8P10 3D print

Using tinker-cad, I created a 3D print design because I wanted this to be one of my last projects and I wanted to have a little fun with making my own design with scribble. Why I created such a unique little hand written logo is because I have a collection of the brands stuff at my house, and I have a ton of projects that are done with the name in them such as the laser cutter, X-carve machine, and the 3D printer once again. I've wanted to create a hand written or drawling with the 3D printer for quite some time, and now I can finally do it for my last project.

During this process, I learned that when you've done a project or a project similar to the project you're doing right now, it becomes very easy and you also get the hang of things and it gets fun. I also learned that remember how to start up the 3D printing machine is very hard and it requires some assistance if you forgot how it starts up/runs. Another thing I learned is that bigger 3D designs take a lot of more time to print, and more unique designs take longer time to run the machine and produce on the machine, so it's helpful to keep your project small but not too small.

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've been doing stuff similar to 3D printing. I use websites like tinker-cad and others like easel to design a project and send it to the teacher for them to get it ready for the machine to create. I used my knowledge from those different but similar projects to create a quick easy fun 3D print that took me 3 days.

A challenge I overcame on this project was trying to get nice scribble letters without making it look like a bad design. I really struggled on trying to get a somewhat perfect design for my 3D print but I kept messing up and it took a couple of try's to get the hand of it. I was able to overcome it by keeping a steadier hand and practicing more with the scribble text option in tinker cad. Another challenge I faced was quite easy to overcome but it still was a challenge at first and that was trying to figure out how to start the machine up and get it processing after I put the SD card for the printer to read my design, but I asked for some help and I got it working in no time.

Given a chance to do this again, I would change the font size for the letters below the logo. The reason why I would change it is because the film that the 3D printer uses to fill in empty vulnerable spaces on the design was stuck on the text because of how small it was. I got most of the film off from the smaller text but it was a lot of effort and there's still more film on it, so I would definitely not do such a small font next time for projects. I would also change the thickness of the bottom piece that holds everything together because it's too small and it is really bend-able and I'm afraid it'll break in the near future.