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Digital craft 3rd year practice

Project 1: Cards

For this exercise, I’ve teamed up with 3 other students. Bart from the Teacher Training, Joep from Graphic Design and Mike from Autonomous. Together we’ve chose the following cards: “Clickbait or Listicles”, “Highlight a boring future that could result from” and “Use folded paper to create a physical model of this new thing”.

We went on the internet to Marktplaats and from there we used clickbaits to navigate through the internet. For instance, we saw a suspicious advert on Marktplaats. Once we clicked on this, we went to a different kind of web shop with ridiculous expensive products. From there we saw another advert which guided us to another site where we would find other adverts or articles which guided us to again another site etc.

We’ve made screenshots of our steps but unfortunately, we’ve lost a big part of it. However, we’ve made a short video with the remaining screenshots to show how annoying clickbaits are. During our presentation we showed this video and threw the printed screenshots to the audience, trying to let them ask themselves: Aren’t we already being guided by clickbaits through the internet? We should be careful when we encounter clickbaits.

Project 2: Cards

Shred, melt, print. That's what our machine would do. We were given the assignment to make the concept for a bio-machine. A machine which had something to do with bio, biological, biology, bio industry, whatever.

The concept we developed is a composed machine consisting of three actual machines. A "shredder", a "melter" and a 3d printer. The shredder is meant for shredding plastic waste, that shredded waste will be melted to a new 3d printer filament, this filament can be used to print again. So, in the end you’ll have three small DIY kits to recycle plastic and to provide yourself new useful tools.

For now we mainly focused on the shredder and did some research to the possibilities that, gives, with the goal to print a shredder from wasted plastic which will create a loop again. We’ve discovered that there are different types of plastic: PET, HDPE, PVC, LDPE, PP, PS, MIX. We’ve also found a schedule with the melting temperatures of these types. However, this shredder is originally designed for PET (polyethylene terephthalate).

We’ve made this wooden prototype specially to analyse its size. We’ve discovered that a part of the handle is too big. Because of this, we couldn’t rotate it, and the machine did not work.