Composites
I left this assignment until very late in the day. Originally I wanted to make a skateboard with sheets of bamboo as we have resident Fab Skate expert Luciano Betoldi at the lab. However, after I designed some outlines (my favourite being the one inspired by Mario's "Bullet Bill") I got carried away with other projects and I got found the opportunity to do it. That being said I definitely plan on making my board soon and will post images as and when it happens.
Last time I was in Brussells, naturally I came back with lots of fragile bottles of Belgian beer and the lovely people at OKNO gave me some packing material they had made from plastic bottles. I really liked the way it looked so kept hold of it for a few months thinking it might be useful one day. That day has come!
I mixed the epoxy with the hardener in a 2:1 ratio. I just did it by eye and stirred it for about a minute to make sure that it was correctly activated. After doing this I ordered my materials like so and placed them inside the vacuum bag -
- Mould
- Cling Film (Cerran Wrap)
- Recycled Fibre - with the bottom side covered in resin
- Cling Film
- Thick, soft fleecy material
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The inside was coated in resin which dried shiny and hard -
The outside was left soft -
Fab cable storage!
- Computer-Aided Design
- Computer-Controlled Cutting
- Electronics Production
- Computer-Controlled Machining
- Electronics Design
- Molding and Casting
- Composites
- Embedded Programming
- 3D Scanning
- 3D Printing
- Input Devices
- Interface and Application Programming
- Output Devices
- Networking and Communications
- Machine Design
- Applications and Implications
- Project Development
- Final Project - Beehives