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"YOU ARE A STAR"
Our first project where we make an Soap Mold to show appreciation.
Project Description: We are asked to choose one important person in our life to express love and appreciation by creating a beautiful and thoughtful design. It will be made into a small piece of soap using a silicone mold that I will learn how to create. We will make at least 2 pieces of soap using the reusable silicone mold. Along with your design, come up with a catchy tagline that goes with it.
Project Guidelines: For this project, we need to CAD a soap in either TinkerCAD Codeblocks or Fusion 360, I chose Fusion 360. The soap must be between 2 inches and 3 inches in diameter, and is between 1 and 1.5 inches in height. Models from online or TinkerCAD comunity library cannot be used, and we must keep this portfolio up to date during the entire project.
Day 1: Brainstorm
This is the brainstorm I did for the first day of the project. I plan on making my soap for my dad, who likes science, which is where I got inspiration for a galaxy design. I wasn't really sure what the tagline is going to be, so I plan on going back and figuring that out later. I want my soap to look very cool, so I put a black hole in the middle. I didn't do much research for my design and drew everything by hand.
Day 2: Prototype
This is the soap I made today, its not finished but I like how it looks so far. The requirements for the soap are 2-3 inches in diameter and 1-1.5 inches in height. My base soap's height is 1 inch and the designs are 0.05-0.125 in height. JW is my dad's initials. I made the black hole in the middle by importing an image and then tracing over it on the sketch feature, before extruding it. For the rest of the designs I did the same.
Day 3: Printing
Today I printed my prototype to see if it would print correctly and also to learn how the printing process works. To save time, I decreased the height of the soap so that it would print faster.
a picture of the 3D printer printing the prototype (right)
Day 4: Printing (2)
In preparation for the mold I extended out the bottom so that its the correct size. This final result is slightly different from the old one because I added smaller stars. I will 3D print this and later make a mold with it.
Day 5: Mold Making
Today we made the mold using the 3D printed soap I printed last class. The mold we used had two parts, which we kneaded together in a 1:1 ratio and put it on the mold. After pressing in the details and making sure that there were no holes, I pressed it flat on the table and waited for it to dry.
Day 6: Soap Making
Today the mold dried, so I carefully removed it from my 3d print. I was very worried the mold would tear while I was removing it, but thankfully, it didnt. It turned out looking very good.
I plan on using vanilla scent for my soap mold. I want it to be blue becuase that is my dad's favorite color. I added one drop of blue coloring and then mixed it, it turned out very good.
Day 7: Results
This is the final soap that I got. I used blue food coloring for my soap becuase its my dad's favorite oclor. I used lavender scent on it because it smells good. The soap ended up turning out very good.
Since I still had some time I made a second soap which I will get the next class.
Day 8: Gallery Walk
I made another soap because a bit of the top of the black hole didn't come out well in the first one. This was the soap I made last class and I took it out of the mould today. It looks much better on this one. This was the one I displayed on my gallery walk.
We packaged the soap in a pretty bag and will bring them home today. I really like this bag becuase it made the soap look professional.
Reflection-SOUL:
S-Strength of your work: I think my soap turned out very clean and finished in the end. I really like the design I made.
O-Opportunities to improve your project: I think that my project ended up looking a little plain because I just did my design on the circular soap instead of using other shapes that would look more interesting.
U-Understanding, what you learned during this project: I learned how to import photos into Fusion360 to trace, and also got better at creating detailed sketches and extruding in this project.
L-Limitations you encountered in this project: I felt like it was difficult to think of a catchphrase for this project, since I thought it would be a little cheesy and I just couldn't think of any good ones. Eventually I settled on "you are a star"
WISCR-which learning skills did you apply/practice in this project: I think that during this project I applied the I in WISCR, Insightful and Critical thinker, because I had to problem solve and brainstorm about what to make and how to make it. I also used the C in WISCR, Clear Communicators, because I followed the directions and often asked for help from Ms. Tran and my classmates when I am unsure what to do.
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