This is the rendered image of my chosen form. 

It was a little difficult for me to figure out how I would render it because all of the forms that my group created were really complex. However, with a little help, modifications and a whole lot of time, I  was finally able to figure it out. And I think it turned out pretty well!

This is the first printing of my form, it didn't turn out very well. There were parts that snapped and disconnected. And with some help from Samu, I noticed that some of the pillars and "straws" (or what's suppose to represent a straw) were very thin and prone to breaking. So using Gumball in Rhino, I made the "straws" a little thicker and did the whole process of exporting the file to Prusa, uploading it to the memory card, making edits to the form, etc. Hopefully this next print will be more successful!

This was my second attempt at printing my form. To try to counteract the results of the previous attempt, as I mentioned in my caption for "draft 1", with help, I thickened some of the structures that I noticed were having trouble printing. And although in this attempt, a lot of the pillars and "straws" were able to support themselves, most of them still had a hard time printing. It may be a little hard to tell from the photos, but I also noticed that the "rubber bands" were also a having a hard time printing. So my next course of action is going to be continuing to thicken the portions (in Rhino) of my structure.

These are the 5 different cylinders that the tutorial taught us to make. It was quite easy and to create this view I was able to use the bake command. 

A heads up, for most of these, I lost the grasshopper file and had to take a screenshot of the preview on rhino's home page. So that's why some of them don't have the screenshot of the work in grasshopper.

For me, this tutorial was generally easy. It was fun to make and I really liked it!

I liked making this one, once again, the tutorial was quite easy and I'm excited to use this in projects. However, I don't particularly understand what each command does because the tutorials don't really explain it. 

Sorry for the bad quality photo, not really sure why my camera wasn't able to capture a clear view of it. I wasn't really sure how I should have shown all of the different tutorials, so I just left them over lapping. The tutorial was pretty straight forward and I finished it quite fast.

There was a bit of confusion for me on this one. When I finished the tutorial the spiral didn't really look the way I wanted it to and I didn't really understand why. But with some help, I finally figured it out.

There was a little confusion surrounding the beginning of the tutorial about having to create the cylinder in rhino but other than that the tutorial was generally enjoyable.

I had a bit of trouble with this one. All of the wires were confusing to me because it was hard to see which ones connected to wear and when I got to the Weaverbird part, I was totally lost and had to get a lot of help. But I like how it turned out, especially because eI got to choose my own color for the final baked vision.

Note: I couldn't fit all of the grasshopper commands into 1 photo, so I did 2. the one on top is the beginning and the one on bottom is the end. 

I'm partnered with Eric and together we came up with the idea of building a roller coaster cart. It will be made of wood and metal and have designs that are 3D printed. We were thinking about rendering and printing a 3D map of somewhere to display on/in the cart. In addition, we used some of our budget and purchased a set of 4 wheels from Amazon to make the cart transportable! To the left, you can see an image of our design with the dimensions that we intend to use. 

The past few classes we've been working on our wood component/the body of the cart. We've mostly been creating the structure, so we've mainly been using the planer and table saw to make sure that all of the pieces are the same length, width and height.

I'm really excited for this project! I initially had one idea that I really wanted to do, but I soon realized that it would be extremely complicated and hard to construct. So I decided to go with a design of a mini clothing rack and hangers, with the intention of them being for my earrings! Here are some of my sketches and ideas of what to render.

The way that I'm going to be incorporating the grasshopper tutorials into my design is by using Voronoi. On the sides of the "earring rack," I created removable Voronoi sleeves (the pink parts). I definitely had a lot of trouble with the hanger, I still don't really like it, so I'm thinking about changing it. Nevertheless, I'm currently doing my first test print of the main rack without the Voronoi parts, so we'll see how that goes and tweek it accordingly. 

This is the prototype for my project, I'm going to be sending the voronoi component to Shapeways. I've attempted to create the hanger(s) for the earings, but my first print was much too thin - it broke and is very very delicate. I'm still in the process of trying to print it, I've tried to print it but it hasn't been print right.

I have sent my voronoi component to Shapeways and am printing it in Rhodium Plated Brass. The walls were a little thin, but it was an easy fix - shapways helped to automatically fix it. It was approved and I'm very excited to see how it turns out! (I forgot to take a photo of the file in shapways!)

For my rack, I'm going to be 3D - printing it here in white filament. I'm thinking about painting it, but I'm still in the process of figuring that out. In addition, I'm still having a lot of tourble getting the hanger(s) to sucessfully print, but I'm currently working with Samu to figure that out.