Mark II
After printing out the Mark I, I decided for future models I would create holes in CAD, rather than drilling them in after the printing process (this would then save me time, so I can just directly glue the magnets in place), my first attempt didn’t go as I planned since the holes didn’t align very well so I decided to instead glue the pieces together this was when I discovered that the bowl made water (as well as other liquids) taste terrible, so I realised that the bowls with more for dry food and objects.
Also, the gaps between the bowl pieces and the magnets would’ve caused it to leak through.
Mark III
For the third prototype, I made sure I didn’t make the same mistake as last time, to prevent this I created long thin sticks in CAD to help align the holes on each piece (while moving the holes in the right place) with this new design, I wanted to improve the shape and structure by making it taller and closed in, instead of it being short and wide, and as I mentioned before I wanted to improve the use of magnets and strategically place the holes in CAD, I was very happy with the result comparred to the first two, so this meant with more magnets and holes, the more strong the bowls structure is.
Mark IV
The forth prototype model was pretty much the same as the last One, except I decided to experiment with a 3-D pen to add 3-D elements to the bowl this was an intention for my to have both a visual and textual aesthetic to it could be admired as both people who can see art in those who can feel art, the end result was ok, I do require more practice in controlling the pen and creating shapes and patterns, more then just branding it with a name.
Mark V
For the fifth prototype, i wanted to take a step further in the split feature by having split into four pieces.
I did this by using the same process I did in splitting the bowl into two by splitting them into corners, this was more tricky then the previous design when creating and aligning the new holes, When the design was printed, it was not what I was hoping for, the pieces weren’t even and not all the holes lined up, also I didn’t think the magnets would be strong enough to support all the pieces
I ended up abandoning this concept and decided to stick to the two bowl split since the design was better stronger and had a lot more opportunity since it was a bowl that could be split in half and be used as magnetic selves to attach to fridges as well as other magnetic surfaces.
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