Research and Sketches
When I was thinking about how I would create my mallet holder design I knew that the design had to follow a few of my requirements. These requirements being that one design would be be able to hold at least 3 mallets, would look aesthetically pleasing, and to be durable. The first step I decided to do was to look at what other people have done and how I could improve that design to make it more functional. When I looked at some of the mallet holders that other people made I found some problems with their designs. Those problems were that they did not hold multiple mallets and that the way the holder held the mallet took up unneeded space. Although a good common characteristic that I found about these holders were that they used 2 extruded pegs to hold a mallet. This led me to make my design with pegs that hold the mallets but the only difference would be that I would place the mallets in the other direction so that I can fit as many as possible in a small area. Here are some pictures below of my sketches on the mallets holder and other peoples mallet holder design that I used to see how I could make mine more efficient.
Mallet holder that is on the Market
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Makerbot and 3d printer
The print went really well and there was no warping. The only real problem that I ran into was that there was a lot of support structures that I needed to take off and if I just printed my design the other direction I would have not had to worry about so many structures.
Finished Mallet holder
The mallet holder is working and holds 3 mallets with ease. My first version is a success!
I Need to print 2 of these holders so that it holds the 6 total mallets.
What I learned in this unit
What I learned during this unit was how to find a problem with something and how to fix it. I did this by looking at what other people and how I can make it better for the requirements needed. Also, I learned the importance on what direction is best for printing a certain design. This was helpful for this unit so I could minimize print time and to help keep the print from warping. Too add on to that, this skill is also useful to minimize the amount of support structure while I am printing. This will result in saving plastic. In all what I learned in this during this unit will be useful in the real world whenever I want to make improvements on something and want to make it better or if I am using a 3D printer and I want to minimize the print time, warping, and plastic used.