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Post date: Jan 29, 2018 7:44:34 PM
My name is Jack O'Brien. I choose the letters because those are my initials. I have no idea why I did the designs inside the letters. I decided to make the letters connected because I thought it would look weird if they were not. The lines on some of the shapes are bolded because I wanted the shade effect that you can do when drawing. The hardest part of this project was definitely coming up with a design for inside the letters.
This is my design logo laser cut. I am really happy with the finished piece. The thing I would definitely change would be the holes in the letter P. The reason why I would change it because the middle piece of the P broke off so I had to tape the back edge of it to keep it in place. I would also change the outline. Other than those two changes I thought this went really well. I really liked learning about how to use the laser cutter during this process. The hardest part of this project was definitely learning that the lines I had in the letter P would break off.
This is the very first assignment that we did in Design class. It was trying to create a 2" by 2" box out of cardboard and cardstock. During this, it showed me that you really want precise measurements because one-off measurement can ruin your project. The worst part of this project for me was definitely the gluing because I felt like if I didn't take my time gluing on the sides of the box that the glue would make the box really messy on the outside. The cardstock was definitely the most challenging on to glue and know how much glue to use because too much glue could make the box really wet and be able to break. On one of the sides, I used too much glue and one of my sides in my box got to wet and the outside of the box was caved in so I had to cut that specific edge of the box. The cardboard box, gave me a difficult experience with the measuring because sometimes I thought I was at 2'' when I was either below that 2'' mark or higher than the 2'' mark.
This was the brainstorm piece Mr.D had us do in class to try and figure out a logo design. After drawing 12 thumbnail drawings we had to narrow the 12 thumbnail drawings done to 2. With the 2 drawings that we choose, we had to draw them larger than before but also explain in certain parts why we choose this as our logo option or why it was significant to us. After drawing the 2 logos we had to get constructive criticism from other people on how to change the drawing. After getting the criticism we had to choose which one we wanted to be our logo. Most of the criticism I got from people was that my lines were mostly all the same size so I decided to make some larger than the other or smaller. People also liked the idea of the shading in the background behind the JPO. One person told me that my letters looked boring and asked me to put a different design in each letter to make each one unique. I felt like getting criticism in this project was good because we have to know that later on in life that people are going to criticize you and you can either take it or not take it. The hardest part of this project was coming up with the thumbnail drawings.
These are the lessons that helped me use TikerCad and get to know the system and how it works. The help through these tutorials helped me create my 3D logo on this site. Some of the lessons were a bit challenging just trying to get the correct size and where to put it where it was supposed to go. There are many more tutorials that I need to explore the upcoming 3D projects like the glow circuits. The lessons taught me more about the site than if I tried to figure out how to use them. The only hard part of this part of the 3D project was figuring out how the site worked.
This assignment was making our previous logo on a sticker. The most challenging part of this assignment was the designs inside the letters and trying to get them out. You can see that my letter J is different with no design because when I went to take the pieces out that I wanted it stuck to the other parts and the whole thing came out. In order for me to do the assignment, I had to transfer my logo from Adobe Illustrator and paste it into Roland CutStudio. Erica Emig helped me with getting it to print out and telling me the dimensions I needed to have in order to print. The sticker printed in a short period of time but in order for me get rid of some of the green inside the letters I had to use tweezers. After thinking it looked fine I decided to put the sticker on the bottom of my computer. Trying to get the sticker to stick was the hardest because every time I would peel the sticky paper off the whole thing would be attached to it. This taught me how to use the vinyl cutter and the process of going about doing it. The hardest part of this project was definitely figuring out which parts of each letter I wanted to take out, to make it look like the design I drew.
This is the name stand I created for the name stand project. I used the Adobe Illustrator and the laser cutter to do this project. I choose the United States as the design because that is where but it is a difficult design to draw so I wanted to try it. The hardest part of this project was the tabs because some of the times they were too big or the holes in the bottom of the stand were not in the correct spot. This took two attempts to get it to match correctly. Next time I do this I will try to be more careful about making sure that they are the correct size because if I do that I will not be wasting a lot of wood.
I used TinkerCad to design my logo. The easiest part of this project was getting the letters on to the grid but the hardest part was trying to get the designs inside the letters. After failing about 10 times I finally went and asked Mr. D if I could just skip that part of my design. The nice thing when I printed it out was the that there were lines inside the letters. When creating the logo I went to the Basic Shapes tab and found the letters and changed the size and color of each letter. After getting all of my letters I grouped them together and started on the designs inside each letter. Doing this project in TinkerCad gave me a good understanding of how to use the website and lets me feel confident going into the next 3D design that we do. The hardest part of this project was definitely figuring out how to actually work the 3D printer.
This project showed me how to use the cardstock paper and how you should go about designing each of the 9 models. The most challenging one was the cone and trying to perfect another box. I was in a rush to finish this project so I decided to use tape for the box and cone even though we weren't supposed to. The other thing for the cone that I forgot to do is but flanges on it. The easiest design was the layers one because I was able to cut small squares of cardstock and put them on each other. I decided not to work with anybody because I wanted to see my ability in creating these things. Next time I will try to work with someone. Another hard thing was the slots because you had to get each one the correct size to make sure it matched up correctly.
In this project, I had to draw thumbnail sketches of what type of glasses I wanted to design. I really liked the glasses with the lines going through them but I didn't want them to look like them so I decided to but two of the letters of my name on each side to spell Jack. Many people said that I should also put something on the side of the glasses so I researched sayings to put o the sides and the front. The hardest part of the project was definitely trying to get the sides of the glasses to fit into the frame. In the fourth picture, you can see the cardstock prototype. I would definitely change a lot to them. I finally was able to put the sayings on the sides of the glasses and on the frame as well. I wish I did something else where the JA and CK are because it is pretty dull around there. I took two attempts to get the sides of the wooden glass correct because either the letters on the side were wrong or it didn't fit correctly. I feel like I could definitely come up with a better idea to design if we had to do this another time.
This is another Tinker Cad lesson I did. This was about the Glow Circuit Assembly. It was very difficult for me to understand some of the directions when going through the tutorial. This tutorial helped me create my polar bear and put a glowing LED in it as you can see below. I hope my design will light up after I print my design.
This is my glow circuit polar bear. This was a fun project to do because you had the choice of doing chess pieces or the glow circuit. I used TinkerCad to create this polar bear. The difficult part of this project was getting the face of the polar bear complete. It took me so many tries to complete this step in the creation process. The fun part of this project was actually creating the piece of ice that the polar bear is standing on. Waiting for the polar bear to 3D print was a long time. After it was finished printing I was able to take the stand that was holding the nose on with pliers. It was hard to find a LED that actually worked with a battery. When I had one LED in the polar bear it was not lighting up fully so I decided to try two LEDs and it worked. That is why there are a blue part and red part of the polar bear. This is one of my favorite projects that we have done this year.
These are my thumbnail sketches for my clock. It was difficult on how I wanted to design a clock. The sketches I did are really bad. The thing I liked was that Mr. D is challenging us to be creative with this project rather than being dull. It was difficult to choose what kind of clock I wanted to do at first, The first clock I tried to design was a cliff climbing clock but after several attempts trying to design it, I gave up and decided to do a normal clock but with a different design in each. You can see in the second picture that I didn't have a lot of numbers but I did write down what size I wanted each section to be. This is my cardboard cut out of the clock. I didn't glue down the numbers because I was running out of time. I didn't want to use a ton of cardboard for the cardboard prototype because Mr. D told the class that we were running low on the material so I just decided to save some cardboard for others. It was very difficult to come up with designs to put in each section. I really wanted to do acrylic for the sections 3, 6, 9, and 12 but I ended up not doing it. The worst section was the crayon section because it was very messy because the crayons kept melting when the hot glue was applied to it. I am happy with the result of the clock but also kinda bummed out that it won't work because of each size of the material inside the sections for each number. The best section was definitely the ones with the stones in it because that was very easy to glue down onto the wood. The ugliest section is either the finger paint section or the one with the leaves. The only thing that I disliked in this section was the hot gluing because when I got it on my hands it hurt really bad.
These are the questions we had to answer for the FAB Academy Assignment Mr. D gave us for a snow day. We had to find a project that stuck to our interest or that we found interesting and we had to answer questions on the project and on what we are interested in creating in the fabrication lab at school.
1. Identify a project from any of the FabAcademy links and summarize what the student has set out to accomplish. What did they eventually complete and were they close to their original idea? Looking through their documentation (website) what did they explain as the most challenging part of the project? Include a link to the project documentation page in your answer. Embed an image of the selected project within your blog post. Not as an attachment.
The challenging aspect of this project she said was the Illustrator file was quite complex when she tried to create this project so she switched to PartWorks to create it. From looking at her page I assume her goal was to make it a kids game that teaches them collaborative problem-solving. Another challenge I found in her project page was when she was using the table mill it was hard to set up the machine for the flip but with help from a person named Wendy, they were able to complete the flip. I think she was definitely close to what she wanted to achieve in her final project. http://fabacademy.org/archives/2015/as/students/aflalo.anna/Blocks/WEEKS/WEEK18.html
2. Why did you pick this project? What got your attention?
I choose this project because at first, I thought that it was a game because of seeing the marbles and LEDs being lit up in the table but soon I realized what it actually was for when I clicked on the page.
3. What are Fab Lab ideas rattling in your head about what you would like to make or explore?
The thing I would like to make and explore more is how to make a storage area where it locks, like a safe but you hit a number and it opens that storage case.
4. What are some of your interests that you would like to connect to projects in the Fab Lab? (i.e. environment, sustainability, fashion, fabrics, jeweler, robotics, programming, woodworking, furniture design, product design, engineering, CAD software, medicine, etc.)
I would like to make a desk with different storage areas in it, or a dinner/outdoor table with a cool design inside or on it, or a cool light that you could put in a dining room or above the kitchen that is made out of a many different kinds of wood but not having the lights be LEDs. For the environment, I have some ideas but don't if they would be able to be done in a fabrication lab.
These are my drawings of a cube, tape roll, cylinder, and the marker box. This was the very first thing we did our first design class. We had to do 4 different styles in our name and I choose the block, cursive, bubble, and connected styles to write my name in. I hope to find other different styles to write your name in over this course. The cube and cylinder had to be drawn from your memory and those were the easiest things to do. We had to look at the tape roll and marker box in order to draw them. All of the drawings were very easy to draw. The hardest part was definitely coming up with different styles to write your name in. This was definitely helpful because it got me back in the art mood because I took a semester off from art and it was good to get back to drawing things again.
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