well as making sure they are in the right spot.

Dom's Tutorials
1. I was taught how to move objects from the object area into the shape area.

2. I was taugh how to rotate and use the camera.

3. I was taught how to use the hole tool by using objects to make holes in objects.

4.I was taught hwo to scale objects and how to copy and paste using ctrl c and v.

5. I was taught how to drag letters onto an object and then group those letters to make a name and to change its color. Also I reshaped the original object.

6. I used a workplane to adjust the size and scale of numbers that had to be put onto a cube.