Week 12-3D printing part 2

This week we had to print the object that we created in Tinkercad last week. Using the MakerBot software and the MakerBot Replicator+ we printed the items. After resizing my box a little to cut down the time the finished it was 2 3/4 in. tall and 3 1/8 in. wide. This is the printed result.

Week 11- 3D printing part one

For this week we had to build an object in Tinkercad that assembled. What I decided to create was a box. Since I didn't want it to be simple I made it a hexagon. Then I decided to recreate the solar system going around the box to add more design to it. I used various shape tools and the hole creater in Tinkercad to make it. This is what I came up with.

Week 10- Virtual Reality

For this week we had to work in the virtual reality space. Our assignment was to create a place within the city virtual reality space and add to the replica of our art building. For my addition to the city I was inspired by the legend of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. I created a gardenscape around a glowing pool of water with firefly like lights all around. For my addition to the art building I was inspired by the Mystery Machine and decided to replicate that in Virtual Reality. These are the final results.

Week 9- Hot sauce Package

 I decided to create a coffin shaped container for the hot sauce bottle as the final design. Using Illustrator, the laser cutter, and wood glue I crafted and assembled the box. I chose this design with the idea of creating vampire hot sauce. I ended up designing a latch to secure the the box closed. I ended up having to cut it 3 times before I got it to work. This was the end result.

Week 8- Hot Sauce package designs

    This week we were assigned to create sketches for 3 different packages for hot sauce. These sketches will be used to create the cut document to send to the laser cutter. To make my sketches I used graphing paper to help with making the sketches to scale. My 3 ideas are a coffin, a sleeve box, and a cylinder that can unroll with a circle that closes it. These are the final sketches for the ideas.

Week 7- Cylinder

        This week some of us were given the task of creating a 3 inch cylinder out of plywood using the laser cutter. To start with, we found the circumference of the smaller circle using C=πd. We used the result of this equation to determine the length of the kerf cutting we would uses to wrap around the circles to create a cylinder. After getting all off the measurements we used Illustrator to create the cutting document for the laser.  To create the kerf cutting, I used the shape builder tool to make a rectangle with the center cut out and a little extender piece. Then I copied and pasted that until it was around the length of the rectangle I had made that was the length of the circumference of the inner circles.After that I used the shape builder tool to make it all one shape. Then I used the shape builder tool again after putting the kerf cutting piece on top of the rectangle to cut it down to that exact length. This was the final result.

Week 6- Crayon Box part 4

 This week we had to turn in the final constructed boxes and their matching crayons. We had to use the digital paper cutter to cut out at least one part of the project so I used it to cut out one set of the crayon wrappers. So the tools that we used were the printer, Illustrator, glue sticks, scissors, glossy paper and plain paper to make and assemble the boxes. I also used my manual cricket cutter. These were the final results.