Criterion A - Inquiry And Analysing

Research

Timeline of Digital Printing

What is Digital Printing

Digital printing assemblies each image from a complex set of numbers and mathematical formulas. These images are captured from pixels, and this process is called digitizing. The digitized images are then used to control the deposition of ink, toner or exposure to electromagnetic energy to reproduce the data.

Digital printing uses a color management system, which keeps images looking the same despite where they are printed.

In 1993 the world's first digital color printing press was launched called Indigo. Overnight it triggered a transformation in the printing world - customers were able to choose short-run, personalized, high-quality print straight from the desktop.

References

printed.com. (2016). printed.com's vision has always been to lead the printing industry.. [online] Available at https://www.printed.com/history-of-digital-print [Accessed 5 Oct. 2016].

3D Printing

What is 3D Printing

3D printing or is a process of making three-dimensional solid objects from a digital file.

How Does 3D Printing work

It all starts with making a virtual design of the object you want to create. This virtual design is, for instance, a CAD (Computer Aided Design) file. This CAD file is created using a 3D modeling application or with a 3D scanner (to copy an existing object). A 3D scanner can make a 3D digital copy of an object.

What is the technology behind 3D Printing

Not all 3D printers use the same technology. There are several ways to print and all those available are additive, differing mainly in the way layers are build to create the final object.

Some methods use melting or softening material to produce the layers. Selective laser sintering (SLS) and fused deposition modeling (FDM) are the most common technologies using this way of 3D printing. Another method is when we talk about curing a photo-reactive resin with a UV laser or another similar power source one layer at a time. The most common technology using this method is called stereolithography (SLA).

Where can you find 3D Printing?

Applications include rapid prototyping, architectural scale models & maquettes, healthcare (3D printed prosthetics and 3D printing with human tissue) and entertainment (e.g. movie props).

Other examples of 3D printing would include reconstructing fossils in paleontology, replicating ancient artifacts in archaeology, reconstructing bones and body parts in forensic pathology and reconstructing heavily damaged evidence acquired from crime scene investigations.

Who wold use 3D Printing?

• Toy companies
• Chocolate Companies
• Car companies
• Ring companies
• Shoe companies
• Airlines
• Electronic-Making companies

TinkerCAD

Lesson 1

Reflection

I moved the tower by pressing the tower with a left click and I moved it that was my lesson done.

Lesson 2

Reflection
I learned to do the camera controls by holding the right click and then moving the camera
Lesson 3

Reflection: Creating holes is another important lesson. TO make holes is easy because all you have to do is select the hole feature. This was one of the most important since you have to make holes in objects and not everything is solid. You would need to select another shape to make a whole on the other object.

Lesson 4

Reflection: This was a pretty easy lesson. We could copy and paste easily. To scale it was easy just like in every other type of software, you get a corner and you move it around to make it bigger or smaller. TO copy was a very helpful one where you could hold alt and drag and it would make a copy easily.

Lesson 5

Reflection: This was a very interesting lesson. To make everything customized, you need letters. There is a section on the right where you can select a letter and it has the whole alphabet. You can jut select one of them from the list and place them in the allocated spot which will be in orange.

Lesson 6

Reflection: This lesson taught a very useful tip. Adding a work plane. If you need to add anything on top of another object, you add a work plane and then you can drag the object on that. This was very helpful, and making many objects you need to add more objects to an existing object. All we had to do was add a work plane and add the numbers on.

Lesson 7

Reflection: This lesson taught me a useful tool. How to copy many objects easily. All I did was hold alt and then drag to the next area. This made the job easy. This was more of a test of your patience and what you remember than learning a new thing

Lesson 8

Reflection: This was the most simple lesson. All we had to do was add a workplace on top. Then add letters in the area and then at the end group them together. This was also like a recap of what you did.

Lesson 9

Reflection: This was a simple lesson. All we had to do was drag letters and numbers in their spot. Very simple and not too hard.

Lesson 10

Reflection: This was quite a difficult lesson. This put all your skills to test. In this, you would have to put layer son shape to make the final result. It was quite difficult because you had to change the size very specifically and then you have to put in the correct spot otherwise it would not turn out right and the chess pawn would turn out wrong. You had to really pay attention to all the details and instructions and you can't miss even one.

Design Situation

The UAE Nurses Association claims that one of the most difficult parts of their job is dealing with small children who have a fear of needles.  Although the association has some tips and tricks like putting numbing cream to partially freeze the surface of the skin before injecting medicine, sometimes the anxiety levels of small children are so high that it is difficult to get them to hold still.  If only there was an easier way to administer medicine within the syringe.

My Syringe:

My Reflection:
This was a really easy syringe to make as we were supposed to just make something that was not going to frighten kids and I thought what better that something that looked like a penguin. This could make many kids happy and the nurse will not have things to worry about. I really hope this is OK for kids as they should be calmed down because the neurons in brains calm all of the body down if they were to see something that is calming.

Design Situation 2                                                                     17/10/16

My design situation is an iron man glove that shoots round-tip darts and has a laser. It can hold twenty darts for every refill. Kids, that love to play outdoors and with nerf guns will love this toy because you can make it customizable and it can look really cool. The cool part about this is that I do not need to have some big toy it can fit the hand really well. I remember that when I used to have the glove I was able to do nothing with it and it was just for the looks. I have asked my friends and they only found one that had lasers and so I think getting something like this glove would be a really cool idea.

Design Situation 3                                                                     17/10/16

My design situation is a storage system for stairs where you just need to push the storage and it would come out. I have seen this opportunity because people desperately need storage for shoes, clothes, books etc. I can make this possible because if I find someone with little storage they can get this fixed in their house. This idea should eliminate the disgusting storage you have to put in the house just for those things listed above. Also, this includes a Harry Potter style storage cupboard for all those toys that look nasty in the Living Room, Master Bedroom, Kids Bedroom.


Design Brief 2                                                                            24.10.16
Kids and teenagers into Nerf guns like things that are supposed to relate to Nerf guns because it appeals to them the best. I will design an iron man glove in TinkerCAD and maybe in AutoDesk. I think AutoDesk is as cool as TinkerCAD because we use it to design many things like cars, trucks, etc. I can make it better for older people because I can add more accessories to make it cooler. For example, I could use AutoRefill, Better sight and added lasers. I want to make it because whenever I see an iron man glove it is fake and is not good and it can not even shoot.

Design Brief 3                                                                           24.10.16

I am thinking of a staircase with storage that works really quite easily and can store as many items as you want. I am aiming this for the adults who have houses that look really dirty because then they can easily make it really cool and clean. I will design the Staircase on TinkerCAD but I would also like to try it on AutoDesk as well. I could expand my project by making a cool mechanism where there would be a box and this box will hold the amount of steps that and we could then press for example; 15 and the fifteenth stair will automatically open up. I want to make it because pretty much every house looks very dirty.


Peer Evaluation