Digital Fabrication

Laser cut Keychain project

Summary:

For the Laser cut Keychain project I had decided to theme it on my dog Abbey. I had started off by downloading adobe illustrator and finding the picture I wanted to cut out. Once that was done I used the illustrator tool trace the face of my dog once I had done that I put the outline by itself and put text spelling Abbey down. From there I was able to print the keychain. Next I had to hop back on illustrator and find another picture to have the sticker as. I had done that and now I needed to switch the outline of my dog to put on the back of the keychain. Once I embedded the two I was able to send it to the sticker machine. Finally I was able to put the sticker on the back of my keychain and be done.

Reflection:

Aspect of the Laser cut key chain project that went well were the laser cutter and becoming more familiar with adobe illustrator.

A challenge that I faced during this project was an absence from school in order to do some of the printing.

If I were to do the project again I would've tried to do some more things from home from when I was absent.

Pictures:

Laser cut outline:

Sticker and outline:

laser cut puzzle and sticker project

For my project I created a laser cut puzzle that has the shape of a giraffe on a tree. I had also placed a sticker of the Giraffe on the tree as well.

Things that went well was printing the laser cutter and printer and the idea. A challenge that I had faced in this project was finding a pattern for my idea and placing that into illustrator and having it work inside of the giraffes outline.

If I were to redo this project I would probably have built something other than a puzzle.

Pictures:

CNC sign project

A aspect of my sign project that went well was designing and coming up with the Idea of what my sign will look like as well as putting cosmetics on my sign like spray paint to make it look better.

My project could have been improved by allowing more time to spray paint as well as trying to prevent the CNC bit from snapping.

If I were to do this project again I would experiment with different fonts to see what other designs could have looked like.

Pictures:

Baseball Maze

Some aspects of this project that went well was the design and creation of the maze as well as creating, printing, and spray painting of the acrylic.

My project could've been improved by taking my time during the setup process to print on the CNC machine this way project could be the actual size i wanted it to be rather than being smaller.

If I were to do this Project again I would take my time at the start so I didn't have as many technical problems to begin with.

Pictures:

Design:

I set the depth of my 2D contour to .125 and set the walls and borders to the correct height

I mad a circle and kept making it smaller and smaller and copied and pasted the laces over and over.

Cutting and Milling:

Final product:

Final Sign project

Reflection:

For my final project an aspect that I believed went well was cutting, sanding and adding the Epoxy to my Sign. These were all fun aspects of my project that I believed went really well. It was interesting working with the Epoxy which I haven't used before.

My project could've been improved if I decided to weld a frame to hold my sign. This would've taken a while since I have never welded anything before but hopefully I'll be able to continue this project once I come back from summer break.

If I decided to do this project again I would try to weld the frame for it and make the sign say something new.

Design:

During the design stage of this project the first challenges I faced was knowing what I was gonna write on my sign. Once I figured this part out it was smooth sailing.

Building:

Finished Product:

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