Computer-controlled machining / 20.03.2013

A Viking ship Last week I took my daughter to her school. Public School Joaquín Turina. Seville I was talking to her teacher (my daughter is three years old) about the games that children have in  school. Then came the idea of ​​a play Viking ship as my exercise. The ship would help the children play and the exercise would not be abandoned in a corner of the Fab Lab. The teacher was delighted and the ship would be waiting for children to play. I wanted to do something with the website Thingiverse. It is a repository of 2D and 3D files and I really  like it because it's a very participatory web. I searched the web and found a Viking ship for laser  cutting. I designed with the software Rhinoceros (barco.3dm) and created a DXF file. I have worked on this design to fit into of two pieces of plywood panel size 1220x1420 mm and 15 mm  thick. I also received a “master class” from José Buzón and now I can drive the milling machine TEC-CAM  Fab Lab 3000. For this I used the program VCarve Pro, I converted to MACH2-3Arcs file (txt file) and I've uploaded the file directly into the machine via a USB key (1.txt and 2.txt). I have to say that there has been much to sand and even I have had to resort to a manual milling machine to make some extra arrangement. But in a Fab Lab have to be many solutions. This week the children have holidays in Spain and the schools are not open. It's a shame because the practice had to end at school with children jumping and playing with the boat. Now I have to return the modified design to Thingiverse. It's something that I love to do.