Day 4 Recap

Sadly, today was our last day with the FlashForge Finder 3D printers. A few of us were able to print out our personalized keychains. The Minecraft party glasses were too big for the Finder's build size, so we opted to print a keychain instead.

We also re-watched the Marcel the Shell videos and paused it when we saw familiar, everyday objects to compare his height. Our best guess is that Marcel is somewhere between 15-18mm tall. This helped us to determine how big our designs should be. Most campers paired up to design something that would be useful and helpful to Marcel. We designed a couple of houses, a bicycle, and a car. Unfortunately, TinkerCAD had some hiccups and a few people lost their designs and had to start over again. This didn't dampen our spirits, though! We started over and tried again and will continue tomorrow with our designs for Marcel. Hopefully we can get the printers back later in camp and print out our creations for Marcel.

Some of the challenges campers noted were:

• TinkerCAD glitching and losing work
• Moving objects up and down on the workplane - this required lots of precision!
• Duplicating objects - being aware that the duplicate was right on top of the original
• Navigating and getting just the right view is tricky!

We were all in agreement, though - 3D Design is lots of fun and we wish we had more time!