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3D Printed Tool

FINAL PROJECT!

Making a tool is never an easy thought. An useful item that makes your life better in some way, What could do that. Well at first me and Micheal thought a little pen Ferris Wheel would be the object of dreams, but we needed to simplify. And simplify we did. We thought of an object that only preschoolers could dream of, really, We thought of a pen dispenser, If I could find my original horrid sketch ups, you would see the idea evolve into what it is now, but you can't and I am sorry, With thoughts bouncing around like a sea sick Elvis Presley, the ideas for materials came up pretty fast, Threaded rod, some bolts and an ABS pipe. After measuring a pencil, and me throwing the designs into Rhino. It took it's first stage!

Cutting the abs pipe to the length of a pencil was no issue at all. The adding of 0.02 inches of room was also a very helpful aspect when it came to the 3D models.

OK, but there were a lot of failed attempts, I actually designed my own bearing type lid after the first didn't work, not bragging but it did only take me half an hour to think it up. I am totally bragging, but it was on Sunday at 1130 at night, and it is was due next day. That was just perfect problem solving. due to time restraints

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After a complete weekend of non stop work, I am in fact including Friday. I finished with a working product, here is a look at the guts.                                                

                                   

After the pencil dispensor was completed it just needed to be polished by cutting the end of threaded rod off.

Here are some Gifs of Brian working the pencil dispenser.

Can I say more than what a completely successful end, to a very successful class.
Thank you Bryan for the best class I have ever taken.

3D Printed Object: Hollowform

Aaron and Micheal's Hollow form adventure!

So my hollow form object took a turn as soon as I heard about the pipeline feature. 

Yeah it got pretty wacky, but this was just what I needed to make our project a little more interesting.

Micheal went with a very plain, but interesting design.

It needed to be spiced up a bit.

That's why I designed this!

So we started printing, well actually this is where Micheal took over. But let me show you what we got.

Pictures also courtesy of Micheal

It turned out really small and didn't finish, Still really interesting to the point people would fiddle and play with it even. I am keeping this in mind for future projects.

Our instructor, Brian, Mentioned to try again. Well Brian this is what we get for listening.(haha kidding not really upset it was still a learning experience).

Building the Base for the bigger model!

Oh man it is going to do it!

ANDDD... The pipes failed!

I tried to make several more solid attempts.
It just was not happening without making the object fully closed, Honestly the first attempt was repaired, and my lone attempts were't. Goes to show you what I learned. I will definitely try again someday soon.

Hollow Form Objects

Vase 1



Vase 2



Vase 3



Vase 4



Vase 5



Vase 6



Vase 7

 

Vase 8



Vase 9



Vase 10

Final Papercraft

Here I come...

Ok so this productive evening with the students, I learned how to progress my project further than before. We decided to make it fold-able to be put into a little paper condom package.. Here are some examples of how I might do that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUyTAgTHmwE]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2yPeqAjahg

So now that I have an idea on how to do that. Let's start prototyping!

My first step was to start measuring. This was the fun part.


Here are a bunch of pics of the work I had to put in to this prototype. A lot too much to actually recall, what they were for.

Damn none of these worked, but thanks to the laser cutter we got through that pretty quick.

So I came up with a way of building it in a folded state. At this point I thought I was way over my head. Guess what design worked best for the folded state.


Shape 1

Shape 2

Shape 3

Shape 4

That is right absolutely correct!  None of them :I

So I had to restart the design completely, one that would work in levels instead of curves.

This is how I used a paper clip to glue the tabs.

This was the top pouch, I believe it took over an hour to make

I found this terribly difficult.

I really screw'd up here when I glued the previous pictures cut upside down, I had to cut the ends off and use the spare.

Complete! Sadly I did not have time to finish the package. But I think it communicates condom, and fulfills it's purpose.

First Phase Prototype

Guess what...

I went with the...

CONDOM :D

Now it is time to see if the effort can be put into making this an effective item,

The design was not only intricate in some aspects, but very much easy to work with in terms of tabbing and gluing. Well anyway it seemed to be in Rhino. It wasn't too bad until I started working on the base elastic thingy. This Jimmy hat gave me some bad lip, if you know what I'm saying.

And then this silo looking architecture ended up being the result. I was not too happy. A great start to the condom project though. 

Papercraft Objects

Papercraft Objects

Otherwise known as...

My nightmare!

1) Screw Driver

Many aspects of the screwdriver would be useless as a paper object, no? Well guess what maybe I can prove you wrong with new never thought of ideas.

2) Birdhouse

This is a big ol' treat as I have a pet bird at home and she would love this. I just don't see the potential other than it can be destroyed by her.

3) Pylon

Now a very interesting object used as a guiding marker. Made out of paper this certainly does have potential.

4) A hat how cute.

You can wear away the troubles with this little beast, just not during a rainstorm, it is paper after all. That is more trouble than it is worth.

5) The CONDOM

My favorite object as this was written by me from the future. This is most likely the object I will go with. It is funny and has tons of potential,

6) The ol' stap a rocket.

That's RIGHT!!! get yourself a thin strip of ribbon and get ready to be a kid again with strap a rocket. Tie this paper object to your greasy boot and blast off with your friends to imagination land. Warning will crumple under light pressure.

7) Chair

It's a fuckin chair.

8) Jack in the box without the jack!

This has a lot of potential as a finished paper object, If we were to put a Jack in there, what kind of Jack would suit it. Who knows? ( A springy condom maybe*cough* *cough*)

9) Pyramid

If you thought the box was amazing check this bad boy out. Like the pyramids a lot of time and effort was put into the design, and can stand the tests of mother nature herself.. I am just not sure how to make it either interactive or move. 

10) Wall

I will put billions of dollars into this and build it between the border of Mexico and the United States. It will be made out of paper, because that is my idea and it is a good idea.