PORTABLE 3D PRINTER-SCANNERSTEP 12: COMPOSITES
OBJECTIVE
- Make the foldable piece of my final project
PROCEDURE
1. I cutted my 3mm thick design in the Shopbot using a 18mm thickness wooden rectangle and following the same procedure of the Week 8 assignment.
2. I cutted 4 10x10cm fiber pieces for experimenting with different quantities of resin.
3. I opened paint from four different colors: red, blue, green and white



4. I poured the white, red, green and blue paint in each of the four fiber pieces
5. I poured resin in this quantity order:
- white (10% of the mixture) < red (20% of the mixtur) < green (50% of the mixtur) < blue (75% of the mixtur)
6.
I realized that I could combine resin and paint in different ratios and
the mixture would be rigid with just a little bit of resin.


7. I put celophan in my Shopbot design, so I would be able to take the celophan and the mixture out of design...and use it,

8.
I cut fiber line pieces and put them over the celophan.. However, when
I poured resin in the fiber line pieces, they moved and I got a mess.

9.
So...I cut bigger fiber pieces: 3 thick rectangles that can create a
'U' shape. I poured resin in the center of the pieces for cutting the
outsides of the pieces once the resin is dry.


10. This was the result!

11.
Here is my CAD file in idw. format and
Here it is DXF format.