Your mission is to create a hollow brick shape will attach to other, similar shapes made by your classmates.
How will they connect? Nuts and bolts.
Why? To improve our skills around designing for fasteners as attachments.
How many shapes do I make? One.
Who makes the rest? The class.
Do measurements matter? Yes. Read on.
Design:
You will pick a shape at random. Each of you will draw from the hat for the shape you will make.
Two sides of your brick will have recessed holes for the nut with a center hole for the bolt.
The other two sides of your brick will have holes for the nuts.
If your shape has only three sides than you pick which sides have holes for the hex nut and which sides have holes for the bolt.
Properly sized holes will allow your brick to be attached to other people’s bricks.
Place your initials on one side of the brick as a hole.
Measurements:
Recess for nut – use a hexagon to make a hole using these measurements in millimeters. The hole should fit FLUSH (flat) on the inside of the hole.
The bolt hole should be 3.2mm in diameter.
The holes should be centered vertically and horizontally on each side.
Brick measurements in millimeters:
Outside measurements:
No larger than 35mm on the largest measurements.
10mm high.
Make the sides no thicker than 3mm.
Inside measurements of shape hole:
The hole should be centered in the the solid shape.
Leave enough room for the hex wrench to fit INSIDE the shape. This means at least 25 mm so the wrench will fit.
