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Description: I had to design and create two animal figurines using recycled bottle corks. I designed it on TinkerCAD and prototyped it using 3-D printers. The process consisted of brainstorming, researching, and designing the animals we had in mind.
Brainstorm: My animals are a chicken and a mouse. There's a Russian folk tale about these two animals, and I've heard it a lot when I was little. I decided to relive the story using TinkerCAD.
Procedure:
Pick out the corks and measure their diameter.
CAD two rings and print them out to make sure that those measurements fit the corks.
Use the measurements from the rings to create two unique animals.
CAD your final project.
Reflections
S - The strength in my project is that the chicken looks cute, and it fits pretty well. The mouse also looks great.
O - Something I could have done better was the measuring, first of all. The chicken's tail was a bit loose, and I had to reprint it. Also, I used the wrong kind of supports, and my friend barely got them off. For the mouse, its tail broke off, so I had to reprint that too.
U - During this project, I learned to pay attention to details a lot. In TinkerCAD, one mistake can spoil a whole project, so I had to focus on what I was doing.
L - One of the limitations was that the two ends of the cork didn't have equal measurements, so I couldn't just copy and paste two equal rings.
WISCR - In my project, I used the C and the I a lot. I had to communicate well with my teacher if I needed help, and I also needed to think creatively to complete my project.
The mistakes I made and reprinted:
The tail broke off of the mouse's second half.
The chicken's second half was too big.
I used the wrong supports for the chicken feet and they broke.Â
The results!
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