HW-3:
Lasercutting
Lasercutting
Just a disclaimer, I ended up starting later than I wanted to because I fell pretty sick right after class last Thursday...and only really recovered around Monday night.
Old Homework's Inspiration
I somehow ended up circling back to wanting to make a phone holder for my old homework.
New Brainstorm
I immediately saw this on Thingiverse and thought it would be fun to cut and see how assembling would go. I was also curious about the accuracy of the laser cutter...
Cutting
The lasercutting was pretty straightforward and thankfully I didn't run into trouble w/ the machine or its settings
Measuring problem
However, I soon got really confused because the legs wouldn't fit into the holes. I initially thought it was because the width of the holes weren't accommodating my material's width (1/4" pink acrylic)...
Later, however I realized in a comment from the file that none of the measurements were accurate in general, and it wasn't just me who had issues assembling. I tried increasing the width of the hole to be the width of the material, but I also realized that other measurements were off.
A New Direction
I wanted to still make something I would be able to assemble, so I modified this rocket to have slits that were 1/4" thick.