Canoe Part 2

Finishing the canoe meant working with components to get a clear, understandable, good looking, complete model of the canoe. Each part of the canoe has to become a component so the design is easily navigated to see each part of the canoe.

Canoe Part 1

This assignment was to recreate a cardboard canoe that was made last year for the cardboard canoe race. The canoe is made with two cardboard shells, given structure with a series of ribs. The surface tool is used to make the shells, a useful tool that allows for complex shapes to be made just through…

Lamp Shade

Making a lampshade requires using patterns of bodies to make a complete shape in Fusion 360, with a few features I have never used before. The first is the intersect feature, where you can take a shape, extrude it, and then only keep the parts of the bodies that the extrusion intersects. This is useful…

Assemblies and Motion

This assignment was to make a series of components that moved together in Fusion 360 like they would in real life, through use of the joint tool and the motion study function. The joint tool allows various types of joints to be made in Fusion, such as sliding and revolving joints, the two needed for…

Arduino Enclosure

The next assignments during quarantine was to make an Arduino enclosure, a device to encase and protect an Arduino when the Arduino is used to program a larger project. The specifications and details were the most important part of the project. The enclosure needed standoffs, an acrylic cover, and access to the ports on the…

Review and Animations

The first assignments during quarantine were simple review tasks, and one animation task, as well as a coding challenge through OpenProcessing, a website where you can code mostly visual projects, interactive or just neat to look at. The assignment there was just a very minimal introduction to the new coding language. The animation was to…

Switching Focus to Machining

This week instead of continuing work on the maglev I have decided to focus completely on machining, and revisit the maglev after. I think learning machining is a skill that will eventually be more important to me in the future than having completed the maglev. This week I made a simple cube with fillets to…

OSHA Training Week

I spent most of this week doing OSHA training, a ten hour course provided by the school for OSHA certification. Although tedious the course and certification are worth all the wasted time, teaching of general workplace hazards. After completing OSHA training Thursday morning I resumed on the maglev as normal. The laser cutter broke and…

No Progress this Week

Having been out all week due to sickness, nothing got done this week, as today was spent quickly studying for, and taking the weekly test. This week was on resistors, the same topic covered last week so not an issue. Magnets I need to continue working on the maglev arrived this week, though in testing…

Circuitry and Levitation

This week the main focus was working with circuits to drive the train, and trying to get a setup for magnets to levitate what will eventually be the train. These are both necessary to the function of the train and are problems that need to be solved to come close to completing the project. Driving…