Tag: CNC
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Rocket Engine (abandoned)
At the end of senior year of highschool I started on a reusable rocket engine to test solid rocket propellant and the effect of different nozzle shapes on thrust. I CNC’d out the plates and then manual lathed out the pipe, then finally I welded the end cap to the pipe, but left the nozzle…
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Lens (3D Printed)
3D printing lenses provides the ability to make custom lenses quickly, and more importantly cheaply. This lens was printed on a Form 3 following my prism project. It was subsequently sprayed with more resin to take advantage of surface tension and try to smooth things out, then it was put in a lathe and wet…
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Parametric Bird Houses
This is a system by which any birdhouse can be generated. Simply put in the dimensions and open the SolidWorks file, it’ll alter the dimensions and the drawing file will have everything you need for that birdhouse. The design is laser cut.
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Great Naval Orange Race
Every year UCF’s intro engineering class has a boat race. The goal being from one side of the fountain to the other within an $80 budget and fully autonomous. See below my team’s report on the subject. This represented my first foray into LaTeX, intensive Arduino programming, and circuit design (including a custom mounting chassis).
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RC Car Awards
I was part of the RC Car committee at the Faulhaber fab lab for three years, these were the 3rd year awards. I designed them in SolidWorks, then laser cut, assembled, and painted them.
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Lasercut Mandalorian Helmet
This was a challenge I set for myself, I CAD’ed the entire design in 16ish hours. Then laser cut and assembled it. Best of all, the helmet actually fit people. As of the time of writing its currently serving as a light fixture at the Faulhaber Fab Lab.
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Anglo-Saxon Lyre
My AP US history teacher from high school had a doctorate in history studying Anglo-Saxons aka vikings. So as a gift I made him a Lyre. The body was CNC’d out of wood and sandwiched between laser cut wooden panels. Then tuning pegs were put in and ukulele strings were used. As well the saddle…
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Topographic Map I
This is a laser cut topographic map I made as a present to my step-grandparents. A height map was inputted into blender, and using a color ramp and z-height was sliced. I then took those slices and vectorized them, threw on a road layer, and finally a bathymetric layer. It ended up really pretty, but…
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Power Supply
This power supply was heavily based off of KRALYN3D’s design. His video is excellent so let’s go over the changes I made: Materials Quantity Cost DC to DC Buck Converter LM2596 2 $13 DC Power Supply Control 1 $36 USB C Output Module (45W) 1 $11 Rocker Switch 2 $2 XT60 Jack Female 2 –…
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Lasercut Guitar
This is one of the longest projects I’ve ever undertaken, it took 6ish months, and 6 full build versions. It was designed in SolidWorks, printed on a laser cutter, and rendered out in Blender. Down below is a 3D model to explore. …
