3D Printed Robot

 

Challenge: For student to create a unique design that would fit into a lego scene.    

Background: This design came from the lego challenge however the student concerned felt that the design would be best suited for something else.  They weren't sure what they wanted to do exactly but they felt that by increasing the scale and size of print would elevate it into a different kind of print.

The student spent time making sure that they worked on the form of the design - details like the hands.  A sense of humour came through in the sense of having a smaller figure in the head of the robot as the controller.   This is a removable figure and has potential for development with additional figures potentially being swapped in.   The figure itself has the potential for significant development as we typically ask our student: what is the purpose of this print? what could we use it for?

The design in this case was created by a cohort two student who worked independently on it in his own time - there was no teacher input other than the teacher printing the project.

Resources used to complete the project: Tinkercad App, iPad, Bambu Printer (H2D) and regular purple PLA from Bambu.

Level of Difficulty: Medium/High.   Although this design is going to get more complicated in the future it is already relatively complicated and would rate as one of the more complicated designs from the students.

Size: The student started off at a not lego/lego scale and then increased it significantly.   The print as it stands measures 100mm across is 190mm high and is 30mm wide.  The command centre at the top was 30mm across and 20mm high,   The command figure inside was 25mm high and 10mm wide.

Cost/Price:   The print uses 147g of filament.  This has a price point of  $3.70 to produce.     There was some limited PLA rafting of this design.

Timeframe: On standard default settings this had a print time of four hours and eighteen minutes.

What we would differently/Next Steps for the student: We have already talking about what next or what could be developed to engage with this design.  As it stands at present the design needs a defined purpose rather than being limited to a novelty item.  There is the possibility that it could be used for storage etc but then a dedicated storage area needs to be developed.   The design stands however it is a bit top heavy so perhaps some stability could be look at.