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Description: Design and create a pair of animal figurines utilizing recycled bottle corks. Students design on TinkerCAD and prototype using the 3D printers. The design process consists of brainstorming, researching, CADding, 3D printing, and repeating until students are happy with their final products.
Brainstorm: I gained inspiration from the previous quirks and also from Joyce. The first thing that I had to do was make a fitting ring. Sadly, I had two total failures, but in the end, I found a ring that could fit on both of my corks. I got the idea of doing a pig and a dog since I think both of these animals are interesting.
I got the idea for the first one because I saw all the examples from the previous years and took a bit from each. I took the legs from a pig design, and I took the glasses from a dog design. I also didn't want to actually make eyes. To wrap it up, I wanted to make a design that is very simple and easy to build.
Procedure:
The first thing that we had to do was to pick out two corks that we would use for the animals.
Then we measured the corks to figure out how big we had to make the rings.
Step 3: This is the test ring in TinkerCad.
Step 3 final product: This is the ring that I printed that fit both of my corks.
3. Then we made some test rings to make sure what size.
4. Then we started to build our animals inside Tinkercad.
5. If we were okay with our animals we would use the 3d printer and print it.
Step 4: This was my final product in TinkerCad.
Step 4: Final Product
Step 4: This was my second animal built in TinkerCad.
Step 4: Final product.
Soul Reflections:
S: After I made a ring that fit my cork, everything were able to fit.
O: I had to make my ring a total of three times because the size wasn't right. The tail for the first animals also came off because it was too weak.
U: I learned that supports can sometimes make you rip off part of your own design because it is hard to remove and can be too close to your model then expected.
L: The biggest problem that I had was making the diameters of the ring and making my animals. The main thing is that I got my ring size wrong 2 times so that was a obstacle to pass. Another problem was that I had a tough time figuring out my brain map, because I kept going back and forth so that took a lot of time.
WISCR: For this project I think that I was the S and I in WISCR. I was self-motivated because if I didn't push myself to finish this project I wouldn't have completed it. I was also a insightful-critical-thinker because I had to overcome obstacles and make decisions that could lead to the finish line.
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