In Class, When I came in, I discussed with Mr. Brodie that I needed to double the thickness of the wings because they are too flimsy, so I worked on that, and I added the lightbulb. Further, I also started to glue in the lampshade, but Mr. Brodie mentioned that I needed a shell for the shade, and can then make it removable.
After Class I then went back into the lab and while the lampshade was dry, I then folded it and ran some tests. I concluded that it needed support in order to keep it from falling out, so I did that when I added 3 thin beams from the bottom, while still allowing for the shade to be removed.
Monday Nov 18. HW
For class on Monday, I came in on Saturday and fully assembled the body/fuselage of the plane, and worked on the final details like the wings. However, I still had to do the lampshade and the light which I was planning on doing during class
Week 10
Thur, Nov 14 CW – image of work completed in class
In class today, I worked on Gluing all of the components together that I printed out and everything fit the way I wanted it to. It was a struggle actually getting the straight cardboard to bend in the shape of the curve that I wanted it to, but it eventually worked out. additionally, I worked on making the engine and everything is ready to be finally glued on next class.
Thur, Nov 14 HW – image of completed homework
For class, on Thursday, I worked on the actual steps of fabricating my model and got to print out the sketches I had as I went in to class afterwards to fabricate the parts.
Tue, Nov 12 CW – image of work completed in class
In class, I completely redesigned the plane in order for it to be hollow on the inside. I also was able to create the DXF Files for it to be printed and laid it all out on the hard drive.
Tue, Nov 12 HW – image of completed homework
For homework, I modelled the lampshade panel and added the appearance features to all of my components. I went in on Sunday and worked with Mr. Brodie on possibly fabricating this lamp and we found a similar compromise where I would make the plane a square.
(There has been an error when trying to open up Fusion for the photo but will post once I have access to it).
Week 9
Fri, Nov 8 CW – image of work completed in class
In class today, I worked with my peers, Thomas and William to work on how to use the software without it getting distorted as we had similar designs, but we were unable to come to that conclusion. I also made a copy of the plane and reformed it in order to eliminate the windows and harder lines, for that to work. I also added a slot at the top where the bulb can get changed and allowed me to fit all of the requirements.
Fri, Nov 8 HW – image of completed homework
For homework, I added the fin on top and went to consult today. There was not much time to get my plane into a printable sketch, but I am planning to come in in the morning and work with him to get this into a printable sketch. When I came into class early we split the body into three pieces but when it got converted into the software, it became really messed up.
Wed, Nov 6 CW – image of work completed in class
During Class I worked on adding the engines, joining the wings to the airplane and making some of the final touches needed. Before consult where I would meet with Mr. Brodie, I will finish the final fin on the top and add some details that I would like to be shown. At consu Mr. Brodie would help me 1 on 1 to making the plane a 2d sketches and printable.
Wed, Nov 6 HW – image of completed homework
For Wednesday, I wanted to work on making the wings fit the airplane which I struggled with but was able to get the form that I wanted. I also cut out the front window and worked on the front and added details to the lamp.
Mon, Nov 4 CW – image of work completed in class
In class today I worked on smoothing out the entire rocket and eliminating different random bumps by skipping some of the previous sketches in between. I also worked on some of the wings that I made and created sketches for the details, such as windows and a hole for the light.
Mon, Nov 4 HW – image of completed homework
For homework, I worked on finishing the fuselage of the airplane and wanted to touch up the front. At first, I just worked on the back but then I was annoyed by all of the lines, I then tried to redo the fuselage with adding new sketches but the body only got messed up more.
Week 8
Thur, Oct 31 CW – image of work completed in class
In class today, I had to redo some of the sketches in order to make it smoother and ran into some errors in the back half of the fuselage. I worked on starting from nothing on some of the sketches and eventually got the loft command to work and be accurate.
Thur, Oct 31 HW – image of completed homework
For class on Thursday, I finished the sketches on the fuselage and when I went to combine them together to form the body, I got a very weird looking shape, so I am thinking to talk this over with Mr. Brodie and perhaps have to do more sketches over the intervals.
Week 7
Fri, Oct 25 CW – image of work completed in class
In class today, we did not have a full period, yet I still was able to work with Mr. Brodie in order to work on the fuselage. For this, I had to center all of the sketches, and make different offset planes in the direction and trace the sketch, in order to then use the form tool and make the main body. However, I still have some of the sketches left to do for HW.
Fri, Oct 25 HW – image of completed homework
For Class tomorrow, I discussed with Mr. brodie what the best course of action would be, and he said for me to watch some videos that model some object with reference images and how to set it up. I watched a couple videos and laid out the reference sketches along the origin. I also traced the other sketches in the other file but switched to this one now.
Thur, Oct 24 CW – image of work completed in class
In class today, I talked to Mr. Brodie on If there was any way to blend the cylinder heads together and he said no. I then had to import a sketch that I found online and scaled it to the size I wanted it to. At first, I made a sketch for the airplane, but when I imported the light bulb into the sketch, the airplane was too small. I then had to rescale the sketch to have 6 inches in diameter, but then the plane was nearly 5 feet long. This was too big, so I needed to fix this by rescaling it a third time and got it right. For homework, I am going to watch a video that will describe how I can make this plane 3d based on the three sketches.
Thur, Oct 24 HW – image of completed homework
For Thursday’s class I started to make the airplane on fusion but got stuck making the front and back pieces of the main body before I move on. To do this I will try to figure this out or ask others for help. Additionally, I further sketched my airplane making four different viewpoint sketches relevant to the designing process.
Tue, Oct 22 CW – image of work completed in class
During class Tuesday, I worked on modelling my design on fusion 360. Although I struggled at first, I asked Mr. Brodie different questions and came to the conclusion internally that this was not something that I would like to design for the rest of the project. Instead, I started from square one and sketched more copies eventually landing on making an airplane night light that hangs over the bed. Because it hangs, I spoke to Mr. Brodie and we said that the switch and cord did not need to get used, however I would still have to use the same socket. I haven’t made a full scale sketch, but will do one for homework and start modelling.
Tue, Oct 22 HW – image of completed homework
For Tuesday’s Class, I started to model out my design that I sketched in full scale, on fusion 360 today. During this process, I first decided to start modelling out my pencil eraser where the light would go. One problem I did face was between my own indecision as I am unsure if the pencil should be boxy, or octagonal, like how some are in real life. At first, I modelled it to be rectangular, but after writing my reflection, I am thinking to make it octagonal. Additionally, I picked the hinge I wanted to use from MCMastercarr and had to refresh myself how to use that platform and import those hinges.
Week 6
Fri, Oct 18 CW – image of work completed in class
In class I spent most of my time drafting a real scale accurate sketch and try and envision how to add all of the required elements. With this in mind, I decided to go with the pencil design and started to model some of it, but no real progress on fusion.
Fri, Oct 18 HW – image of completed homework
For homework, I spent my time sketching some possible design concepts down, including where I would keep the bulb, the wiring and if it is ultimately a tangible fabrication task. (We tried to fabricate intangible things for our goldberg project and didn’t 100% work). I was unable to decide between ones I had in my mind, so I sketched all of them and have some favorites going into class.
Wed, Oct 16 CW – image of work completed in class
For class I spent most of my time designing the lightbulb, including using a revolving command and different lines + dimensions. I also used new techniques and imported different drawings in which I based my sketch off of.
Wed, Oct 16 HW – image of completed homework
For homework, I reread over the design thinking process guide and started to think about possible design concepts I would like to try.
Mon, Oct 14 CW – image of work completed in class
In class today, we tried to assemble our rube goldberg project in such a way that it would work and tear the paper. One of our mistakes was poor time management as we hadn’t finished one of our simple machines and spent a lot of time fixing that but in the end, we just scrapped it. We also could’ve built tracks for the ball to travel down, in order for there to be less uncertainty, regarding the direction
Mon, Oct 14 HW – image of completed homework
For homework, there was nothing else I could do for our Rube Goldberg project as all we had to do was to just run a complete test. I went back into the syllabus and looked at the project that was scheduled to be the next and read over the assigned text which was the homework for that class.
Week 5
Thur, Oct 10 CW – image of work completed in class
for class today, I worked on and finished all of my contraptions including the wheel and axle that worked perfectly. I also helped my group work and finish everything and then we had to start assembling the contraption step by step. Initially we only had my steps but after my group finished, we had little time to assemble it but we took pictures of our progress
Thur, Oct 10 HW – image of completed homework
For homework, I came into the studio for a little bit, and worked on the pulley design, getting the rod cut out and assembled the full thing together. However, I was not sure what size cups we would use so I used the small cups but can change to use bigger ones as well. I also went home and gathered everything our group would need from home and put it in a box to prepare for Tomorrow.
Tue, Oct 8 CW – image of work completed in class
In class today, I fully fabricated my screw including the marble that glued to the string, but just have to add the string holders, I also fabricated and built the inclined plane that my group is using to start the project and I set up my pulley, but just need to attach cups, Thursday’s class, we would need to test the designs together and hope it works the way it should.
Tue, Oct 8 HW – image of completed homework
for Homework, I was unable to get into the studio on my free time so I couldn’t get much work done on my project. I am looking to go before Thursday though.
Week 4
Fri, Oct 4 CW – image of work completed in class
In class today, I spent a majority of my time fabricating the last parts of my simple machines that we are going to use and started to assemble the machines together. I marked the dowels we need and the distance we need them to get cut to and used the wood glue to start joining parts together. I also fixed the mistake I made on the ramp, and after fabricating everything, I started sanding my parts.
Fri, Oct 4 HW – image of completed homework
For Homework, I decided to work upon fixing the basketball cutout of the wood that I messed up on, because I did not offset the lines. In this case, I can either reprint the new peice out or try to fix it with wood glue.
Wed, Oct 2 CW – image of work completed in class
In class today, the printer opened up, so I was able to cutout 3/4 of my sheets of wood. This was some of the first parts my group was able to get printed and it was very easy to print as my Rhino File was all up to date and done beforehand. I noticed one error with the design that I fabricated but will try to fix that beforehand.
Wed, Sept Oct 2 HW – image of completed homework
For homework, there was nothing much I could do, but I adjusted the large base ramp that we decided on using for the bowling ball. Additionally, I gathered all of my other supplies that I am bringing in from home. I also had some extra time so made some design changes to my pulley adding shapes like circles to the sides of them.\
Mon, Sept 30 CW – image of work completed in class
In class today, the printer and the computer got messed up, so I was unable to fabricate any of my bodies in time. However, I was able to get my needed sizes of the wood printed out and created the rhino 7 file. On the file I boxed all of the my parts and put them in the boxes ready for me to print
Mon, Sept 30 HW – image of work completed Hw
For homework, I had to fix all of the joinery and flaws that I noticed once I moved the files into Rhino. Some of which included joinery, and some sketches of the wrong faces which I then fixed. I then had to go into the files that I already had saved and replaced them, the next step would be to reupload these onto the mac in class and finish bringing everything into Rhino.
Week 3
Fri, Sept 27 CW – image of completed Classwork
In Class today, I continued to work on the steps to getting my machines fabricated. I tried to see if my machines were the correct scale by modelling the balls that machines will propel forward. The wheel and axle, which I thought was too small, turned out to be the correct size when modeling the golf and pingpong balls. Additionally, I then worked to upload all of the dxf files I had onto the macbook in the fabricating room and found some flaws in my joinery for some of my simple machines.
Fri, Sept 27 HW – image of completed homework
For homework, I worked on primarily getting my machines fabricated, involving my prep work of making all of the files, dxfs. I went through all of the components, and made the files, and created separate folders for each machine, keeping the parts together. With the remaining amount of time, I worked on building and researching ways to get our ramp to hold the bowling ball upright and not fall.
Wed, Sept 25 CW – image of work completed in class
In class Wednesday, it was a shortened period, but I discussed me revisions of my machines with Mr. Brodie, and he gave me some feedback on the joinery that I then fixed. Additionally, I had to finish designing the ramp for the bowling ball and for homework, I will work on strengthening the ramp so that it can hold up the required weight. I then started to make the dxf files for all of the components I need to fabricate.
Wed, Sept 25 HW – image of completed homework
For my Homework, I had to fix all of the joinery in my wheel and axle and change the way that I want it to move the ball of marbles forward, now pushing it rather than popping it. I also worked on the list we made in class and made the final ramp with the divider that the final pulley would lift up and then allow the bowling ball to go through the paper and rip it.
Mon, Sept 23 CW – image of work completed in class
In Class Monday, I discussed with my group to figure out where we are laying out our simple machines and also came to an agreement as to what items we needed to bring in for our machines to work. We also brainstormed a list as to what we needed to fix regarding our overall machine and what needs to be added. Additionally, I reviewed my simple machines with Mr. Brodie and got advice as to what I need to fix.
Mon, Sept 23 HW – image of completed homework
For Class, I worked on finishing all of my simple machine designs on fusion360. I chose to use a lever, wheel and axle, inclined plane, screw and a pulley. I also tried to make designs that incorporated our school theme into our build, making math cutouts, and engraving different possible grades on an exam into my pulley. I also made a stand for my pulley to give it some stability.
Week 2
Thur, Sept 19 CW – image of work completed in class
In class today I went into more detail for my simple machines including making the base for the pulley and fixing the joints, along with making my screw detailed as well.
Thur, Sept 19 HW – image of completed homework
For Thursday’s Class, I tried to finish my fourth simple machine, but it took longer than I expected. I just have to construct the base which I am planning to use as a bookshelf, for some of the books. I added holes in the initial stand for the letters to be visible in the pulley and also made the joinery.
Tue, Sept 17 CW – image of work completed in class
In class today I designed my fourth simple machine and touched up all three of mine to make sure they were pretty much complete. I decided to make a pulley for the fourth one, and I needed to resize all of my designs as they were too small for the actual surface.
Tue, Sept 17 HW – image of completed homework
For Tuesday’s homework, I further worked on the Inclined plane, creating a ramp that had different math symbols carved along the outside of it. I also worked on finishing up the screw and created the joinery and holes needed to attatch the tracks to the main body.
Week 1
Sat, Sept 14 CW – image of work completed in class
I was not able to be in class today because I was at a XC meet. I was able to nearly finish the screw, also creating a “track” our string can wrap around to keep the movement controlled. I also started the joinery for the inclined plane.
Sat, Sept 14 HW – image of completed homework
For homework, I finished up my complex wheel and axle design and started on the inclined plane. Some challenges I faced while completing this was that at first, this wheel was too high off the ground. Once I fixed that, I needed to adjust all of the other dimensions and added joinery. However, based on our other contraptions, this might need to change.
Thur, Sept 12 CW – image of work completed in class
In class today, we first did all of the measurements for our platform which we decided on the stairs. We then modeled it in fusion so as we finish the simple machines, we could then upload them into that file. I then worked on the wheel project which I am almost finished with as I restarted the concept today. I did not like how my original design looked, so I then decided to change it and the dimensions. I found the right dowel size as well in class and our group finalized our design.
Thur, Sept 12 HW – image of completed homework
For class on Thursday, I prepared myself with a whole other concept contraption sketch with some of the same parts and 4 machines, but simpler and more straightforward. Additionally, I sketched 2 simple machines I would like to use, the wheel and axle, and the screw and how I would make them look visually pleasing ie: disguising the wheel to look like a Ferris wheel. Finally, with the time I had left, I started to sketch the parts of the wheel into fusion 360.
Tue, Sept 10 CW – image of work completed in class
For Classwork today, I brainstormed with my group over our machine and our final goal was to rip a failed test. We would like to incorporate some sort of water into it along with our 4 simple machines, the screw, the lever, the inclined plane, the wheel and axle, and a pulley. We have also tried to incorporate things that we like and will finalize last class.
