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Day 1: I am creating a design that will be able to hold a plant so I don't need to purchase a flower pot at the store.
Day 2: As you can see I merged the objects together to make sure they print successfully.
Day 3: As you can see I merged a text box to my flower pot design that will make the 3D print unique and not bland. The text says "flower" in Japanese.
Day 4: I had to upscale my 3D print after seeing classmates who didn't print their object in the right dimensions, so it turned out wrong.
Day 5 new modification:
Day 5: I had to fix my 3D design so I added a rectangle near the text so that they would be attached rather than not attached.
Day 5: The 3D printer printing my design
Day 6: As you can see my 3D print is finished and its looking just as I pictured it to be.
25 Things I Could Print Using The 3D Printer.
Piggy Bank
Back Horn Speaker
Ambra Vase
Battleships Game
Fridge Bottle Rack
Tealight Holder
Sanding Holder
Phone Holder
Among Us Characters
Desk Drawer
LED Lamp
Combination Locks
Camera Lens Caps
Anti-Gravity Plant Holder
Cable Organizer
Bottle Opener And Cap Gun
Refrigerator Storage
Air Raid Siren Hand Cranked
Smart Wallet
Pen And Pencil Holder
Measuring Cube
Tooth Paste Squeezer
Card Deck Shuffler
Self-Watering Plant
Bag Clip With Screw Cap
Planning Questions
5. Are you working by yourself or in a team? By myself because I simply just work better with computers by myself.
6. What materials will you need for your project? For obvious reasons a computer, 3D printer, and research for my project too.
7. What is your plan to create in this project? My plan is to create a flowerpot that has a unique design that will catch the eye of visitors in my house, and my plan is to also avoid buying a flowerpot from the store and instead make one of my own.
8. What unique qualities will your project have? A completely unique design that will catch the eye of visitors, and a cool little text in Japanese that says "flower" much different from a regular store flowerpot.
Design Thinking:
Design thinking is the ability to be able to spot a problem and come up with a wide range of possibilities to solve that problem. Even the University Of Harvard uses design thinking as a new way to approach problems, and they've been successful in using it. Harvard believes that design thinking should be human-centered meaning that we should use it in our lives and teach design thinking more often because the world is changing at a pace where we need to find solutions to problems more than ever and it's becoming more and more important.
What Class Standards Did I Use When Working On This Project?
For my project I was a Knowledge Constructor because I was constantly finding myself using resources of mine and using my background knowledge to solve problems that I encountered when working on my project. An example of when I was a Knowledge Constructor was when I first used tinker-cad. Although I've never been on tinker-cad before and I didn't know what to do I still used some of my background knowledge from when I messed with a 3D print design before at my friends house and I used that knowledge to not only help me solve problems but to help me work through tinker-cad a bit. Another standard that I was when working on this project was a Innovative Designer because I was using other technologies such as Google and YouTube to help me solve problems with my design and questions I had about using tinker-cad.
What Is My Project?
My project is a 3D print design of a unique flowerpot that will someday hold a flower or plant of some sort so I don't have to go out and spend money on some basic bland flowerpot for a plant. My creation consists of view shapes and objects from twinkecad.com, and those shapes are a paraboloid which is much like a cylinder, but instead, its got a curve on the top of the object near the face of it. The second shape on the 3D print is a diamond which is at the base of the flowerpot to create more of a wacky design so it can stand out from the other flowerpot designs out there. The diamond is stretched out to the point where it's even on all sides of the flowerpot, and it's actually merged in with my flowerpot meaning it's basically mostly inside of the whole object. Now lastly, the final object that's in my design is a text that is in Japanese that means "flower," and I added to create a more appealing design to the eye.
What I've learned from creating this project is that 3D Printing takes time and thought, and it's not something you can pick up fairly easy because it's something I even was unfamiliar with, but that was ok because I slowly started to get the hang of things. I learned many things like size does matter when printing 3D designs, so do the dimensions of your object. I learned that if you need help it's ok to go around and ask fellow students or my teacher Mr. Renner.
A huge challenge I faced when creating this project was my lack of paying attention to small key instructions from my teacher. I slowly realized that everything Mr. Renner said was important and I took that into consideration and I started to understand what to do. Another challenge I faced was how to work my way around the site "Twinker-Cad" and it was confusing and I kept finding myself googling "how-to" in my search bar.
Something I would do differently in this project was create something more unique that can serve a purpose every day rather than having a flower pot. Don't get me wrong though, flowerpots are very useful and we need them for gardening and plants or flowers, so I didn't entirely create something non-unique. I just didn't create something I could physically use every day with my hands or something, so that's what I would do differently.
Sentence Starters.
Using the 3D printer, I created a miniature flower pot because I needed a place holder for my flower.
During this process, I learned that using websites like tinker-cad is very hard and it was smart to google how-to's.
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 knowledge constructor because I was constantly using my resources for my project, and I was using partly background knowledge of mine to help my project.
A challenge I overcame on this project was trying to figure out dimensions to be able to print. I was able to do it by measuring very carefully and googling questions of mine.
Given a chance to do this again, I would change the dimensions of the print. The reason why I would change it is that it didn't turn out as well as I hoped but that is ok.
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 biological and scientific modeling because they print medical prosthetics and stuff that helps doctors understand the body more.
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