Corkpals

Description: Design and create a pair of animals figurines utilizing recycled bottle corks. I design on TinkerCAD and protoype using the 3D printers. The design process consists of brainstorming, researching, CADding, 3d printing, and repeat until I am happy with my final product.

Brainstorm: 

The story: Junga and Babaganouj

One day, Junga the deer was doing what she loved to do, freeze in the middle of a highway in front of a car at night. But something felt different this time, she looked through the windshield and there was a rabbit! Junga was shocked and quickly pulled out her phone to call the police, no rabbit should be driving a car! But then the rabbit got out of the car and said, "Pleased to meet you. I am Officer Babaganouj, and you are arrested for jaywalking." And so then Junga had to go to jail. It was a small sentence at first but then she killed a mouse in prison so she had to stay in jail for a life sentence. So then Junga lived a sad, miserable life while Officer Babaganouj enjoyed driving above the speed limit.

Procedure:

1) Pick out the corks and measure their diameter with a caliper

2) CAD the enclosed rings and test print them to see if the rings fit the corks

3) CAD the animal

4) Printing the animal

Final results:

I drew on the eyes and mouths to make them bolder.

Reflections:

S - My strength was remembering to add supports every time

O - To improve, I could've made my deer (Junga)'s legs level, it is managing to stand but could've been better

U - I learnt the best positions to put a model in to make time for printing less, I learnt how to measure a cork

L - The main limitation I encountered was not always having a printer available when I needed one

WISCR:

I did good on the I for Individual (or independent?) and R for respect. I worked on my own work well. I respected myself by not being too harsh on my work and respected others' space when they were working on their CorkPals.