Week 7 Prompts due 2/27

Weeks 7 Blog Prompts 

 Please note the suggested photos to include in the blog posts, plus prompts to answer - in some detail! - for that week's post.

Design & Fabrication 

 

  Photos:  Add your exploded view if it wasn't included last week. This is a necessary step before construction! Also add a screenshot of your phone stand design in Illustrator.

Prompts: 

• If you were among the students who were trained on and tried using the scroll saw and drill press: What surprised you about each tool? What is one thing you would tell someone else if you were describing your first experience using those tools? 
• What was one surprising thing you learned about Adobe Illustrator this week? 
• What is your biggest challenge in creating your design? How are you / did you over come it? 
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• ******REMEMBER ******* still work on your amp exploded design as we are working in class on the phone stand. Come in with the phone stand "1.1" design ready to go. 

Please have your blog post done by Monday 2/27 at 8:00am, although earlier is always welcome.  Email me if you have any questions or issues.
Ms. Sutter

Feb 21-23 Starting with Illustrator

Week 6 Prompt

Weeks 6 Blog Prompts 

 Please note the suggested photos to include in the blog posts, plus prompts to answer - in some detail! - for that week's post.

Design & Fabrication 

 

  Photos:  Add shots fully rendered that weren't in last weeks posts.  Add your exploded view as far as you have it done so far.

Prompts: 

• What do you think will be the biggest challenge when you go to construct your design? Do you have a clear sense of how you will actually MAKE your object? Please describe the process you envision.

Please have your blog post done by Tuesday 2/22 at 8:00am, although earlier is always welcome.  Email me if you have any questions or issues.
Ms. Sutter

Feb 13-15 Short Week

This week we had two classes and focused on annotating the rendered images of your designs.  The expectation is that the designs are annotated by class on Wednesday 2/22.  You also need ONE exploded view of your favorite design to explore and explain just how you will construct it out of various materials. 

Next week we'll also start to learn how to use the scroll saw and the drill press in small groups, and begin to use Adobe Illustrator to create files for the laser cutter.  Here's the video of the scroll saw in action!

Week 5 blog prompts due Monday 2/13

Weeks 5 Blog Prompts 

 Please note the suggested photos to include in the blog posts, plus prompts to answer - in some detail! - for that week's post.

Design & Fabrication 

 

  Photos: Add screen shots of your designs that weren't included in last week's post (no need to repeat, but add anything not done earlier). Add shots rendered in the material you think it will be made out of later.

Prompts: 

• Describe two things you like best about each new design, with the screenshots of that design.(If you have all of the designs in last week's post, then which design is your favorite at this point? Why?)
• What is one thing that you aren't sure will work about each idea (also put that with the shots of each design? (If you have all of the designs in last week's post, then what about your favorite design is still a problem for you?)
• What materials do you think you will use when you construct one design?

Please have your blog post done by Monday 2.13 at 8:00am, although earlier is always welcome.  Email me if you have any questions or issues.
Ms. Sutter

Fusion 360, Rendering, Images of finished designs

Week 5 - two classes
This week we had two classes to work on finishing up our 4 Fusion 360 designs. Some students are still a bit behind and are tasked with catching up over the weekend.  The goal is 4 distinctly different designs that will function to amplify sound.  After completing the designs, students need to have two versions of rendering - one with the clear material so we can see how things join up, and one in the materials they think they will use to create the amplifiers. Next we'll tackle exploding the designs so we can see how it might get constructed, and part of that will be exploring how to use the tools in class to cut, drill, join and glue wood and other materials to make that happen. 

Week 4 blog prompts due 2/6

Weeks 4 Blog Prompts 

 Please note the suggested photos to include in the blog posts, plus prompts to answer - in some detail! - for that week's post.

Design & Fabrication 

 

  Photos:  Screen shots of EACH design you've made so far in fusion 360. (3-4 as of Monday). You are encouraged to put in more than one view of each design so we understand how it is supposed to work.

Prompts: 

• Describe two things you like best about each design, with the screenshots of that design.
• What is one thing that you aren't sure will work about each idea (also put that with the shots of each design? 
• What did you learn from the acrylic bending / folding session on Friday? Did it give you any ideas of how you might use acrylic in one or more of your designs?

Please have your blog post done by Monday 2.6 at 8:00am, although earlier is always welcome.  Email me if you have any questions or issues.
Ms. Sutter

 

Fusion 360 designs and Acrylic Bending

Week 4 classwork

This week we had three classes, most of which was spent working in Fusion 360, as well as one day learning about how acrylic can be bent and formed with heat.  Progress is slow but gaining, and now there are a few screencasts up in Blackboard for students to access to make forms like lofted cones or lofting from one shape to another. 
Students were able to bend and form acrylic, and even saw first hand what happens when acrylic is left too long in the heat source, resulting in some bubbled / warped materials. Better to learn it early than with your actual project! :)