Candice's 3D Design

In my midterm I set up a goal to build a hamster house using 3D printing and crafting skill. I love to pet hamster because they are so cute and tiny. My inspiration came from LEGO and other toys that I love to build since my childhood. The original thought of making this was just that my hamster cage at home was very dull and small because I prefer not to buy the expensive one. As I would feel the same success as I would do for my other handcrafts like cross-stitching, I decided to make one with my own design in the spirit of my 3D design course. Although my whole set of house never finished due to missing part, my passion will continue once all finals are done so I can have time to finish the handmade items.

The biggest accomplishment I have in this project is the feeling of assessing my design and make improvement. Good changes are essential in very process of growing up. So as my design power. Especially through learning 3D printing technology, the possibilities is more and I can dream bigger. This is very important to me because I feel interested along the reading and lecture in class. I only can do things well and happily with passion when I have interests in them. Considering most of the college required courses aren’t in my interest, this is vital to my goal in college.

The community of hamster lovers has been enlarged these days when people have easier access to share their cute pets to other, that is, in the internet. I regularly post picture or video of my hamsters and their inhabitant on Facebook. I also share them to my friend as some of them are also hamster lovers. The whole environment for building house is small due to limited resources but I hope my project can bring some insights to my friend and every viewers online.

Next thing I will do is to finish my project and take some nice pictures then I will share it online and to my friend using my phone. After this project, I have been thinking about making other themes of hamster houses such as modern apartment and farm life style and try to show them to hamster lovers.

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