Day 4.

We had our 4th meeting yesterday at 12:30 during Rachael's lab section. I am glad to say that it was indeed productive. We were working on solid works making models of our components, the frame and the star.



We modified our frame. It's now standing at a staggering height of 4.5 inches. It'll be great. I'm pretty excited about this one.

 After the basic size and shape of the cone, we cut holes into it and made it into a frame so it wouldn't go above the maximum criteria for the 3D printing. This process in particular was a challenge at first because we were weren't use to cutting on an axis or rounded surface. It was kind of daunting at first but we figured it out eventually. As luck would have we discovered a tool call a revolved cut, that made things so much easier. Just so much easier. And Voila! We have ourselves a frame.

 Our next component was our star. Devon made the star on solid works with us giving her pointers on how to construct it. At first it looks kind of crazy with all the lines and stuff. We didn't know how to start. We wanted a perfect star, it had to be perfect. It just had to. We eventually added more lines at equally spaced angles and connected lines from line to line like the picture above on the right. Our work in progress.

 Our completed star.
Behold, it was perfect and uniform, just like we wanted.

We cut a hole through its center for the led light.
A start to a fabulous project.






That was Rachael's iced coffee by the way. It somehow crept into the photo.
No drinks in the lab, she should know better. Oh well. What a rebel.


And with the completion of our components for 3D printing, we submitted our pieces. The duration time of our parts estimated a combined total of approximately 8 hours. Good luck with that.

We ended our meeting after that and wished each other a Happy Thanksgiving before the break. We'll be meeting again once the break is over and hopefully our parts will be ready.

Meeting Duration: 45 min.