TinkerCad Academy #12: Using TinkerCAD Circuit Assemblies
TinkerCAD Academy
Part 12: Using TinkerCAD Circuit Assemblies
Objectives:
Understand how to use TinkerCAD’s premade circuit assemblies to introduce electronics into a 3D model.
See how a model would function in the real world when electronics are integrated.
Design your own 3D model with integrated circuit and be able to describe its function.
Video Walk-through of Lesson
Walking Robot Using TinkerCAD
Watch the video below and see how a 3D design can be created with circuit assemblies in TinkerCAD and also what that design would then look like when brought into reality.
Practice
Go through the lessons below and stop when it requires you to 3D print or gather real world components
Apply Your New Knowledge
Now that you have gone through the practice and seen how these assemblies can introduce dynamic effects to a 3D model take some time to create your own 3D model that integrate ones of these circuit assemblies and then describe what it would do if it was brought to reality.
Documentation
Download the Screencastify Video tool extension to your browser. Document your Autodesk TinkerCAD challenges by recording a short video of yourself showing off a creation! Save your journal’s URL for your own reference, or SHARE your video on Latino STEM Alliance’s Facebook page or @latinostem on Twitter to show us and your fellow students and community how your work with TinkerCAD has been going!
Never forget your hotkeys!
Further Resources:
Autodesk - Creators of TinkerCAD, Fusion 360, AutoCAD, Revit, Maya and many more.
TinkerCAD - Beginner Friendly 3D modelling, Electrical Simulations and Programming with Codeblocks they also have two great posters that can be printer for classroom use found here and here
Microsoft MakeCode - A similar block style programming language that skillset is shared with TinkerCAD Codeblocks