Week 2 - Journal

Ideation

Tell us about your assignment's idea for this week. Why do you care about this idea? What inspired you? (Please include images or links to sources of inspiration)

Mobile Holder
source:
Mobile holder design using laser cutter

The Assignment for this week was to design a mobile holder using fusion 360.

This holder would help me a lot, as I use it to read a lot and watch youtube on my phone, so it would be very useful for me in that aspect

I saw a lot of designs on google images and YouTube, but I chose this one as it's a simple and efficient one.
A Youtube source with a similar design:
Making a Laser Cut Phone Stand | Fusion 360

Tool Chain

Which software/machines/materials did you use in the assignment? Why?

Fusion 360

For creating the 2D design and assembling it

Laser Cad

For Preparing the Design

Plywood

Malky Laser Cutter ML 64

For Cutting the Design.

Design/Preparation Process

Explain the design and/or preparation process of your assignment. How did you use the tool or software to design and/or prepare your assignment before fabrication/implementation?

Process of the Design

I began designing directly on Fusion 360, as I sketched the design with the desired dimensions and made it fully defined for the 2 parts, and after that, I began extruding it and assembling the parts together using the joint feature.
In the end, I changed the angle of the part and made it a little sloppy with 20 degrees of tilting and at final, I gave it the appearance of cherry wood.
After that, I imported the file to LaserCad software and then began preparing it for fabrication, I deleted the centre lines and moved the drawings to the origin of the sheet in the software.
On laser cad, I also added a design of the converted png photos and put the design in the frames of the mobile holder.

Development/Implementation Process

Explain the development/implementation process of your assignment. How did you use the machine/tool to manufacture or implement the design of your assignment?

I had the PLT file and I put the design on the Fab Lab specialist's laptop, I then Imported the design on laser cad there and edited the Engraving of the photos inside the design and made it to be speed cut of 300m/s and 35Watt, the outer frame was cut as 35m/s speed and power of 70Watt, after that I joined the two parts together using the tabs and T-Slot with a 3mm nail and a suitable nut.

holder.mp4

Fabrication Process Video

Overcoming Challenges

What kinds of challenges or problems did you face while doing the assignment, tutorials, or exercises? How did you solve them? Did you ask for help from an instructor or peer? Please provide a link to the tutorial or article that you used to solve your problem (if any)

I had a problem after I made I joined the two parts using the Joint tool from Assemble menu, which was that the point where the parts joined wasn't what I desired, and it wouldn't fit as is for the screw and nut, so I solved it by using the move tool from Modify menu and I moved the standing part as a body alone and I the inspected it with inspect >> interference tool and I found that there's no interference detected
Also, I had a problem with how to make it tilted, and I solved it by using the move tool again and rotating the parts as a component instead of a body and I was able to rotate to how it is in the picture now.

During the Midweek Session, we were designing a spinner, I had a problem with it at first when I first designed it with the help of another group member, we weren't able to design an enclosed shape, the problem was that we began the drawing in a wrong way then trimmed the excessive parts to make the spinner shape, it was successful but it wasn't enclosed.
So, I decided to redraw it again after the session ended, and I was able to draw an enclosed shape by drawing next to and above each other in every previous point of the open spinner and making them all tangent to each other, and then trim the additional and unneeded parts and it was successuful at that!

Final Project

How can you use the skills and knowledge that you've acquired this week in your final project?

Title of Media

The process of designing using fusion 360 and using T-Slots and tabs will help me with designing and fabricating the joints and components of the robot arm body

WOW!

What is the coolest thing that you've learned this week? What is something that you will never forget from this week?

Learning to design using fusion 360 was a great thing for me, also designing the spinner was something I will never forget and of course, designing the chairs during the offline session and fabricating them and then combining them together was a great thing to learn.

Weekly Digest [OPTIONAL]

Tell us about any other cool things that you've made this week: in the Hands-on activity, tutorial examples, exercises, or any other cool mini-project that you tried out aside from the assignment.

Learning to design the Arabesque was a bit challenging at first but after I finished I found it to be very cool to design.

Arabesque Design

Assignment Design Files

Holder dxf

Holder PLT

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