Month: September 2018

You will have 30 minutes for today’s exam.  Please ask if you need more time.

During the exam please follow these guidelines:
1. if you finish your exam before 30 minutes, work silently at your computer.  Stay in your seat.  You can work on completing CAD/CAM work or do other homework.
2. do not talk to anyone other than the teacher.
3. if you have questions about the exam please ask Mr. Milstead.  Do not ask your neighbor.
4. eyes on your own screen.
5. don’t leave any answers blank.
6. phones in the phone holder.

Click here for the exam.

 

CLICK HERE for the exam review sheet with answers.  This is to help you in preparing for Thursday’s exam.

Today:
1. first part of class – continue CAD/CAM work using video tutorials (see below).
2. second half of class – marble mazes, float boats
3. review sheet for Thursday’s quest on CAD/CAM and Woodworking skills

Thursday:
1. both sections – CAD/CAM and Woodworking exam.
2. when you finish your exam you will begin complete a series of workstations to build your knowledge on the concepts of circuit building, wiring and electricity.

Monday: one group will continue work with wiring concepts and soldering with Mr. Varvil while other group will join Mr. Milstead to learn basics of Arduino programming.

What will I grade?  Please submit one of each of the items below.  If you are unable to finish during class then please come to my tutorial in room 127.
Independent CAD/CAM work:
1. finish your boat and penny holder designs.  Click here for project details
2. after you have submitted your boat designs begin work on your 3d printed keychains.  Click here for details.
3. WOW you finished the keychain?  Ok, now move on to creating a laser cut bag tag.  
4. Laser Cut Puzzle – choose your images, design the puzzle, let the laser cutter do the work.

What will I grade?  Please submit one of each of the above.  If you are unable to finish during class then please come to my tutorial in room 127.

Reminders:
1. save often save often save often
2. make sure you save to your network drive
3. work until the bell – ask me if you are done

TODAY:

1. finish your boat and penny holder designs.  Click here for project details
2. after you have submitted your boat designs begin work on your 3d printed keychains.  Click here for details.
3. WOW you finished the keychain?  Ok, now move on to creating a laser cut bag tag.  
4. Laser Cut Puzzle – choose your images, design the puzzle, let the laser cutter do the work.

TOMORROW: 

We will have half of the class to finish designing boats and test printed boats.  Then we will begin our work with electricity, electronics and Arduino.

Reminders:
1. save often save often save often
2. make sure you save to your network drive
3. work until the bell – ask me if you are done

5th period –
1. finish your boat and penny holder designs.  Click here for project details
2. after you have submitted your boat designs begin work on your 3d printed keychains.  Click here for details.
3. WOW you finished the keychain?  Ok, now move on to creating a laser cut bag tag.  

 

7th period
1. finish your boat and penny holder designs.  Click here for project details
2. after you have submitted your boat designs begin work on your 3d printed keychains.  Click here for details.
3.WOW you finished the keychain?  Ok, now move on to creating a laser cut bag tag.  
Daniel/London – resubmit your boat design as an STL – click here for instructions
Jori/Ava –  resubmit your boat and cargo design as an STL – click here for instructions
Coltrane/Francisco – please move your cargo holders closer together and resubmit. I am happy to help you.
Will/Aiden
1. your boat design is only a hollow cylinder.  I think you didn’t click “combine all objects” when you exported as an STL.
2. The penny holder cylinder and the baseplate are not aligned.
3. Please fix both files and resubmit both as STL files..

Remember – tomorrow is Wednesday schedule.

Review-
1. phones in the phone older
2. don’t touch other people’s computers or stuff
3. no food or drink
4. no games

today:

3d printed cargo boats – start here.  You have the entire class period to complete this design. It is due at the end of the period TODAY.
Two people work on the project: one person designs the boat and one person designs the cargo container.  You can each submit a separate file.

Done with the boats?  Then begin the 3d printed keychain.  This is an individual project.

 

today – details below:
1. login to home access center for online grades and attendance
2. 123d Design skills
3. begin 3d printed cargo boat project

Seventh period ONLY – please complete this brief survey.

Part 1: see your grades online at the Home Access Center
1. go to home.tamdistrict.org
2. click on “login to home access center”
3. your username and password are the same that you used to login to a school computer.
4. look at your grades.
5. what do you do if you have questions about your grades?
>take a deep breath
>email your teacher
>talk to your teacher – NOT in the middle of class.

Part 2: we finish working on the Mars habitat design.
click here to submit your finished design as an STL.

Part 3: partner project – the 3d printed cargo boat descriptor
1. review project descriptor
2. choose a partner
3. submit your design sketch by email – details in descriptor.
4. IF there is time you may begin working on your boat and penny holder design.

 

1. sit in your assigned seats.
2. review class guidelines
3. login to your computer.  Let me know if you are having trouble logging in.
4. to help Mr. Varvil and I to get to know you better, please take a moment to complete this short survey.  Click here for the survey. 
5. launch Autodesk 123d Design on your computer.
6. we will explore 123d Design together
7. skills:
   primitives
   holes
   aligning
   resizing
   chamfer/fillet
   extruding
   combining
8. Upload your file at the end of class today – it must be exported as an STL – click here to upload.

today:

1. Boat update – after a long weekend of printing (and some issues) here’s what I have ready to print.  If I was unable to print your boat DON’T WORRY- I will give you credit based on the file that you submitted.  Today is your last chance to submit a boat file as an STL.  Click here to submit your design.
2. What about those keychains?  I will continue to print them but gave boats first priority.
3. Before you get your penny boat – or ask me questions about your boat – fill out this 3d printing self evaluation.  
4. Water tubs in the hallway – share the pennies and tally how many it took to sink your boat.
5. Last 15 minutes – move to the engineering room to watch the marble maze challenge.
6. Tuesday – tomorrow you will begin work with Mr. Varvil on marble mazes.

today:

First 20 minutes

1. all boat files must be submitted by the end of class.  Click here to submit your design as an STL.
2. review submitted boat files.
3. review notes for your class period below.  Talk to me as needed.
4. completed boats – test them in the hallway.  Quietly.  If you play around I will lower your grade.

60 minutes

You will either:
1. complete your boat designs OR

2. work on laser cutting with me.  Open Inkscape.

 

Need to convert your file to an STL?  Click here.

fifth period

Parker/Eric – file sent was Parker’s keychain and not a boat.  Send me the boat file as an STL.
Ryan/Colin – let’s take a look at your file.  The full design wasn’t not converted.
Maisy/Vanessa- not an STL
Shayne/Ziggy – not an STL
Miles- I received your boat as an STL – thanks!
Sayer/Jake- let’s review the boat file.  I had printing issues.

seventh period

Eric O. – split file into files – boat in one file, coin holder in another
Nick/Dominic – not an STL
Dean – boat file appear to be empty – let’s take a look
Matthew/Marius – split penny holder into separate file, floor of boat is thin- fix and resend
Ian/Jackson – not an STL

today-
Part 1- Laser Cutting
1. intro to laser cutting
2. intro to Inkscape
3. first laser cut

Part 2: 3d printed Penny Boat
1. click here for guidelines
2. continue work on your boat
3. click here to submit your boat design

I need STL files from the following students(you sent it as a 123dx file):
here’s how to convert files to STL: 
-in 123d Design click on the top left menu, choose Export as 3d, choose STL as the format
-make sure that the file has your last name (like milsteadkeychain.svg).  No name=no 3d print.

5th period-
Diego
Jake B.
Luna

7th period-
Joe B.
Sage
Jackson
Davis