Greetings from Vågen. We, Emma, Karoline, Bjørn-Martin and Siri, are the Design Ambassadors team from the class 1KDAA. We are currently making four mechanical toys that will be a part of the project Erasmus+.
This type of mechanical toy is called automaton and uses manual force to move. Everyone on the team had to design and craft their unique toys, each with a different design and function, all the while being thematically linked. We achieved this by designing four automatons based on the field of science, and by sharing the same color palette that we got from the painting “the ambassadors” (1533) from the renaissance.
This painting played a big role in the creation of ideas for the project. From the elements in the painting, we got inspiration for what our theme would be, as well as what our automatons would resemble. We decided our automatons should serve as decorations for adults. The task was very open, but each automaton had to include some wood, metal and 3D printing.
3D Printing is the process of making digital files into three-dimensional items/objects/thingamajigs with the use of a 3D printer making shapes layer by layer, giving form to the material.
None of us have used programs to create designs compatible with a 3D printer before. We learned to use Tinkercad, which is an easy to use cad modeling program, and also Sculptris although it is not a program primarily meant for 3D printing but rather gamedesign. Sculptris lets you make organic designs because it works like shaping a lump of clay but on the computer. Designs made in Sculptris can be converted to be put in Tinkercad. By using Cura we could prepare our designs for the 3D-printed.
Siri: Designet til min Automata ble for det meste inspirert av «Den Vitruviske Vann» (1487) av Leonardo Da Vinci, som blir sett på som en stor del av tidsperioden som vi for øyeblikket studerer. «Den Vitruviske Mann» ga meg ideen om å ha et menneske inni en firkant-sirkel form som vifter med armene og beina. Men jeg bestemte meg for at menneske skulle i stedet være et skjellet fordi jeg ble inspirert av den gjemte skallen i «Ambassadørene» (1533) av Hans Holbein.
Skjelettet ble laget av å forme tynn ståltråd som har blitt dekket med maskeringsteip av en bein-lignende farge. Hodeskallen og føttene derimot ble laget av hvit plastelina. Stangen som skjelettet er festet på er et svart malt sugerør. Firkant-sirkel formen er skåret ut av tre. Oppgaven inneholder tre i kassen og firkant-sirkelen, metall i skjelettet og mekanikken, og håndtaket er den 3D-printede delen.
Resultatet ble bedre enn jeg hadde forventet. I begynnelsen var jeg skeptisk til å lage en leke fra bunn av, noe som bremset hele prosessen. Men etter noen endringer i designet så det ut til å bli både mulig og finere.
Bjørn Martin: I used the 3D program Tinkercad to print out two gears. I use the gears to rotate with each other and spin my globe around. I preferred the 3D program Tinkercad because I thought it was easier to make a gear in Tinkercad than the other programs. We were shown two programs, Tinkercad and Sculptris. I would have used Sculptris if I was going to create something more advanced like a face or a dragon. But because I planned to make two gears, I used Tinkercad. I think Sculptris is more detailed than Tinkercad. When I printed the gears, I glued one of the gears to a stick with the handle, and the other gear to the stick which hold the globe. After I glued them together, I sat the sticks and the gears together so when I rotate the handle, the globe rotates.
Karoline: I used sculptris first, to make the shape I wanted, then I put the model from sculptris into tinkercad, after that I put it into cura. I prefer sculptris for 3D-printing since it is a very good and easy program to work with if you want to make organic shapes, or for example heads or body parts for a figure, like I did in this project. I tried to integrate the 3D-printed shape into my design on my toy through the use of colors and shapes, I used the color white on the body of my creature and the head, that I 3D-printed, was white. I also made an organic and lively shape of the head, which fitted the rest of my creature well, since it was supposed to look like it is a living creature. I have learned how to use the two 3D-programs Tinkercad and Sculptris, I have also learned how to make a 3D-printed object fit into a bigger figure that is not 3D-printed.
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