In Science 9, we made an electric house project with Christmas lights, wires and switches made with brass and paperclips. I was able to use Tinkercad to 3D print and object to fix a problem in our electric house.
Define: A challenge that was found in the electric house was with the wiring. The house is 2 stories tall with the lighting on the roof of each story. The Christmas lights were pointy and long which caused the lights to stick through the cardboard roofing of the house. When the second story was being attached, the lights were sticking out of the first story and made an uneven gap between the two floors making it unbalanced.
Another challenge that we had was that when we made our design in Tinkercad, we had a few failed attempts with the designs with getting it attached to the plate. When we printed our design, we originally printed 6 pillars, 2 that were 8.5 inches tall and 4 that were 4 inches tall. While printing, 2 of the pillars (8.5) failed to print properly.
Dream: As a solution to the roofing and flooring issue, me and my group had decided to 3D print 4 pillars to make a gap between the two floors making it still accessible to wiring if there were to have any problems. To solve the problem of the model not attaching to the plate, we added supports to the bottom of the pillars to connect it to the plate to be able to start printing. To solve the problem of the 2 pillars failing, we improvised by using the 4 pillars to support the two floors and used the remaining parts of the 2 failed pillars to add stability into our house in-between the floors.
Deliver: How i packaged and published my solution was by taking risks by choosing to add a fireplace to our house. How i packaged my solution was by making sure i took photos of everything we had done and making sure to edit the photos to make sure it is clear what i am talking about. I published my solution well by making sure that all the planning was nice and neat and all my drawings and Phet simulator were easy to understand.
Debrief: I am very proud and satisfied of how the project went. Everything went pretty smoothly and i am very proud about all the effort that went into it and all the teamwork. I am very proud of how well we managed our time by assigning each group member to a certain part of the house that match their strengths. I think that for next time, we could have been less ambitious with the size of the house and could have gotten the same grade by shrinking the size of the house but adding the same amount of detail. Another improvement that could have been made was that the wiring went behind the house instead of on top saving the time making such difficult 3D print to hide all the wiring.
