8P1 3D- printing

The Steps

Day One: I spent a lot of time thinking about what to make. I ended up choosing to make a fork so I started planning in Tinkercad.

Day Two: I started working on the fork in Tinkercad.

Day Three: I spent the whole day working on the fork in Tinkercad.

Day Four: I finished the fork in Tinkercad but I went back to adjust the size and finally printed the fork.

Day Five: The fork is finally all finished.

If I was going to make another fork I would change the handle and prongs to make them longer and more sturdy.

Planing Questions

• I will be working by myself.

• I will use Tinkercad and a 3d-printer to create my fork.

• My goal is to print a useable fork.

• My fork will look like a little pitchfork.

I created a usable fork with a 3d-printer. Instead of looking like a normal fork it is more of a mini pitchfork. During this process I learned that to make the fork more usable I should make the handle more sturdy as well as the prongs. The hardest park of making the fork was adding the points at the end of the prongs. I added five prongs instead of three because I wanted to make the fork more unique and differenty then a normal fork.

• Using tinkercad and a 3d-printer, I created a little fork because it was an idea that came into my head that I really liked. While looking for ideas on what to make for my project I kept coming across little spoons and knives that other people had made. I didn't see anyone making a fork so thats what I decided to do.

• During this process, I learned it takes a lot of moving things around and adjusting to get exactly how you want it. You have to see how things work and figure how you can make it better.

• 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 had to think and design a new kind of fork.

• A challenge I overcame on this project was pointy part at the end of each prong. I was able to make the points by rotating and moving things around to figure what worked best. I had to use different shapes and adjust it to see whichone worked the best fo my fork.

• Given a chance to do this again, I would change the fork to make the prongs and handle more sturdy. The reason why I would change it is because making it more sturdy would help the fork work a lot better.

• 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 Engineering Design because I made something new by solving a problem and being creative. My project more specifically connects to careers in prototype design because I made a new design of a fork using a 3d printer to see how it would work and how I could make it better.