Week 17:

 Wild Card Week

Task

I have this week designed, created and employed a food drawing machine, my wild card week is related to the following objectives:

  • Designing through iterations - Trial'n'error resulting in revisions
  • Digital fabrication of parts.
  • Drawing with eatables on eatables with some vertical extension

Design Requirements

I want to create a design, that is able to:

  • Draw with powdered eatables (ie. flour, sucker).
  • Draw on something with vertical extension.

Inspiration

Departing from a Wish to Make Bread Art

Initial Sketching

Early 2D Visualisation

Early 3D Visualisation

Computer Assisted Design

Creating Gears Using Gear Generator

Importing Gears to Inkscape

Sketching First Batch of Parts

Drawing Slices in Incscape

Producing Parts

Lasercutting Slices for the Parts

Glueing Slices to Parts

Testing Gears

Trying to reduce Friction by Adding Tape

Mounting Screws as Pivot Points

Flow from Powder Container

Creating the Powder Container

Testing angle for sucker flow

Testing Tin Foil Coating

Testing required angle for sucker flow

Testing Flow from Sucker Container

Testing Ability to Draw with Sucker Drawing

Testing Flow from Sucker Container

Identifying Need for Vertical Displacement

Relationship between Horizontal & Vertical Movement

Sketching a Z-stage Solution

Sketching Parts for the Z-stage

Z-stage Wedge

Sanded Inside Wedge to Reduce Friction

Assembling Z-stage

Testing Z-stage Functionality

Inside view of Z-stage Functionality

Assembling and Testing

Layout Before Assembling

First Assembling

Encountering Too much friction in Z-axis

Sucker Printing

More Sucker Printing

First Attempt in Spirographing with Sucker

Spirographing with more Sucker

Spirographing with even more Sucker

Spirographing with a Thinner Layer of Sucker

Design Files

My design should be seen as an early mockup to test the concept. I were to continue my work with the Breaddrawer in layers of cardboard/wood/acrylic - I would make a 3D drawing in software like Fusion 360 and the slice it using the "Slicer"-addon.

This lead to a disclaimer about my designfiles listed below - they served their purpose for the iterative ideation towards a mockup they are thus not intended to be used for reproduction.