Nigora is creating

 Due to my personal health issues and my packed scheduling, I will have to update this post once I finally get to my appointment with a prusa mini! Here are my final renders of my design on a chess board, as well as in a rendered view showing its full form! I chose to go for the smaller size of boxes making the squares on 1.95 inches by 1.95 inches. Whish me luck on the 3D printing, may I or others NOT break a printer! 3D Print

When I first got started on this project I had decided to make a whimsical themed set. I first thought about how a chess board is a king's court. And then it was to figure out the most pretentious thing about royalty I could think of. This led to my thought on excessive and useless tableware! 5 forks, 12 spoons, 15 knives, you name it, so I came up with initial selections based on the actual uses of each piece on a chess board.  The king would be a :"fish fork" which is just a fork with 2 pikes instead of 3 or 4. Useless, just like the king in the game.  The queen would be a steak knife as she cuts through the board like crazy. The knight does some strange movements in the game making it a weird utensil, I chose the spork. The bishop is a bit useless and it used more as a last resort, thus a desert spoon works well as it is used at the end of a meal only. The rook is more useful, making it a great fit as a dinner spoon. The pawns always go first, thus I felt the mini fork...

The final renders are here! This project was a long one and one where I had many outside factors that made it more challenging then it needed to be. From getting sick to my own program and computer glitching, I am happy to say that the many crises I had were overcome in the end! This water bottle is definitely one I can confidently donate to goodwill now that I have reverse engineered its components and rebuilt it in Rhino!  I still have much to learn and many things I most likely forgot, but this milestone was one well worked for and I am ready to move on to the next one!  Wish me luck!  

 Hello, I am coming at you late as I have been sick this week. I was sick before as well recently, however what I got this time was much worse. It cycled through my family and somehow I ended up as the last one to get the flu and am now under the weather and behind on all of my school work, including this project. The only thing I was able to do was connect the bottom halves of the bottle before I was too sick to get out of bed. Luckily for me, reading week will be where I can work work work on this project and get it done! I made sure to get all of my other classes things done so that I can focus on this and really prepare a solid and well crafted reverse engineered project.  Wish me luck once again, I hope everyone stays healthy in this snowy weather as well!

 For my engraving I chose to use the provided birch wood that was set aside in the io lab for the classes! I felt that the light tone of the wood would really help show the different layers of my design in a more clear and beautiful way!  These are the results: The only problem I have with this is the little cracks as well as the uneven tone of the black. However on that same note, I actually think those things give my design character! Not only that, nut these imperfections match the Tajik embroidery style I emulated and bring out the nostalgia for me of the many copious amounts of imperfect yet beautiful pieces of hand done decor I have seen at home and from many family friends from Tajikistan as well!  Original Engraving I think this project was a success and I am proud of how well my design translated through the wood engraving!

  For my first update I decided to tackle the bottom lid and the bottle itself. I was unable to finish the bottle but the bottom lid came to become very polished! The lid: The bottom lid has an inner metal cylinder in it that I thought would give me problems, but my caliper fit perfectly into it so I was able to get all the measurements.  The inner cylinder. Final without spiral for the twist. The bottle: The bottle is tricky for me. So While I was able to create the 3 components of the top small opening, the body and the bottom opening, putting them together was something I couldn't figure out how to do. The bottle has a big curve connecting the top opening and a more subtle one on the bottom. I have no clue where to start to measure or how to create said connecting curves.  Things I will need to make still: - the textured rubber - The top lid -The rubber band - the spirals on the inside and outside - the curves connecting the body of the bottle togeter