3D Modeling and Printing M-Term 2026

 Today, we received a visit from an elementary class from the Post Oak Bellaire campus. Max showed them pieces from his capstone project, which is making replacement parts for a boombox. He showed them how our printers work, and printed a small boat for the kids. For the rest of the day, we spent time working on our capstone projects. We didn't have any lessons, which made it a pretty chill focus day.

Tuesday was quite uneventful. We began our day with a progress check, and all shared the improvements and revisions we have made since yesterday. After that, we just worked on our designs and printed when needed. After lunch, we had a quick chat about the morning and then got right back to work and worked all the way through the end of the day. Below are some pictures of what I am designing. I am designing a chessboard(as said in the day 6 blog), but I have changed the theme of the chessboard from my favorite video game to flora. The idea I have for it is different types of plants or flowers in larger or smaller sizes to signify which piece is which. Below are some screenshots of the previous design that I scrapped in favor of this. 

 At the start of today, the group went around the table and shared their designs, and updated the group and Mr. Beradino on the overall progress towards completing the design iteration and printing process. After we had finished that, Mr. Beradino taught us how to encode color into our designs, without having to painstakingly draw over each pixel in Bambu Studio. By then, we were at around 10am, and took our break. Once our break ended, we all worked on our projects until lunch. I am designing a chessboard themed around my favorite characters in a video game called VALORANT(yes, it is officially branded in all caps). We began the afternoon with a lesson from John/Tony N. about how to use Blender! We spent the rest of the day working on our personal projects and capstones. As the day came to a close, we set up some prints to run overnight and all headed out!

 Today, our class showed off their phone addons in the morning, and someone's product would be passed around, and we would give feedback. After lunch, we would fly our planes on the field to see who went the furthest. Elyza would end up winning, but by using a boomerang, so the person who won via using A plan would be Avi. After the plane competition, we went back to class and continued working. The work I focused on was making charms of nations and their shapes by tracing an image of the nation.                                                       A product a student made called the phone coffin     My many failed prints of a phone cover Me executing my idea of tracing nations starting with Eretria A student working on there Capstone 

     Today, we began work on our cell phone accessories. Our assignment is to create an accessory for our phones that uses hinges in some way, such as a poseable stand or a closeable case. We learned how to make hinges in Fusion yesterday, and today was focused on applying that knowledge in our designs.      Students have also begun brainstorming and entering the early design stage for our capstone projects for the term. For our capstone projects, each student thinks of something they want to make that has complexity in its design, such as mechanical elements or fine details. We will be devoting a lot of time next week to working on these projects.     Here are some photos from today!

Today, our class continued working on our planes for the 'competition' that we're going to do tomorrow morning. Mr. Beradino also introduces us to a third project, where we can do anything as long as it is a) for a phone, and b) has a joint (i.e., hinges). To help prepare us for this, he taught us how to make hinges for our project!     Personally, I am going to make a phone/card/pen holder that attaches to the leg of my wheelchair! I'm very excited about this, especially because everything currently on the market is so bulky, or doesn't work for someone like me.               Something that I thought was really cool was that Mr. Beradino let me use a soldering iron to help stabilise the pieces of my plane through soldering excess filament onto the lines where the body and wings connected. Picture from the lesson on how to make a hinge. How I used the soldering iron to stabilise my plane My phone holder (- the hinge)

Welcome to our 3D Printing and Modeling M-Term! This course is led by Mr. Beradino, and we will be diving deep into the world of 3D printing with Bambu Studio and 3D modeling with Fusion 360 and Blender. Today we worked on modeling pencil  holders in Fusion 360 using basic techniques such as shape building and combining objects. We also learned how to use Bambo Studio software with the printers to print out these objects. Here are some photos of students working:

  Today we worked on our planes more. The students got much better at modeling the planes. Some students created more planes, and some worked on their old ones. The printers had a bunch of malfunctions for a single person; however, they worked for everyone else. We plan to test our planes tomorrow at lunch, and the winner will get a prize. This is a plane a student is working on This was the plane that failed to print Some photos of our students.