Coming up with the IDEA (Get it hehe)
This project here has been in the making for over a month, I first got the idea for it in late September. I immediately got started on the idea by taking measurements and designing it in inventor at my house. I took so many measurements and had s0 many different ideas that I filled half a page with them. That was really all I had to do because I liked how it looked and it had a bunch of extra useful things in it.
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Making my object
The first thing I did was very simple because all it I had to do is brainstorm and take measurements. This project started a while ago and I did most of the initial design and measurements at home in late September like I said before. After I got the design I liked set up at home I came in the next day and it only took me 20 minutes to get the design right, or at least what I thought was right. You can see what I designed in inventor to the right.
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Now it time to print, this is the easiest step so all I got is some pictures for you.
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After I got the design ready to go it was time to plop it into Maker bots slicing software. I had to do this twice because the first time I put it in and did the setting I forgot to scale to 1000% and had to redo it. Then I just previewed it and made sure everything was good. Once I got the setting fine tuned and ready to go I sent to my hard drive and walked down to the printers.
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What I learned
The 3D printer rotation taught me two big things. Once again like the laser rotation it taught me how to be patient but it also taught how to step back and take a breath instead of getting mad. It reinforced the lesson the laser taught me due to the fact it took 21 hours to print my phone holder, and the errors I had in the process. The errors also taught me how to not get angry right away, instead to take a breath and try and fix it. So, as the rotations end I will miss them, even though its only a little. A theme or sentence you can use to describe all of my projects is, annoying errors.