plywood

What we are using to make our designs is plywood. Plywood is made entirely of plies and these plies are pushed together to make one board of timber. The layers of grains are placed at rige tht angles to each other.
plywood is an extremely sof type of timber and it's shape can be easily alltered with sandpaper.

My final product

My final design

my design

This is my clocks design

Blog 12

Today I worked on my safety tests while people hot their clock part, where the hands are connected, fitted into their clocks. It was really frustrating doing these tests because I kept having to re-do them and it got on my nerves. By the end of the lesson I had accomplished nothing not even the test I had been working on, which was the van saw. It was very unproductive.

Blog 11

Today I started working on my evaluation I ,an aged to finish roughly but I am still planning on editing it. It was great because I was one of the few people who actually finished. We got to watch a more advanced design futures group work on something. We were also given strict instructions to be absolutely silent so that we could concentrate and the class could concentrate.

Blog 10

Today I got my design vacuume formed! I was so exited when Mr Andrews told me that I could start vacuum forming. I grabbed a hot glue gut and started to hot glue but there was one problem. For some reason my hot glue gun was not working. I tried turning it on and off I tried plugging it in to the second plug but it just wasn't working! I predict that either the hot glue gun was broken or there was something wrong with the plugs above our table. Eventually I got my second and third layers glued on with another tables glue gun. It was so exiting watching my clock being vacume formed and seeing the clear plastic fall over it! I found out also that my clock can be made again easily because non of the parts in my clock fell off!

Blog 4

Today was not very productive. Because so many people still have not finished their on guard training we still haven't been able to get into the workshop! It is really frustrating! Mr Andrews told the people who have not finished the essential on guard training to get a wriggle on. He says that if we do not get into the workshop soon we will not finish our clocks! I really do not want that to happen!

Blog 3

Today people in the class that could not do on guard finished it while everyone else who finished continued in their clocks. I had a great idea today and I decided to do an imagine clock! I was really exited in class because Mr Andrews told me that this design was possible! Mr Andrews also showed us how to make layers and used a clock from a previous year or term and showed us the layers in it. He also explained that parts of your different layers could not hang over your first layer or they would break off and ruin the clock.

Blog 2

Today we were in the computer lab again. Today we started on our designs. I have made a few my first design is a lady bird clock, sort of like the lady bird watched that pop open when you push their wings out, but the wings will not pop out they will just sit there. My second design is a mermaid clock. I have decided on the ladybird clock because it is easy to make and it has a good design.

Blog 1

Our first lesson of DF was great we got introduced to the computer labs which I had never seen before and we got to meet our new DF teacher Mr Andrews. All lesson we talked about different designs and whether they are good designs or not. We were given three designs. The iPod classic the fountain pen and an old but reliable sewing machine. We came to the conclusion that all the designs were reliable in different ways. The iPod is reliable because it is made well and is simple and can store the most songs out of all the iPods that are made, the pen is reliable because it is a simple looking design and works efficiently and the sewing machine I reliable because it does not break easily.

Sustainability in our designs

If our designs have sustainability then our clocks will turn out to be a success.
Clocks with sustainability would be clocks with a realistic design that fits on the vacume former. Clocks with a mold that can be reused over and and over again without parts falling off in the process. Clock designs that do not fall apart in the vacume former. And clocks that do not have parts hanging over their first layer.

Steps to vacume forming with thermoplastic

Step one You must have something prepared for your mold to be based on. Make sure it has all the necessary layers that it needs.

Step two: Make sure your final design has no parts hanging over the edge of your first layer or it will ruin your design. When the thermoplastic molds over your design the parts that are hanging over will sag down or melt off.

Step three:(Remember to warm the vacume former for about 7-10 minutes before starting this.

Step three Put your thermoplastic in the clamp position ,which is placed higher that the spot where your mold goes, and heat it for about one minute.

Step four: Place your design in the center point of your vacume former below the thermoplastic.

Step five pull the thermoplastic down over your design.

Step six: pump out the lever to get the thermoplastic to set on your design.

Step seven: let your design cool for a few minutes.

Step eight Pop out your design from the thermoplastic mold.

Step nine if necessary cut out your mold.

Polystyrene

Polystyrene is a plastic with a high density. It is often shaped to fit tightly around objects and to get this type of shape you must use heat and force. This method of packaging is called blister packaging and that is one things that polystyrene is used for.