PRACTICAL 3: Cardboard Joinery & Unicorn Assembly

 8/07/2021 

In week 12, we attended our 3rd practical for CP5096. We were tasked to create a visual board showing a minimum of 8 ways to join carboards together. There were already 6 types of joinery given thus, we needed to find 2 other joinery to be included in our board. 

Before creating our cardboard joinery board, we were once again reminded of the safety precautions needed in the FabLab. We also learnt the correct techniques to cut cardboard boxes by watching a YouTube video. We finally got to work!! ✌

We wore gloves to prevent any possible injuries that may happen while using the pen knives. It was really easy to cut the cardboard into desired shapes for constructing when using the proper cutting technique. However, we did not know the actual dimensions of the cardboard in each joinery and decided to just eyeball the measurements so as long that each of them works the way it should . 

Once we were done constructing all of our various joineries, we used hot glue gun as well as UHU glue to join it all together on the board. We placed them in neat arrangements and wrote the names of each joinery before sticking them down permanently. 

                                                                         

                                     

Above, is the group with our finished joinery board! 😍
The 6 main joineries were: slots, tabs & slots, gussets, flange, tabs , score & bend. 

We added the L brace, fastener and T-joint as part of our joinery board. Our group had chosen the fastener as well as the T joint to be our favorite joineries from the joinery board as the fastener is a device that mechanically joins or affixes 2 or more objects together which can be commonly used to make toys. The T joint is one of our favorites too as it acts as an interlock and would not fall apart when being tilted or flipped a 180 degrees. 

Once our group has finished our cardboard joinery as well as discuss on our favorite joinery, we started doing our housekeeping duties. We returned all items used to where we found them and cleaned up excess glue found on the nozzle of the hot glue gun and ensure it has cooled down before placing it back into the box while Jia Min swept the floor as there were cardboard debris on the floor from the cutting that we had done earlier. ✂

To wrap up the session, we did a mini presentation to the class on our cardboard joinery and told them the uses as well as our favorite joinery🎉

TAKE HOME ASSIGNMENT!! 🦄(assembling The Winged Unicorn) 

To test our knowledge and skills learnt from this weeks practical of cardboard joinery, we were tasked to assemble a cardboard unicorn and was tasked to find a way to make their wings flap using rubber bands or springs. We were also tasked to sketch the mechanism to automate the wing flapping of our unicorn. Lets get started on our Unicorn assembling adventure! 🙌

PART 1: Assembling the Unicorn 

Firstly, we took out all the parts from the cardboard and lay it out neatly so that all parts are easily accessible. 

We then started on the head and the body of the unicorn as it was the major part of our cardboard assembling task. 

We then joined the body , head as well as the tail and it finally is looking a lot like a unicorn now ! 😝

Upon the addition of the wings, IT FINALLY LOOKS LIKE A UNICORN NOW!! YAY 🥳

PART 2: Making the wings flap using rubber bands 

PART 3: Sketching the mechanism for wing flapping 

HERE ARE OUR BEAUTIFUL UNICORNS <3

Jia Min's Unicorn 

Ji Hyun's Unicorn 

Aqilah's Unicorn