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3D printing: slicing, materials, tolerances, and designing parts that print well.
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Engrave a die into laser rubber, print a handle that fits it, and you have a tool that neither machine could make alone. Artwork rules, mirroring, Speedy settings and a Fusion handle in one short walk-through.
Design Project · 4 weeks ·
A four-week build that combines three processes in one product. Mill a hardwood base, vacuum form a shade over a mould you make yourself, and print the joint that connects the two.
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Calipers measure three ways, across a part with the big jaws, inside a hole with the small jaws, and down into a hole with the rod on the end. How to hold them for each, what the number means, and how to write it down so you can model from it.
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How to read a screw or bolt by its head, drive, thread, length and material, so you can name it, find a match, and take a product apart without stripping anything.
Design Project · 6 weeks ·
Design and print a radio-controlled car, boat, plane, drone or submarine around a shared set of electronics. Pick the vehicle; the CAD, the wiring and the assessment are the same.
Design Project · 3 weeks ·
Design a glider that flies straight and far from a hand launch. Airfoil ribs and a fuselage from laser-cut balsa, a printed nose and wing saddle, and a test log that proves the glide ratio got better.
Design Project · 6 weeks ·
Build a camera system for a school waste station that looks at what someone is holding and lights up the right bin, so garbage, recycling and organics stop ending up in the wrong place. Train the classifier on your own school's trash, design the interaction, build the housing, and test it where the bins actually are.
Design Project · 4 weeks ·
Design a clock for a wall, three ways. A laser-cut analog clock on a quartz movement; a printed clock with electronics that tells the time in a way nobody has seen; or a clock that measures something other than the hours, like the tide, the moon, a season, or a deadline. Pick one route, or one route and a twist.
Design Project · 4 weeks ·
Pick one scene from a play, a film or a book and design the space it happens in, as a lit scale model. Read for what the scene needs, decide what the room says about the people in it, then build it in plywood, print and light.
Design Project · 4 weeks ·
Design and make one hand prop that has to be believed. A key, a lantern, a device, a weapon that is not one, a book that does not exist. It has to read from the distance it will be seen at, survive the run, and be safe in an actor's hand.
Design Project · 4 weeks ·
Design a machine that throws a payload as far and as repeatably as you can. Prove the mechanism at desk scale with a ping-pong ball, then build it full size from 2×4s and launch a pie pumpkin across the field.
Design Project · 5 weeks ·
Design and build a physical display, model or hands-on simulation that teaches one idea to a stranger in about a minute, with no one there to explain it. A working mechanism, a cutaway, a scale model, or an interactive that shows why something happens.
Design Project · 4 weeks ·
Design, simulate, print and fly a rocket on a commercial 18 mm model rocket motor. Stability comes from the numbers before it comes from the launch pad. Recovery has to work, the flight has to be safe, and the altitude has to be measured.
Design Project · 4 weeks ·
Design and build one interactive module on a 10" × 10" plywood square that stands alone and also lives beside other people's modules on a shared wall. An Arduino, some inputs, some outputs, and an experience that makes a stranger say "that was fun" or "interesting".
Design Project · 6 weeks ·
Build a tabletop, display-grade model of one human joint that moves the way the real one moves and stops where the real one stops. Bones printed, ligaments that limit motion, muscles that drive it if you go that far, on a base that says what you are looking at. Designed with a kinesiology partner who knows the anatomy.
Design Project · 4 weeks ·
Design and build a small speaker from a driver, an amplifier board and a box you designed for that driver. The box is the product. Its volume, its port and its stiffness decide how it sounds as much as the driver does.
Design Project · 4 weeks ·
Design an object in Fusion, turn it inside out into a printed mould, and cast it in concrete. A planter, a speaker body, a desk organizer, or the heavy base of a lamp. The print is the tool; the concrete is the product.
Design Project · 5 weeks ·
Design and build a structure for an animal that will actually use it. A solitary bee hotel, a bird or bat box, a cat tower, a catio, a dog house. The client cannot read your drawings, so the research has to be right.
Design Project · 5 weeks ·
Build a scale model of the campus that helps a new student find their way. Each group makes one building from plans; everyone assembles the site together. Labels, colour and a legend make it a map, not just a model.
Design Project · 4 weeks ·
Design an award for a real event at the school and make a run of them, combining laser-cut structure, a 3D-printed figure or feature, and a UV-printed plate. A product, not a one-off.
Design Project · 3 weeks ·
Find something around you that is broken, missing a part, or annoying to use, and fix it with a printed part. The part has to work, and it has to be designed for the printer, not just printable.
Design Project · 3 lessons ·
Engrave a stamp die into laser rubber on the Trotec Speedy, then design and print a handle that fits your hand and tells you which way is up. Artwork, mirroring, shoulder angles, ergonomics, and ten clean impressions.
Design Project · 3 weeks ·
Design a part that fits a real bike and does a real job, model it in Fusion from your own measurements, print it, and prove it survives use. Mounts, clips, guards, holders, tools.
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A 3D-printable icing nozzle where the number of teeth, the wall thickness and the diameter are all parameters. Loft, thicken, emboss, circular pattern, pipe.
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Any gear you add to a pegboard has to mesh with the ones already there and land on a 1" hole. Here is the arithmetic, the Spur Gear add-in settings, and a motion link to prove it.
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Five user parameters drive a 3D-printable frame. Change the width and height and the frame rebuilds for a 4×6, an 8×10 or a 200 mm square without touching the sketch. Also a reference for fully defined sketches and the constraint tools that get you there.
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The numbers that make a part print well on a filament printer. Tolerances for fits, the overhang rule, minimum feature sizes, and how nozzle size sets both the layer height you can use and the smallest detail you can make.
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