Class today could only be described as a roller coaster for me. I was so excited to hear that we were recreating a Lego brick out of cardboard. This assignment was a segway into our next assignment where we will actually 3D print a Lego brick. The focus of this assignment was to showcase the inner workings of a 3D printer. How it prints horizontally instead of vertically, creating models of all kinds by thousands of tiny layers. I didn’t exactly realize that at first being so caught up in the moment of cutting cardboard. See I was thinking big, I missed when she said that were going to scale, so I wanted the biggest Lego brick in the class. I actually got pretty far and started the circles when Professor Painter walked over and asked where all my layers are. I was devastated to see my big brick rendered useless in an instant. But that is what I get for getting too excited over building a Lego. What I learned from this assignment was how 3D printers work, how they make virtually anything by going left and right.
