Background: This came from the Tinkercad challenges. The template came from this page as the idea was not something that the students had considered prior to that.
Level of Difficulty: Low-Medium. With the template available for the students to build onto everyone can essentially complete the task - the detial comes in the personalisation and once all the students have started testing the spinning tops we want the students to focus on the variables that will make a difference to the different tops ability to spin for as long as possible.
Size: The idea of printing an entire unique class set of anything can be daunting but this design measures 60mm high and is 40mm wide at the main base part. That leads in nicely to the....
Cost/Price: This print took 10g of plastic to make and the cost suggested via Bambu Lab (which tends to be very accurate) was 40c (NZD). There was a small amount of rafting associated with the bottom of the top.
What we would do differently/next steps for the students: As we have mentioned the intention with this is to run a series of class competitions around the students ability to spin the tops for the longest time. We want to lead a discussion about balance and weight, relative to this print and allow the students the opportunity to develop their ideas. Also as part of the process we want to look at time and recording the length of the spinning, using our iPads to do so and considering how we might record this information. We also want to look at technique etc. so this project is going to potentially make a nice finish to the year for the students.
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