Wildcard

Assignments:

Group assignment:

⚡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.

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For the Wildcard week we decide to do ¨things¨ related to biomaterials (or I tried to do that). I choose that topic cause I'm not used to experiment with materials and with the help of my friends and a lot of reserch I could made it

In this case, I used the material developed by Materiom, chemical knowledge from friends and interest in the management of the waste that I currently generate when drinking mate or coffee propelled this experiment. Below you can see the whole ingredients.

Test 1 - Used Yerba mate

The ingredients and the measurements are extracted from Materiom but in that moment I did not have the way to measure the exact amount, for example, in case of the used yerba and the used coffee I've use small tuppers to divide the amount of material that I had.

Problems: But... at first I did not figure out that the material have to be dry, to mixing correctly with others things.

An other problem start when I/ve already prepare the whole thing but is seem to me "very liquid"

Solution: When I started to read and ask others I found the error, the mix have to be a dry one. So, I started to press the mix with a paper towel to dry the accumulated water. Also I added

It can be said that the material is: 80% Solid 20% Gelatinous

Becoming like a jelly that can be used by children in schools

Test 2 - Used coffee

I love coffee, I'm always drinking a little at home.

But when I make a little more I have to get rid of the used coffee. So I started researching how I could do it, got to Materiom and tried this.

Leave with the mixture of coffee + water + baking soda + vinegar for 1 day in the container. The next day I added a little glycerol and poured the preparation into existing molds in the workshop.

The result was a solid component but easy to decompose, that is, with moderate pressure it deformed, so it can be determined that it would be a good material to incorporate it into the garden, as a replacement for pots whose plants must be planted on the ground.