Post to your blog all the different inflatables you created. Document the movements and reflect on your learning experience.
What is it interesting about this type of mechanism compared to other you might haver build with motors?
What parts could be moving in your project? How could you use what you learned in this class for your project?
<aside> 📌 Drawing the Sketch
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Me and my teammates made five inflatables, but two of them failed during the ironing process. Below is my documentation:
We first used Rhino to create some sketches for the vinyl cut, and I used this circle shape, which is supposed to fold up when inflating. I referred to the reading on the journal on the website, and the screen shot is on the left. I mainly used [symmetry] in Rhino to make the sketch more accurate. At first, I found it quite hard to make symmetrical shapes in Rhino because I was not able to find the symmetric axes. However, I managed to create auxiliary lines in between the small elements. And I later realized that for the round shape in Rhino, the default status of the symmetric axes (or dot) is the center of the circle, and I checked the boxes on the left column (image on the right side).
In general, I think the auxiliary lines I made were definitely not the best solutions to make this shape in Rhino, and I think there must be eaiser ways to create the shape since I have the feeling that Rhino is useful to create symmetrical shapes.
<aside> 📌 Vinyl Cutter and making process
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We later uploaded the images onto the CavasWorkspace to connect with the Vinyl Cutter. However, we failed twice at first because the blader somehow did not come out. I finally printed a small version of the shape at first.
I ironed the model, but because it was too small, I was not able to achieve a very visible result during the subsequent practical work. So I printed a larger version.
But when I ironed, my iron stayed on the piece too long, causing the area where I put the baking paper to stick as well, so this didn't work out very well either.
<aside> 📌 Summary
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We made 5 models in total, and the image is below. We ran into other problems when making other images because we didn’t iron every corner well, so we used some tape to cover the air lekage parts. We created our own shape of a duck, and we found that the shape of this inflatable device does not have to be symmetrical to be cute.
The links for video documentation are below.
https://youtube.com/shorts/1409rckafyg?feature=share
<aside> 📌 Anwering two other questions
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