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.
