For my altered toy project I decided to do a toy car. I made the design in Tinkercad and then 3D printed it with PLA in the Makerspace. I decided to use black acrylic paint for the base of the car and gray acrylic paint for the car wheels . This was one of my…

For my altered toys project, I decided to recreate Barbie clothes with a twist. Instead of using the soft and flexible fabric that is normally used for clothes, I used hard and structured PLA filament. I think this provides a nice contrast to the original toy. I also wanted my piece to represent the fashion…

For my altered toys project, I tried to design a toy concept that could’ve been seen as a Skylander when the games were going on. I sculpted the creature in zBrush, iterating on a sea monster design I had sketched out. I also tried adding the base that a water Skylander is usually seen on…

Here’s my finished toy! I created Jangle, a gravity-defining take on Jenga. I achieved this effect by manipulating the infill of one side of each block to make the blocks unbalanced. Unfortunately, the surface finish of these pieces were not as smooth as I would have liked them to be due to over extrusion, especially…

For this project I wanted to put a twist on the sandbox I had as a kid. I used to have a turtle shaped sand box with a removable shell lid. When I would play in the sand box I would often leave toys like legos, barbies, transformers, etc. in it. Sometimes these toys would…

I redesigned a significant toy from my childhood, Thomas the Tank Engine, by making him into a tank. This required making a tank in Fusion and then adding an organic face with Meshmixer. Once printed in white, I then added acrylic paint to match the color of the original toy. This design has a play…

I had a lot of issues with the print and it did not come out the greatest, but it works and I am still happy with it. The print warped a bit, and I could not attain the level of detail because it was too big to fit on the ultimakers. Thus it is probably…

For the altered toys project, I redesigned the Game of Life car pieces. One of my favorite boardgames growing up was Game of Life and that inspired ideas for my project. I modeled and 3D printed boats in replacement of the cars. Similarly to the actual boardgame, there are 6 spots for the people pieces….

Here is my final 3D print. It’s a turtle with flames for legs. I used TinkerCAD for the design and printed it at the Makerspace.