My genius hour project is designing a 3d cart that is foot powered for now well at least till I can get it motorized. The reason I chose this project is cause I want to get a feel for 3d building and in the end I decided to keep it.
During round one I researched the price and the materials that I would need, 2, I designed the outer shell. sorry but pictures are not available due to some usb issues and google images (I tried google drive for the cart design no dice). :( over the months of november (2015) through december (2015) I was looking at designs and costs. the rest was spent designing. In round 2 I’ll put the machine together and over the years I might end up refining the design to be more cost effective and less costly. And if anyone is wondering I did get help from my dad (outside of school).
The end goal is to get a working foot powered cart with brakes to stop it but that is costly so I’m still trying to get the funds for brakes so it might not have brakes but it might have them or not it depends on if I can get the funds so who knows not me.
I have had many fails and sucess so here they are my 1st success was getting sketchup to work,2 getting my skills up, and 3 designing the thing. My falis are getting frustrated at the smallest detail,2 not doing the suspension first,3 not enough funds,and 4 getting the hardware. I’m slightly unhappy about how it came out and would do the suspension first if I did this again, and do some more calculations. But otherwise not much.
For the next round I think I’ll build the cart’s suspension and build the cart or I may design a my dream house floor plan. I don’t know what I’ll do I may do a or b who knows.
During round one I researched the price and the materials that I would need, 2, I designed the outer shell. sorry but pictures are not available due to some usb issues and google images (I tried google drive for the cart design no dice). :( over the months of november (2015) through december (2015) I was looking at designs and costs. the rest was spent designing. In round 2 I’ll put the machine together and over the years I might end up refining the design to be more cost effective and less costly. And if anyone is wondering I did get help from my dad (outside of school).
The end goal is to get a working foot powered cart with brakes to stop it but that is costly so I’m still trying to get the funds for brakes so it might not have brakes but it might have them or not it depends on if I can get the funds so who knows not me.
I have had many fails and sucess so here they are my 1st success was getting sketchup to work,2 getting my skills up, and 3 designing the thing. My falis are getting frustrated at the smallest detail,2 not doing the suspension first,3 not enough funds,and 4 getting the hardware. I’m slightly unhappy about how it came out and would do the suspension first if I did this again, and do some more calculations. But otherwise not much.
For the next round I think I’ll build the cart’s suspension and build the cart or I may design a my dream house floor plan. I don’t know what I’ll do I may do a or b who knows.