3-9-2015

Start designing.  Begin by designing the space (hole) that will hold the flash drive itself.  This is a good time to measure the flash drive AGAIN.  Measure twice, cut once.  A significant part of your grade is based on how well your measurements accurately allow for the flash drive to be hot glued into the 3d print as well as how well the flash drive fits into the USB port.

After you have built the hole you may begin designing the outer case.  Don’t start with the case design until you have finished the hole and CHECKED YOUR MEASUREMENTS.

3-5-2015/Milstead’s group

today:

Part 1 (15 minutes)
IF your keychain printed then add the following to your blog:
-a photo of your keychain
-a description of what you learned – be specific about what you learned about 3d printing and what was the same or different between your tinkercad.com and your 3d print.
-a description of what you would do differently

Part 2 (30 minutes)
1. measure for your flash drive project – click here to learn how to use the calipers

2. complete the flash drive project worksheet with your measurements

3. draw your final design on the worksheet and include measurements in millimeterflashdriveworksheetcompletes.  Limit your design to no larger than 90mmx60mmx20mm.  Keep in mind that the flash drive holder has to fit in ALL USB drives.

4. begin your design work.

2-26-15 Milstead’s group

Your LAST day of 3d modeling and printing.  For now.  On Monday you will go to Varvil’s room.

TODAY use your time wisely as you have three tasks to accomplish.

1. finish your Dream Structure

2. start – and finish – the Kinetic 3d printed piece

3. write a summary blog post that describes:
-what you learned about what can be done with 3d design and printing?
-what you learned about the limitations of 3d printing?
-what you would like to do  next in this class related to 3d printing?

2/12/15 with Varvil

Today’s goals:

Complete and submit your MultiMeter design as an attachment to Bvarvil@tamdistrict.org

Create a blog post titled “CAD/CAM with PlasmaCAM”. On this post, include:

  • Picture(s) of your cardboard version of your multimeter design
  • screenshot(s) of the CAD PlasmaCAM design you created using relative coordinates.
  • Pictures of your cut multimeter (If it gets cut)

Copy and address the prompts in this post:
1)”What is the goal of this CAD/CAM Project as you understand it? What are the learning goals as you understand them?”
2)”Describe your project. What is it? What does it do?”
3)”Describe the measurements that are critical for this project to be successful”