Sunday 23 March 2014

Auroa Primary School 3D Printer Project

Our first project with Auroa Primary Schools 3D printer is going to be completed this week. We've had a group of students working on a practical problem in the classroom that they felt needed to be solved. The cupboards that are under the sink don't have working hinges for the door and as a result the doors dont shut properly. (We will be inserting a photograph of the door and the hinge here so you can see what we are trying to achieve in more detail).

The boys have been through the entire process by themselves. They have identified the problem, they've drawn plans up about what they want to create, this is Michaels original diagram. The next step for the students was to use Tinkercad to create prototypes
for the hinge.

You can see from the diagrams that there are three distinct versions, thats because Michael, James and Logan have all had differing ideas about whats going to work best. James has three entirely separate designs, so there are five in total. This week were going to 3D print all five and see which of the designs works best and which need to be refined. If none of the designs work, its back to the drawing board until we can get a solution. You can click on all of the links to the individual blogs of the students involved in the process.


7 comments:

  1. This is a very cool blog I love drawing 3D pictures. What is the website.Cordelia

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  2. Hi Room One!
    I really enjoyed reading your post, I thought it was great that you displayed your work and plans for this project.
    At our school we will also be getting a 3D Printer and can't wait to try it out!
    What are you thinking of printing in the future?

    From Georgia
    8C Selwyn House School

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  3. Hi Room One.

    I really enjoyed reading your blog post, I thought it was great how you displayed your work and plans for your project.
    At our school we will also be getting a 3D printer and can't wait to try it out!
    What are you wanting to print in the future?

    From Georgia
    8C Selwyn House School

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  4. Dear Room One,

    The looks very fun! I could never do anything like this. This must take lots of teamwork and researching to make such a thing from scratch! I've always wanted to have a 3D printer for myself to make sculptures of wonderful things.

    Kind regards,
    Mia

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  5. Hi room one,
    Your 3D printer is working which looks really cool!
    Keep posting.

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  6. Hi room 1,
    It's so cool how you have a 3D printer! What type of things have you printer or will you print? Come and visit my class blog http://8cshs.blogspot.co.nz/
    Thanks Zoe 8C Selwyn House School

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  7. Hi guys! It's Lititia here. I like your 3D printer. It's amazing. What type of things do you print on it? How did you get yours? It's looks like great fun to do. It would be cool if our school has one. Keep up the good work!

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