8P1 Marketing

Using Tinkercad, I created a water bottle because I thought 3D printing a water bottle to sell at Hastings High School would help student athletes in need of one. It would be a cool custom Hastings styled water bottle made by the students that would help athletes or just students in general that need to carry a water bottle around with them to occasionally drink some water, or have a refresher during sports.

During this process, I learned how to use Tinkercad, and how to create a 3D printable object. I also figured out that it was a lot harder than I expected, my project didn't turn out exactly as I wanted it to. As a first experience, I thought I did pretty well. I learned how to change the dimensions of objects and change settings to match my liking. Finally, I learned that not everything you create in Tinkercad will print as you want it to, and to get the best product is to have many trials.

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 Innovative Designer because I chose to use Tinkercad to create my own 3D printable model, and I had to reset my model many times to try and come to something I like. Even though I might not have reached my goal, or if my project wasn't successful in the end, I still created something that's somewhat appealing, and gives me a better idea of how to make something next time I plan to.

A challenge I overcame on this project was making the correct pattern for my bottle cap. I was able to make the bottle cap by adding a ring shaped object onto the main body of the water bottle, and add two thin halo or doughnut shaped ring on the outside of the cap to add a screw on pattern for the cap to go on. I then took the same pattern and added it to the inside of the cap itself. This was difficult, but luckily, I came up with my own bottle cap pattern that somewhat worked. These are some pictures I looked at that helped me come up with a bottle cap design pattern :