Week 1 Journal

Ideation

Tell us about your assignment's idea for this week. Why do you care about this idea? What inspired you?

Title of Media

The assignment was to upload models for 3D PRINTER and laser cutting machine to figure out how to interact with them.

Tool Chain

Which software/machines/materials did you use in the assignment? Why?

For 3D printing

I used Ultimaker Cura

with the 3d printer Prusa i3 mk3

The material is PLA

For Lazer cutting

I used laser works

The material is plywood (3mm)

Prusa i3 mk3

Design/Preparation Process

For 3D printing

I chose thor's hummer model from Thingiverse and i prepared the model for printing on Ultimaker Cura and I saved the file as G code to be ready to be printed.

i used scaling in cura to adjust the size of the hummer

i checked the support and made it for only the parts that touch the plade also added adhesion

i made the infill 20% and the profiles 0.2

For Lazer cutting

I chose a knife design from 3axis and prepared it on lazerworks i programmed the colors to give the machine the order to cut or scan

also I merged an old design of mine with fab lap logo

I programmed the red for engraving and the balck for cutting

Development/Implementation Process

Explain the development/implementation process of your assignment. How did you use the machine/tool to manufacture or implement the design of your assignment?

For 3D printing

I entered the SD card into the printer and I adjusted its setting to start printing

the model took about 75 minutes to be printed

VID20210715144701.mp4

For laser cutting

I uploaded the file to a software called laser cad to prepare the designs for cutting and program the colors to cut or engrave or speed cut

VID20210805182246.mp4

Community of Learning

Did you ask for feedback? What are the ideas that others have contributed or suggested? What was someone else’s idea that you built upon? How did you help your peers? How did your peers help you?

After I finished the models I showed them to the instructors and they helped me

like when there was an order I needed to program a color in lazerworks and my instructor helped me to program it , also they helped me on how to use the printer

Also my team when we were sharing our models we were negotiating to help each other

Overcoming Challenges

When you got stuck, what/who did you turn to? At what point did you have to pause to research or learn more before moving on? What are some mistakes, pitfalls, or challenges that others can avoid if they were doing this assignment?

I turned to the instructor to help me when i faced problem during printing

when the printing process started the adhesion didn't go well so the instructor told me to restart the process again

so I must focus very well at the beginning of the printing process because any mistake can ruin the whole model

Final Project

How can you use the skills and knowledge that you've acquired this week in your final project?

learning how to use 3D printer or lazer cutting machine is the very important for the final project that the will build its shape it can't be a physical project without them

so they are the tools that will bring the design to the real world

WOW!

What is the coolest thing that you've learned this week? What is something that you will never forget from this week?

3D printing is the coolest thing I have learned this week cause I wanted to learn how to print my models and i was fascinated

about a model being built layer by layer in front of my eyes

Weekly Digest

Tell us about any other cool things that you've made this week: in the Hands-on activity, tutorial examples, exercises, or any other cool mini-project that you tried out aside from the assignment.

I tried to give the mode some charm so i colored it with silver doko pen and coverd the hand with old leather

I colored it with marker and doko pens

Assignment Design Files

THOR HAMMER .gcode

THOR HAMMER .stl

FAB LAB LOGO .rld

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