Sunday, March 5, 2023

3D Printed Tilt Table - The Springfield Town from the Simpsons

 Every year at our school the students are involved in a major project that incorporates some of the technology that is available for them to use.  In 2021/2 the students built from scratch a Pinball Machine, which then had a digitised game featuring our staff and students as the bonus and the playing field.

You can view the video recording  of the Live streamed 2022 finals for the Pinball competition here.

This year, wanting to try something different for the students we are looking at creating a marble maze, or a tilt table when the students are going to manipulate a ball through a maze, with the obstacles and the details of the maze created using our Lazer Cutter and 3D Printers.

As a test print one of our staff has worked in their independent time to create a model of the town of Springfield from the Simpsons, with 3D Printing of the major elements, landmarks and buildings that are located in the town.    These have been all produced using our schools Snapmaker machines with the individual buildings and landmarks varying slightly in print time.   We will of course, it goes without saying update you with the progress of the table as the year and work progresses.


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