Further Tinkercad 'Scribble' Examples

Challenge: Junior students (Y3/4 - seven and eight year olds) to use the scribble icon from the main Tinkercad Interface to create a unique design. 

Background: As we are nearing the end of the class term in New Zealand and the school holidays are nearly upon us it has been a time to revisit some of the activities that we have completed during the past term (ten weeks) to see how the design of the students has evolved and see what can be produced.   Earlier in the term the students first experience with this produced some pleasing ideas, as detailed in the post on this blog.

In this case one of the students decided that they wanted to produce a tag for their items and use the 'scribble' icon from the main Tinkercad interface (shown left) to produce the print.

The student knew from previous experience with the icon that all of the elements of the name/writing needed to be linked.   There also needed to be a ring as part of the print that allowed it to be attached somehow.   Again this was located from the main interface.   The student concerned is a Y4 student whose first experiences of 3D Printing have taken place in the classroom during the past four months.

Level of Difficulty: Medium.  The student was confident with their design having attempted some basic 'scribble' designs before, the student was also directed to view some calligraphy so she could have some idea of flourishing font.  However the student was confident having worked successfully on a number of prints before.  She also opted to add a star to the design as shown left.

Size: 10mm thick, 70mm long and 30mm wide.   Given the dimensions of the print and what it was intended for (a small labelling object) it also needed to be robust enough that it would last while it was in use - therefore the width of the print was needed.

Timeframe: Two hours - this was realistic given the dimensions of what was required for the print.

What we would do differently/Next Steps for the Students: Nil - the student was extremely pleased with how the print turned out and felt that it would work well for the purpose that it was intended for.