Week 12

Week 12 

For this week’s lesson, we learnt more in depth from where we left off in week 7, 3D printing. This week’s lesson, our class has adopted peer teaching where we were each assigned specific topic to do research on and present to the class.  Not only did we get to share with the class on what we have researched on, we were also able to learn from other groups on what they found online. It was truly an amazing session, and we were able to understand more about 3D printing.  

After lecture, we were also tasked to complete a short 8 questions MCQ online in blackboard to test our understanding from the lecture and activities. We feel that this new peer teaching method is definitely very helpful to let us deeper understand 3D printing. 

 

 

Week 13 

For this week’s practical, it was our first time entering the fab lab. We were first given a small presentation by the lecturer on what is corrugated fibreboard and how to make use of different techniques to make different type of joinery to create our own 3D cardboard model. 

 

                          Figure 1: Different sample types of cardboard joinery 

 

Our group has decided to make a cardboard clock model that includes 8 types of different uses of cardboard joinery.  

 

 

 

After several hours of work, we have achieved our goal of a cardboard clock model with 8 different types of joinery used.  

 

 

The 8 types of joinery used includes: 

1) Score + Bend (Frame of the clock) 

2) Moving parts (Hour/minute hand of the clock) 

3) Stack (Hour/minute hand of the clock) 

4) Tabs (Numbers on the clock) 

5) Gusset (Small triangles that support interior of the clock) 

6) Pin hole (On/Off button) 

7) Slots (On/Off button) 

8) Flange (the stand of the clock) 

 

Reflection: 

For this week’s lesson, we have learnt a lot of things such as different types of joineries as well as how to make use of them to make actual 3D cardboard models. We have also learnt how to work fast as our group only have 3 people and we have to split up the tasks accordingly in order to achieve our goal of completing the cardboard clock model within 2 hours of time. It was definitely challenging, but our group has certainly overcome the difficulties and achieved our goal. This lesson was truly bonding for our group.