STEM Lesson for Center/Excessive College: Toy Robotic Product Design

MatterHackers Training ambassador and head of expertise at BIS Washington, David Williams, leads a workshop in 3D design utilizing TinkerCad, featured on the ISTE21Live EdTech convention. David guides lecturers by way of a step-by-step lesson 3D modeling customized robots that college students can design after which fabricate with 3D printing within the classroom.

Create a free TinkerCAD account or use MatterControl to emulate the steps and follow making your personal robotic earlier than sharing with college students. As soon as your design is full, study how one can implement a wide range of bodily, software program and {hardware} methods to make your concept a actuality and take a look at David’s instance robots created by college students which have been printed on an Ultimaker 3D printer utilizing MH Construct Sequence PLA.

That is an introductory lesson supposed to show the essential fundamentals of 3D design software program all applied inside a single mannequin, together with the next key ideas:

• Making fundamental shapes akin to cubes and cylinders
• Enhancing shapes by scaling, rotating, adjusting the variety of sides, and including rounded corners
• Creating unfavorable/hole house (aka subtractions)
• Producing a customized 3D form from a 2D drawing
• Grouping and mixing objects

Lastly, discover ways to remodel your college students’ 3D printed toys into real-life merchandise by implementing the Mayku Vacuum Former, as demonstrated by David on the finish of the lesson. 

Observe together with the video tutorial beneath for an simply adaptable lesson into your STEAM curriculum that may interact college students in studying product design with enjoyable digital manufacturing methods.

[To see more of the inspiring educational projects, live speaking sessions, and reviews of 3D printing tools and resources created by David Williams as a featured MatterHackers Education Ambassador, visit his collection page on the MatterHackers website here.]