Tech 7: Building My Cardboard Box

After we sketched everything out and showed it to Ms. Giroux, we were supposed to measure out all the pieces onto cardboard. I ran into some difficulties because the cardboard was a bit bent and it was hard to draw straight with a ruler. After I had finished I started on sawing out the pieces so that we would assemble them. This was not our final box, this would just show us how our box would look like, and add any revisions if we wanted to.

When I was assembling the box, I became confused. I measured out the space between the separators and they would be 2 inches apart. But when I tried it the pieces would not fit and there was not enough room for all the separators. That’s when I found out that I had accidentally cut out 3 instead of 2. It was annoying because I only realized this just after cutting the box and that I had wasted my time. But I moved on and started taping.

Taping was pretty easy but it was hard to make sure the pieces weren’t crooked, and masking tape is not the best type of tape to hold together a box but it managed. After I had finished taping the box many of the pieces were crooked but I didn’t mind because I finally saw what my box would actually look like instead of envisioning it in my mind.