The amount of time that it takes to change a habit is the same time as a moon cycle and I knew early on that I wanted my device to have a moon clock worked into the design. I began researching online and stumbled upon a wonderful instructables design for a moon clock. I love the idea of my device using the face of the moon for its display, but I wanted to make it larger in size and also have 3D craters that were carved into the form. There was some pieces of HDP in the labs that were roughly 2 feet wide, so I decided that that would be the size I would work with. Next I needed a file to cut. I thought of creating my own file, intentionally designing it so that the cuts that the 1/8" tool would make would be attractive on the material. But I started looking around and found a beautiful .stl file on NASA's 3D Resources site that had files for both the near and far side of the moon. I was drawn to how textured the far side of the book was and decided to use that for my file. I am still very new to Rhino, so my classmate Kenzo worked with me simplify the file, trim it into a circle and also adjust the depth of the craters so that were would be more variation in thicknesses, allowing light to come through at different levels.

Files Moon file