Gear Toss (Week of 4/27)
- vvaldezmelgar
- May 1
- 3 min read
Hello All! I hope everyone had a nice week, as this was our week back from April break. Some progress was made on the gears and I also started work on a project for the NTHS in our school. The clock is on track for being done before the end of May but it will be cutting it close. Let's dive into the week!
First day back from break on Monday, I got to work fixing the gear models that broke last time, due to me sizing them up. I didn't take long and I was able to actually 3d print a few! I'm also changing up a few with the winding gears and key. I'm changing it to a crank or lever as its more easily to attach it to the winding gear and instead of having the winding gears face out and build from there, I'm placing them on inside walls of the gears box instead of having just one of them on the wall. It will allow me a bit more space within the box and will just be easier to build the rest of the gears from there. I worked on fixing and resizing the box while the first batch of gears were printing but we had gym so I wasn't able to fully print them all out on Monday.
Tuesday, I was able to finish printing the gears but I realized that the spurs and axles didn't fit the gears. It was just a little too big for the holes, So I had to go back and make all of the holes a tiny bit bigger so that they would fit in their respective gears. I wasn't able to reprint the gears as other people were using the 3d printer, so I used this time to start sketching out a project for the NTHS. They're holding a shop carnival in the upcoming weeks so they wanted a little game from each shop. I decided to make a ring toss game as it fits the theme and we could incorporate some circuity into the game. As of now, I've only looked a few reference photos to get an idea of what I want it to look like and what to incorporate in the game. I think it'll be cool if the bottles light up when a ring goes round it and maybe plays some sound too but I'm not sure. I'm not going to start on that project until I feel like the clock is in a good position, or I may work on it in-between prints of the clock stuff.
On Wednesday and Thursday, it was more of the same. I finally finished the box and finished its size and I decided to laser cut most of the gears, as I wouldn't need to wait for the 3d printer to be open to test the gears and double checking the thickness, we can some wood that would work. I can't laser cut all of the gears as there's some special gears that require the 3d printer. I also need to 3d print all of the spurs and axles as it isn't possible on the laser cutter. I managed to get the first set of gears cutted in 1/4 wood but that took a while and I wasn't able to cut out the second set that needed to be cut in 1/8 wood. I plan on getting all the gears and maybe the box cutted out by the end of Friday, I also plan to getting the box set up by the end of Friday as well.
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