As we move towards our end of school year in New Zealand we have a group of students who have been working on 3D Printing related projects during the year. These projects include:
We have featured a huge array of prints from one student this year who is continuing to drive themselves to complete a range of complex and detailed task. Their latest flexi-animal design (completely original) is this mini raptor.
This print took two hours to complete and will be featured in a seperate post at later date. There is no additional details required for this print as it is fully finished the linking is correctly and working as intended. The print time has come in at two hours perfect for this size of project/animal.
The student has redesigned this again wanting to experiment and establish successful linking between the sections of the pig so that the animal can be posed or adjusted. The previous larger version of this was sixteen hours - this newer version is a quarter of the size hence the four hour print time. The student has designed the features of the face by themselves and used Tinkercad to do so - so it is a completely original design as we have stated of the highest standard.
3D Printed Bottle Cap Launcher
A student has continued to work on the launching mechanism associated with a design found on Thingiverse. The original is based around using a US coin to provide the counterweight - the student was challenged to match this to a New Zealand coin of similar size. The student has also engineered the launching mechanism by introducing a magnet to hold the battle cap in place and used a hot glue gun to modify the inside of the gun. The student wanted to create additional space in the inside of the gun and thus used a hot glue gun which reached the required temperature to melt the existing PLA so he was able to complete a considerable modification. There has been no additional printing since this was first detailed on this blog however the student is intending to print additional material for the launcher once he has completed the internal engineering.
3D Printed Animal Contact Tags
In another classroom in the school with Year 3/4 students the teacher has just started the students on 3D Printing and 3D Printed projects. Their very first foray into 3D Printing is to look at producing a dog tag or animal tag, suitable to hang on the collar of a domestic animal. The students are producing and individual print which is taking 15 to thirty minutes to print. A basic example is shown left the print being 70mm across 40mm high and 5mm thick.
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