2 credits, 44 hours

My ongoing goals are to add credibility to my resume for future work as an employee or in my personal business to continue to teach and create educational displays and interactive experiences for all ages

Section 1: Wishlist for the quarter

1. Use the big welding robot (least accessible)
2. Use the chocolate printer (highly accessible)
3. Use the injection molder (med accessible, analog machine might be available)
4. Use the SLS machine(s) (highly accessible)
5. Print in castable resin (med accessible, high detail resin needs to be bought)
6. Enter at least 1 instructables or printables contest (highly accessible)
7. Build Fusion360 skills
8. Build familiarity with lab printers
9. Build familiarity with 3D scanners
10. Work with recycled materials, whether sourced externally or from within the department

Section 2: Secondary skills, ongoing basis

1. Build professional network
2. Build relevant business skills
3. Build relevant employability skills
4. Get professional certifications
5. Get PLA credit for past work
6. Build prototyping workflow skills from development to production
7. Develop my home capacity to produce work for my business and personal interests

Project Ideas

Gridfinity Toolchest (assigned)

1. Meets goals from section 1.7 and 1.8
2. Contributes to shop

Gridfinity Mini: make small-section gridfinity organizers for miniature toolchest to hold my collection of functional miniature tools

1. Meets goals from section 1.7 and 1.8
2. Meets goals from section 2.6 and 2.7
3. Is cute

Bonne Maman Mini Cups: design and print chocolate shells styled after the mini jam jars Bonne Maman sells in their advent calendar, designed to be filled with these jam samples

1. Meets goals from sections 1.2, 1.7, and 1.8
2. Potential for goal 1.9
3. Meets goal for section 2.6
4. Is cute

Recycling Workflow Dev: Learn to use plastic shredder, injection molder, and injection mold tooling to create a system for recycling 3D printer waste directly into widgets (pref something useful like fidget toys that can be distributed by the disability resources office)

1. Meets goals from sections 1.3, possible 1.4 (to create tooling), possible 1.5 (could print in clearcast to aluminum cast tooling?), poss 1.7 (if need to design tooling), 1.8 (if need to create tooling), 1.10
2. Meets goals from section 2.6
3. Potential outreach/educational opportunity for department

Bottle Filament printer: build a machine for turning PET bottles into filament for 3d printing and print with it, either for the department or for home use

1. Meets goals for sections 1.4, 1.8, and 1.10
2. Meets goals for sections 2.6 and 2.7
3. Potential application for educational display for department/as an outreach tool

3D printed and Cast Jewelry: design, print, and cast (at home using lost wax method) a custom ring

1. Meets goals for sections 1.5, 1.7, and 1.8
2. Meets goals for sections 2.3, 2.6, and 2.7

Home 3d Scanning with Kinect: Use a Kinect scanner from an xbox360 to develop and test a 3D scanning setup at home, including producing a fully-printed object from a scan

1. Meets goals from sections 1.7, 1.9
2. Meets goals from sections 2.6 and 2.7
3. Already have experience with the process from past workplaces

Made to Order Design: create a design based on the parameters of specific challenges from Instructables, Printables, or other contest sites

1. Meets goals of section 1.6 and potentially others, depending on nature of challenge