Spoon Holder

Hi! My name is Harshita Vohra, and I am excited to share my project with you! I am in Mr.Fung's IED class at Irvington High School, working on a side project, just like previous students did.

This Epic Design Challenge focuses on making everyone feel like they belong. Sometimes, children and even adults face difficulties with the disabilities they have, often making them feel less included in their environment. That is why I created this 3D-printed Spoon Holder! Its versatile design will help improve motor skills, making meal times much easier for folks with these problems.

In this project guide, I will walk you through all of the steps and supplies needed for this. It may seem tricky, but it is much easier than you think it is.

1. Fusion 360
2. Mini Prusa Printer (Organic Tree Support)
3. PLA Filament
4. Prusa Slicer
5. Plastic Spoon
6. Adhesive Patches

Open the Fusion 360 App and make a new sketch on the Front Face. Sketch a rectangle 30 mm in width and 45 mm in width and then round the corners with the filet tool to about 5 mm for each of the four corners.

Once the first sketch is done, extrude the profile about 80 mm in each direction. Make sure to select the direction to be Two Sides so that each side as an equal extrude on both sides. The direction can be changed to be Symmetric as well with the same 80 mm dimension.

Start a new sketch on the front face of the extruded profile. Make a center rectangle coincident to two midpoints added to two sides of the original profile. Horizontally and vertically constrain it to the center. Dimension the rectangle is be 8 mm in length and 6.5 mm in width then round the corners with a 1 mm filet. Finish the sketch.

Extrude this profile -100 mm to make a slot for the spoon. This can vary in length based on how long your spoon is. Make sure the operation is set to cut and not join.

Highlight the entire body and add a 3 mm filet. There should be a total of about 19 faces when doing this step.

Start a new sketch on the top face. Add circles in the form of braille letters to say "Spoon Holder". Attached is the image of how the braille letters should look like. Make the the circles 3.5 in diameter and add an equal constraint to all of them. Then add the fix/unfix constraint to make sure they don't move from this position.

Finish the sketch and extrude it 2 mm upwards then add a 1.75 mm filet to all of the letters. This way they look more like braille rather than cylinders.

Make a new sketch on the front face one again. Use the text box tool to make it as long as the spoon holder's top profile. Add the words "Spoon Holder". The font used for this is Arial Black that is bolded and has a height of 10 mm. Additionally, move the text into the middle. Then, finish the sketch.

Highlight over the sketch and extrude it upwards 2 mm.

By following all of these steps, your Spoon Holder should look something like this. Now you are ready to print and can export the project as an STL file!

Open Prusa Slicer and import the STL file of the Spoon Holder.