Homework 06.01: 3D Printed Ring
When I initially started this project I was thinking about creating a pretty plain circular ring such as the one labeled "unit cell" above. However I just finished watching Inception (great movie by the way) at the time and I thought I'd make things more exciting by creating a "rings inside a ring" design. Suddenly, my initial plain ring idea became the unit cell for the final ring design, which is actually 12 individual rings (2 by 6) combined in a circular pattern to form a larger ring!
In the step above, I tried to achieve an interesting white color gradient by soaking one end of the ring in acetone. The acetone chemically reacts with the PLA to turn the surface of the black PLA white. The coloration is stronger the closer the surface is to the acetone bath which allows me to create this gradient
Homework 06.02: Laser Cut Name Tag
For my name tag project, I wanted to do more than just include plain text in my design and so I went ahead and tried engraving an interesting image along side the text. Engraving was not as straight forward as I thought. During the first laser engrave run, the JPG image simply failed to engrave. I asked one of the Design Specialists at Jacob's Hall and he recommended vectoring the image or rasterizing the image. Thankfully, the vector-based image seemed to play well with the laser cutter~
Homework 06.03: Arduino Shield
- Project already turned in and documented last week on Hackster.IO webpage
- Please see HW 5: Art Machine and Arduino Shield by Jimmy Huang
Homework 06.04: Remote Controlled Vehicle Chassis Designs
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