For Drafting this year, I have completed two major assignments. The first was the Cricket cutter, where I was taught how to use the cricket machine to create stickers of different colours and shapes. The goal of this project was to make four separate stickers that we would put on our ADST folder, which we would use to store our completed work in the future. The first sticker we made was our name tag. This was the simplest sticker to make, the only steps being to choose a font and write your name. The second sticker was a symbol ofour own choice. We were instructed to use the Cricket browser to find two shapes, and then fuse them to create our original design. I decided to use a circle and star to create something similar to Captain America’s shield, although I was not going for this. The third sticker we built was our Cohort Animal. We started this part by voting on an animal to symbolize our Cohort. We had a few choices like the possum, and the octopus, but our final decision was the turtle. Our assignment was to find a picture of a turtle online to print. Before this, we also needed to clear out the background so the shape was visible and properly formed. The last sticker we created was our science safety rule. For this step, we needed to choose one of the many options of rules we would need to represent with an illustration. The rule I chose was to wear closed-toe shoes in the lab. We then had to draw a logo showing off this rule to the people who see it. I represented this with a sandal and a circle and cross over it showing how you should not wear open-toed shoes in a lab. I used blue, gold, and red paper to create each piece separately.
The second major project was our balloon car. For this project, we built a car using the 3D printer to measure it’s speed and distance. We were first introduced to TinkerCad, a tool that’s used to make models that can be exported into the 3D printers. We had to follow a tutorial to learn the functions of the app including how to size, colour, cut, duplicate, and measure our designs. After this we were given a second tutorial to learn how to build a basic car model with tubes and wheels to power the it. We were then free to design our own car with different shapes and different styles of tubes. Our final step was testing the speed and distance of the car in action.
