Week 04 - Critical Making

Collaborative Learning

Fusion 360 model 2D

Fusion 360 3D-model of top part

Fusion 360 analysis

'Invisible jointing' 2D

1) First immediate take on stacking the hardware space efficient

5) Actual outcome trying to fit in the the hardware. Trying is the key here.

6) Attempt to melt away material making space for parts of the circuit board that I didn't take note of when sketching

Being the editor of the week together with Anna, we decided to go with a little different binding as seen on the drawing

3-4) Adding measurements while sketching analogue as well as in Fusion. A more lineare workflow with a more thought-through and measured-through sketch made before going into fusion would have been recommendable..

Workflow.-ish.

3) Sketching a box that could contain the actual components

2) Measuring all components and added the dimensions to pictures of them

Working with Anna was uncomplicated. Mainly because we - apart from talking about how one could possible stack the components efficiently in the beginning - didn't really collaborate. We went into it as two individuals with two different visions. It might have something to do with 3D sketching being somewhat of an "try and error-thing" were it's hard sit side by side and get the same amount of knowledge out of it.

I might be mistaken, but I also belive that the two of us are used to working in a different way when it comes to collaborating. Anna has been working in marketing for quite some time where I on the opposite have been used to only work in groups during my whole bachelor. It's therefore also natural for me to collaborate in the sense of litterally working together instead of collaborating in the sense of more people contributing towards one aim.

Learning a new software takes time.. So much time.. And I who
thought that I by now would be able to adapt pretty fast since I
have been working in other graphic progammes ... Never have I been
so wrong

Fusion is about doing things the proper way at first. It's sometimes easier to go way back and start all over than correcting

Different filaments give very different results quality-wise. The one with copper within it (or was it bronze?) feels extremly nice due to the extra weight it gives

Always remeasure... again and again and again.

Everything that "stands alone" and is smaller than 5 mm in diameter will eventually break.

The 3D printer can print decent circles vertically. They will be crooked and of poor quality if printed horisontally because of the filaments natural round shape will create an uneven surface.

What I learned from making my first ever 3D print: