W7 - Clay Printed Pot

This is the project where I struggled. I had multiple schedule conflicts with the class office hour and cannot access the clay printer. On the only day I have access, I spent the first half of the time trying to connect to the large PotterBot since there was not instruction can guide me. After figuring out the connection by myself, I constantly experienced layer thickness problems and eventually realized the the python component in the grasshopper file is outdated.

I can never find out the problem on the python component on my own, since I didn't personally make it. I usually avoid such problems by making everything by myself, so I know exactly what is going on in every part of the script, and have full control over what I can produce. But in this assignment, I had to use the external script to generate tool path.

I successfully printed a small pot on another day, but because I used the script designed for the small PotterBotwith with a smaller nozzle diameter, the surface texture is too subtle for the large nozzle diameter.