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Ideation
Tell us about your assignment's idea for this week. Why do you care about this idea? What inspired you? (Please include images or links to sources of inspiration)
Tell us about your assignment's idea for this week. Why do you care about this idea? What inspired you? (Please include images or links to sources of inspiration)
Link: 🌐WhiteFury keychain
The idea for this week is to practice using the laser cutter and 3D Printer. It was very tough trying to choose from thousands of beautiful designs a single model to print and cut, specifically a simple model that met the criteria for the assignment.
for 3D, I chose a phone stand / Key-chain that looks like a little kitten, which I think is a smart design and very small form. it also is easy to print and doesn't need support. I choose it because it'll be nice to have a phone holder on me at all times.
For 2D model I chose another key-chain, this time it's of a dragon from the movie series "how to train your dragon", I plan on finishing it with colors once I cut it. I choose this model because my wife had a similar key-chain that broke recently. I thought this would be a nice little surprise :) .
Tool Chain
Tool Chain
Which software/machines/materials did you use in the assignment? Why?
Which software/machines/materials did you use in the assignment? Why?
Software:
Cura 3d.
Laser works.
Adobe illustrator (to fix a file).
Cloudconvert (to convert from .cdr to .dxf).
Machines:
Lase cutting machine.
Prusa Mk3 3D printer.
Materials :
esun PLA+ Filament.
3mm Plywood.
Laser cutting
Design/Preparation Process
Design/Preparation Process
Explain the design and/or preparation process of your assignment. How did you use the tool or software to design and/or prepare your assignment before fabrication/implementation?
Explain the design and/or preparation process of your assignment. How did you use the tool or software to design and/or prepare your assignment before fabrication/implementation?
Old Design - But after I rounded some corners.
Edited Design - attached Below.
It's a simple key chain, I edited the design to move the hole to a different location where it doesn't interfere with the design and hope it offers better rigidity .
I also used illustrator to round some sharp corners from the original design. I decided I want to keep the original tone of the wood, So I won't be using any Scan orders.
The dimensions are: 64*67 mm and it'll take less than a minute to cut.
The settings are:
Black: Cut - 300 mm/s - 50% Power.
Red: Cut - 15 mm/s - 70% Power.
3d kitten phone stand - attached below
since it's a small sized model I opted for higher quality print . at .1 mm profile resolution . the model is 30.8*46.1*26.3 mm which means at this resolution it'll still only use 5 gm of PLA+ Filament and it'll only take 1 hour and 4 minutes to print. which is well within the time margin .
I'm using 20% infill with triangular pattern.
I hope it goes smoothly isA.
Development/Implementation Process
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?
Explain the development/implementation process of your assignment. How did you use the machine/tool to manufacture or implement the design of your assignment?
Laser Cut Assignment:
Using the laser work software I sent the design to the cutter memory using the (download) command.
on the cutter I navigated to the file, used frame to make sure it'll fit on the wooden sheet nicely. and started the operation.
It took around a minute to finish the design.
Mobile Phone holder
Lasercut dragon keychain
3D Printing Assignment:
due to time constrain I had to change the resloution to .3 mm to get faster printing time . the print turned out great.
Used sd card reader to copy the .gcode file to the printer, selected it and gave the print order.
it took around 3 minutes to heat the bed and nozzle and the print went smooth from there on.
Community of Learning
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?
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?
T-rex model with the new support
Our first print of the T-rex failed halfway due to printer error. Omar the fablab specialist instructed us to change the support settings from (Everywhere) to (Touching Buildplate) which was very helpful and worked perfectly on the second try.
Overcoming Challenges
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?
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?
Laser-cutting challenges :
The power for the engrave was set a bit higher than it should be, which resulted in losing the fine and tiny details . I'd do it again with lower power settings than mentioned above.
Edge burn
Final Project
Final Project
How can you use the skills and knowledge that you've acquired this week in your final project?
How can you use the skills and knowledge that you've acquired this week in your final project?
Prusa 3D Printer
Getting familiar with the machines was very informative, since I'll be Fabricating my Final project using these machines.
It was fun getting to deal with the Prusa since I've only worked with Utimakers before. it's very easy to use :) .
WOW!
WOW!
What is the coolest thing that you've learned this week? What is something that you will never forget from this week?
What is the coolest thing that you've learned this week? What is something that you will never forget from this week?
The coolest thing I stumbled upon while tinkering with Cura software was Gyroid inFill . It looks so interesting, and I wish I can try it one day with some translucent filament . read more about it here.
Gyroid infill
Weekly Digest [OPTIONAL]
Weekly Digest [OPTIONAL]
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.
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.
Really enjoyed getting back to work with the laser cutting machine.
The task was simple and the result is nice.
IT’S-A ME, MARIO!
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