Week 16
Goals of the week
Design and produce something with a digital fabrication process (incorporating computer-aided design and manufacturing) not covered in another assignment, documenting the requirements that your assignment meets, and including everything necessary to reproduce it. Possibilities include (but are not limited to).
This is the link to the group documentation
Material
For this week our tutor has advised us to use a compound with cardboard in order to take advantage of recycled material. Although it is an individual work we decided to produce three different types of compound together: cardboard with water and vinyl glue; cardboard with water and melaena and cardboard with water and cooked rice. We took inspiration from this video.
The idea
At first I thought about creating a pen holder, then I thought it would take a long time to create a mold and counterprint the printer, so I decided to create a small box.
First I created the female by creating a rectangle in which I made the holes for the keys and then another one in which I made the holes to take out the air and water. Once done this first Assembly I created the other rectangle in which I extruded the males of the keys and the rectangle that I will shape the box. Once with the fastened I made sure that the two parts matched and that there was enough space to create the box with the compound using "turn section". I sent to print both the mold and the countermould.
For about 17 grams of cardboard, I inserted 20 grams of vinyl glue and water as needed. I blended it all with an immersion blender until a compound came out that I found quite homogeneous and of a satisfactory consistency.
Not having a precise term of comparison I did not know if it could actually go well. However, I tried placing the mixture in my mold, closing it and stopping it with the clamps over a cap in which the excess liquid will fall.
Now I have to wait a few days for the compound to dry and solidify.
You can find the downloadable files here
MoldCountermould