Design Machine

Nineth week's Assigment

For this week, the assignments to be accomplish are:

Design mechanical structure for the Machine that we are going to make
Learn to Constraints that material HDPE has and make it work
Test the Machine in another material before cutting the actual design

Getting Inspire

Our Group started by brainstorming how to make a Machine, and we soon realize how hard is to actually do this!! Z is the most dificult part to control!!!

Kurina Before and After the Brainstorming (don't judge a Book for its cover! hahaha!!)

Let's do Joints!!

CNC has been one of the most fun machine to learn and work with

Me explaining the joing inside/out and then the actual design in AutoCad

checking the 3D drawing in Fusion

CNC cutting at 12.7mm (a 13mm HDPE) so our design was wrong from the beggining.
Settings for the ShopBot FR: 140, RPM 16,000 a One flut upcut Endmill.

the picture on the right show that piece that holds the spindle and it was too heavy to added to our Z, so we got inspired by the CNC grip that our instructor and me fixed (the skirt of the ShopBot)

Drawing in AutoCad and Final Clamp-Grip

Video Making

I tried to show the ordeal that our team had making the machine, but I realize all FabAcademy2017's student must have felt the same way!! chears to all!! I Hope honestly that you guys enjoy the video!!

Final Video Presentation!! (get some earplugs!)

Lessons Learnt

Failures:

We fail so manny times!!

Take care of:

Material thickness before cutting even if the vendor says the actual size and thickness.
trust in your instints
Be aware of the Time!
be ready to work on weekends and extra hours

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