Tinkercad AR/VR with Dolls House Furniture

 

We have detailed how we are involving ourselves in a long term project, looking at having a combination of machines and technology from our school.

We have already used the laser cutter to start rebuilding parts of the structure that we cannot repair.   We have also started to use Tinkercad to design furniture which we are going to print and then place inside.

Our original designs were created using the Tinkercad software.  The next step for the students is to start printing the prototypes but also look at ways that we can engage all the students while this is being carried out.

We have talked about the use of the AR/VR option with Tinkercad  and the students iPads.   The students have taken the designs that they have created and then projected them into the rooms that make up the dolls house.

This has given the opportunity for the students to see the designs and what they might look like in a location where they could be placed - it also has allowed several students to refine and remake their designs as they have not looked correct or have needed adjustments to ensure that they have the correct features.

We also gave the students a figure and instructed them to apply the AR/VR of their design to fit so that it was the approximate size for the figure.   In the example of the bed shown left, the figure is the plastic M and M figure holding the fan, the bed which has been already attempted and matched with the dolls house, as shown above.

As it is recorded with an iPad you can obviously VR/AR the shape in an outside environment so you are not restricted by using a green screen.

We also wanted to give the opportunity for the furniture to be run through some of the pic collage

filters to further develop the designs.

This is a bed, designed in Tinkercad, then having a pic collage applied magic camera feature (with obviously a Christmas theme) which allowed the student to present something independently of being 3D Printed.

Again the intention was to allow the students to use their Tinkercad designs to produce something that did not necessarily lead straight away to 3D Printing.

We have started the process of including other examples such as this, in this slideshow.