For this project I chose to show my my childhood of making Rube Goldberg machines have played a role in shaping me as an engineer. Through playing with my hands and making assemblies of subassemblies that all have to work together to preform a simple task i learned about my love for making and designing. this love slowly turned into more and more of an engineering love as it switched from playing with blocks, to playing with the wood tools I begged for for Christmas, to playing with CAD and 3D printing.
Hi! I really liked your story behind this concept! My suggestion for you would be to have a base all the pieces are mounted to to ensure they are all always where they should be for them to make sense
This piece is so fun, you could also think about making it functional, using real string and actual blades on the scissors and have it work in real life possibly.
Kind of a crazy idea, but make a 3D model of yourself for the little dude. Maybe like a bobble head.
Not sure if you already intended this, but it would be rad if you actually made it into a working Rube Goldberg. If you attached the tip of the hammer’s handle to the baseplate and leave the rest unsupported, you could hold the hammer in place by the rod sticking up from it. When the scissors are closed around the rod (scissors would be printed in two parts so they could open and close), it would let go of the pole and cause the hammer to swing down and hit the figure.
Hi Jakob! I’m curious to see where you’re going with this! I think it would be cool to have articulating pieces. the pieces might need to be printed on the bed separately, but I think it would be worth it to have something mechanical.