ENGR 2192 Introduction to Making Spring 2024

  Process To start, I sketched out my design on paper before entering Fusion. This allowed me to think ahead of what sort of dimensions I was looking for in the first place. Then on Fusion, I went to the gear parts and picked out bevel gears that worked together. Ryan helped me understand how some of the numbers on gears work so that I was able to pick these gears that work well together. After this I sketched out all of the rods I was going to use in my gearbox. This allowed me to work around the gears and build up the box from the inside out. In this way I was able to better visualize what I wanted my end result to look like. I used a box building technique similar to that of project 2, but unfortunately more time consuming. One my models were complete I started cutting and printing. Cutting was interesting in the sense that plastic cuts actually come out very well on the laser cutter compared to wood since the plastic doesn't really burn. Ryan found me an acrylic cement for thes...

Process When I first started thinking of ideas for a final project, I immediately wanted to try my hand at making a custom chess board. The first step in my process was to design a simple chessboard frame in Fusion 360; I tried to keep it pretty plain while still including classy details like the rounded corners. I cut the board out on the CNC machine, sanded it down, and applied wood stain to tint it darker before calling it complete. My next step was to cut out 72 wood squares (64 squares for the board and 8 extra, just in case) with the Rayjet laser cutter; I cut these squares with 1.5 inches on each side and measured the height to ensure the squares would fit nicely into the chess board's middle indention. After these squares were cut, I sprayed them with primer and then painted half of them maroon and half of them white. I also sanded down the corners of a few pieces to use as corner squares of the board. Finally, after checking to make sure all of the pieces fit snugly into t...

 Process My goal was to create a CNC model of Ghostface, which was detailed with the laser cutter. I used this artwork for the base.  I started this process by creating a rough sketch of what I wanted to create for my project in MS Paint. I then ported this over to an external art program in order to further refine the design I wanted to create to both clean up the lines and so I ported  MS Paint Sketch SAI sketch I then sent this sketch to Adobe Illustrator and rasterized the image to transform the lines into a useable format that I could then send to the CNC machine. I exported this to Fusion360 so that I could build my model for CNCing. I then uploaded this program to the CNC machine and started to drill.   My end result was not what I was looking for. It was missing a cutout and due to the way I had set up my project, I had drilled the outside instead of the inside pieces first, leading to it messing up and me having to restart the cut. My second time around I le...