Projects

Custom Cutting Board Quotes

I was approached by Mrs. Morton, my Calculus teacher, to design and make some quote designs on bamboo cutting boards she had bought so she could use them as gifts for her family. After using a small cutting board as a test piece for choosing preferred font style, depth and darkness of the laser engraving, I finalized four designs that used two different fonts, three sizes of cutting boards, and two quotes. A neat trick that I learned from this project was to use two lines at a 90 degree angle in the CAD file to represent the top right corner of the cutting board. This allowed the quotes to be engraved in the center of the cutting boards quite accurately if they were placed at a right angle on the laser cutter bed.

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Replacement computer tower faceplates

A number of our HP computer stations used all throughout the school, most commonly the Z220, Z230, and Z240 models, had a small and annoying issue: a part of their towers, the floppy disk cover panel, was missing! Although mostly an aesthetic issue at first glance, the much larger issue of potential damage from particles entering through the opening becomes apparent when the environments of the technology rooms, specifically Room 10, are taken into consideration. It was at the recommendation of my one of my instructors, Mr. Aktas, that I gather panels from other computers in the high school to redesign and manufacture replacements for the computers with the missing panel. Following the Engineering and Reverse Engineering Design Process, the end result was three different types of panels that, once manufactured using our Dremel 3D45 printers, created form-fitting replicas. Click here for the AutoCAD DWG and STL files of the parts!

Even better, at the cost of approximately $20.00 per replacement panel if purchased from an outside source, designing and making the panels ourselves only cost ~ $0.17 in material per part. At the initial production run of one Z220 model panel, fifteen Z230 model panels, and four Z240 model panels, this project has resulted in a net savings of $396.60!