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For the final project, I decided to create a "kitchen garden". It is consisted of three parts: The upper part is a cutlery container with lines of holes at the bottom. The lower part is a plant pot holding tiny plants. The function of this structure is that the water from the washed spoon and chopsticks would leak through the holes and water the plant at the bottom. The backboard connects two separated front parts. My original idea of the connection is using nails but I then changed to using magnets because magnet connection allows me to easily take the front parts down,to clean them or to change them. I also made the appearance of "kitchen garden" look like pusheen because I like pusheen.
For the 3D modeling process, I used a lot of split body function to create the rounded shape of the ear. I used the loft function to create the inside volume of the upper part so that it fits the outer shape of the pusheen head. I also added a hanger structure on the backboard so the whole thing can be hanged on the wall.
I bought a box of 3.96cm * 3 mm round shape magnets. So I drill twelve 40mm* 3.5mm corresponding holes on the front and back parts(6 for the upper, 6 for the bottom).
The actual printing process was much longer and difficult than I expected.First I had to downscale it to 75% of original size to fit into the ultra maker. What I didn't realized at that time is that when I downscale it, the hole I designed for the magnets I bought also downscaled and now they didn't fit into the shape of my magnets anymore. So I bought a set of much smaller magnets and glue them to the hole with superglue. I also found out If I put all 6 sets of magnets on, it became extremely difficult to pull two parts away from each other because the magnet was too strong. So I only put on 4 magnets on two sides.
The second design fault I found actually came from the printer's failure to print out the full front part. For some unknown reasons, the printer only printed out 2/3 of the upper and lower parts( I printed them together)Then when I was cleaning the support material of the upper part, I found out that if the printer printed out the whole upper part, it would be extremely difficult for me to clean the support materials the interior because the only way to the interior is the shallow circular entrance on the top. It would be a better design if the upper part can be opened into two. So I retained the failed part and printed a "cup". After cleaning the support materials, I used super glue to attach them.
I then attached the magnet to the bottom of the upper and the bottom parts, also attaching only two sets of magnets each.
The final product looks pretty well. The red cup and black bodies actually look good. The only thing I don't really like is that I downscale the whole structure to 75% so that I couldn't put many things inside.
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