Week 2 - Computer-Controlled Cutting

Week 2 - Computer-Controlled Cutting

2018, Sep 12    

Vinyl Cutting

Starts from making a simple Mickey sticker:

A Mickey Sticker Mickey sticker

And then making some more challenging tree sticker (It’s a famous pine tree in China, called Guest-Greeting Pine Images, located in Huangshan, Anhui, China)

Guest-Greeting Pine Guest-Greeting Pine

Laser Cutting

Goal

Design a tendon-driven finger with acrylic board.

version 1.0

  • draw the initial draft
  • draw the different plane in Solidworks

Version 1.0 version 1.0 draft

version 2.0

  • change the size of slot (considering laser beam)
  • consider wider finger

Version 2.0 version 2.0 draft

  • draw flexture part with acrylic width of 16 mm
  • change circle’s size (a little larger)
  • change the width of finger part B (distal)
  • change the flex’s size (smaller to better fit)

  • Draw different diameters and find the press-fit size 6.24 (diameter 6.35) 3.06 (diameter 3.175). The designed size will be ~0.11mm smaller than the cylinder

Version 3.0 version 3.0 CAD

Version 3.0 version 3.0 finger

the prototype