What do two-dimensionality (2D) and three-dimensionality (3D) actually mean?
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Now let’s finally get active!
In the last two missions, we learned that you need technical drawings before you can build a product. We also now know what 2D and 3D mean. This will be important for our later drawings.
So that we can first practice drawing, we will, as an exception, build the model first before creating the drawing. Fortunately, this is possible for small things.
Build a helicopter
Task:
If you have Lego at home, you can try to rebuild the Lego helicopter from the photo. But you can also use completely different materials. Do you happen to have brownies or sheet cake at home? Then cut out the right parts from it. Or build a helicopter out of playdough, out of cookies or chocolate, out of wooden blocks or or or … If you want to use materials that can be shaped or cut yourself, you can download templates here that roughly have the shape of Lego bricks.
If you feel like building a helicopter out of cookies and don’t have a recipe handy, you can download our shortcrust cookie recipe. In the next mission, you can see a video about it, but you can also take a look here by clicking on the arrow:
When you’re done with your model, take a photo of it and post it in our community. Afterwards, we’ll continue with drawing in Mission 3.
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