Reflection on Fabrication

Reflection on Fabrication
Published on Feb 18, 2021 by Jiaolyulu

After showing Ben this prototype, I got several suggestions.

Lasercutting the gear

Using Derin or other metal and lasercut the gears. If I want more accuracy, I need to consider buying those existing gears.

Make the piece a whole

In the movement, the wood panels are actually shaking due to the force. So in order to make it more robust, I should use some standoff to make all the wood connected. Also, if possible, make the wood struction next to each other as a whole piece.

Assembly

the assembly process is really complicated. That is why I should use stand off. If there are extra wood structure to keep all the wood in shape as previous one do, it would make it too complicated if I want to do some modification to the structure. Everytime, I will need to take the exta wood structure off.

CNC

Ben ask me to do the CNC on othermill machine because my piece is small. Later I figure out it is a terrible idea because every piece would take 3 hours and I might spend 24 hours looking at CNC machine for one machine. Because Othermill can only use 18 inch end mill so it would definitely takes longer time.

However, thanks to Makerspace, I got the training of the CNC machine in Makerspace of Tandon. Their machine is Shopbot and is compatible with Fusion 360. That is a good news but also a bad news for me.