Makerbot Contest Entry by Dracoulou

Last crawled date: 3 years, 4 months ago

My entry into the makerbot contest is designed to help students organize everything they need for their classes in one easy to reach place. It has an area to put pencils, pens, and erasers, it has a slot in the back to put a ruler or two, and it was a large opening for all the paper needed for classwork. The best part of it however, is the schedule organizer. With 118 pieces, almost any schedule imaginable could be displayed on the front, with the period number and start time. On the back of each period piece, there is also a slot to put paper with the names of your classes written on them, making it customizable for any set of classes.
What issues did you come up against?
The biggest issue I had when designing this creation was the program I used, Tinkercad, not working very well on my computer, causing the project to take far longer to complete than it could have. I also had to grapple with my inexperience at designing things in 3D, though I had plenty of time to improve.
If you could redesign this again what would you change?
If I could redesign this, I would try to add slot for the end time of a class, as I wasn't able to make that fit in the final draft of my design. It might not be quite as important as the start time, but it is still something that is important to know.
How would 3D printing help strengthen your design?
Being able to 3D print my design would help me to try out different sizes of tiles and pieces so I could more efficiently size my pieces. Not knowing exactly how pieces would fit together in the program sometimes made it difficult to scale some of the smaller pieces, and being able to 3D print them to compare the sizes would help fix that issue.