Using Tinkercad as an AR/VR Tool And Pic Collage

 

The title of the post is hopefully somewhat self explanitory.  Our students have the ability to use their iPads for a range of tasks - and of course for CAD design and creation we are looking at Tinkercad as our App of choice.

One of the things that we fell into by accident in recent years has been crossing the apps over into different design techniques.   We have done this by creating original designs in Tinkercad, such as the truck shown left.

It was created by a student using the basic geometric shapes, and adding details like the mud guards by using the scribble tool.  Once this has been completed the student used the colour palette on Tinkercad to create the colour variation.   An eight year old student spent time minutes (we had a timer on in the classroom with a countdown clock) the student then took his iPad outside and used the app function to AR/VR the design into place, in the case of the photograph outside of a classroom.

Once this was completed and the student then applied a Pic Collage AR/VR filter to the picture.  In this instance the student used one of the currently 'free' VR filters (festive).   Pic Collage have a range of filters and while a number of them are pay-walled for further access they also have several which are 'free' for basic app use.

The entire process was completed independently by the student in a shortened afternoon block.   Its purpose was to have the student considering the options in the future.   By combining the two apps together they added creativity and detail to the original design.

You can see many further examples of this process and output by clicking on the search bar to your right and using the keyword 'Pic Collage'.   We have completed a number of these projects and will continue to build on them over the coming days.