3D Printed Robot Flower Pot

Hi! This is how you can make a 3D printed robot flower-pot!

All you need is a computer, a TinkerCAD account, and internet. You can make an account here.

If you have no experience or otherwise are a beginner, I suggest that you learn through the tutorial how to use TinkerCAD. It is pretty straightforward, and the basics are easy to learn.

If you have went through the tutorial (hopefully you did), you should know how to create a new workplace. If not, then why haven't you? Go do that now! I'll be here...have you done it? Ok great.

After creating a new workplace, you should start making some legs with squares, or as TinkerCAD calls it, "boxes". You can choose whatever length, width, and height you want.

Once you have the desired length for a leg, you should make two joints. To do this, all you need to do is to select a sphere and drag it to the workplace. Again, adjust the length, width, and height to match up with the legs.

After doing so, group the parts together, and you can shape the legs to whatever you want the robot to look like. I made the robot sitting. If you want, you can add another box and shape it to look like thighs. If you don't want to, thats fine also. You'll just have to make the legs longer, or the body shorter.

Now that you have the legs, add the body (obviously).

Take a box and shape it in a body form. For me, I made it into a thin rectangle, becasue I am making a robot. You can use other shapes and explore around and that is perfectly fine. I also used spheres in the "hole" form (which is in the tutorial...i think) to make the robot look like it is sitting (it need to have a bottom don't ask).

For the arms, I did a similar thing as with the legs. Hopefully you read the first step, becasue I explained how to make the legs. But i'm going to restate the steps for the arms, becasue they are a little different. I changed the size of the boxes to be smaller (because arms are smaller than legs right?) and connected them with "joints" (which are just spheres). Then I added another section, just like how we have another section connecting our joints to our sholders. I tilted the angles of the arms so it would look like the robot is hugging/holding the flower-pot. I attached it to the main body.

For the head, I just used a box and scaled it down and stuck it to the body. Again, I tilted it so it is looking into the flower-pot. If you want, you can make facial details. I only made eyes, and that can be done in many ways. I use hole-cylinders and attached it and angled it accordingly.

For the flower-pot, I used a half-sphere. I flipped it upside-down, stretched it out and made it bigger, and then used a hole-box to flatten the bottom. I duplicated it and made the duplicated version into a hole to make the flower-pot hollow (otherwise how are we gonna put plants into it lol). I used a ring to make it look even more like a flower-pot (pretty sure all flower-pots have like a ring on the top of it...unless im wrong). I grouped the hole with the base and now it's hollow!

After I grouped it, I took some hole-cylinders to make tiny holes on the bottom of the flower-pot, to drain excess water out. You can put as many as you see fit, but I only put a few to show.

If you followed and read all the instructions (which I hope you did if you wanted to make this because otherwise how would you make this lol), you should have a finished flower-pot and whatever thing you wanted to hold it (I obviously made a robot). Group it together and...voilá! Finished! You can make a platter or something to hold the water, but I didn't. After this, you should be able to print it out on a 3D printer (unless you don't know how to do it, or don't have one...but then why would you make it if you don't have one?) If you want to, you can separate the flower-pot and the robot to make them different colours.