7P5 - 3D problem

Using tinkercad, I created a bowl for my cat Fitz because she eats canned cat food everyday and she always gets the food over the bowl. So I made a bowl for her with a lip around it so she doesn't spill meat bits onto the floor. I also made it customized to her so it would be special.

During this process, I learned that sometimes your first design isn't that good and that sometimes you just have to scrap it. The reason I scrapped my first design is because the fact that it was just too small and the lip wouldn't work. The lip was 2 inches wide when we could only have a 3 inch wide project so I had to find a way around that, thing is I didn't. So instead I started a brand new bowl and made it better by making the lip rounded and making it more stable by adding a support around it.

The 7 standards of the class are Empowered Learner, Digital Citizen, Knowledge Constructor, Innovative Designer, Computational Thinker, Creative Communicator, and Global Collaborator. My project ties to Computational Thinker because I am solving a specific problem with my model. The problem imp solving is the fact that my cat always gets the food outside of her bowl.

A challenge I overcame on this project was the modeling of my project. I was able to do it by looking at other students projects from the past. I looked at the 8th graders project and went through their daily log. I also looked up tutorials on YouTube to help with my modeling.

Given a chance to do this again, I would change the ears of my bowl. The reason why I would change it is because it prints with supports I would also change the fact that my first design was so small. And after printing it I realized that I should have printed it on its side. Because of the fact that I wasted a lot of filament because of the support beams the project needed.

Hastings High School Career and Technical Education Program offers Agriculture, Business Management, Computer Programming, Construction Trades, Culinary Arts, Digital Multimedia, Engineering Design, Finance, Insurance, Marketing. My project connects to the Engineering Design CTE program at Hastings High School. My project connects to careers in 3D printing software design. Prosthetic Creation, and Product Design.