Week 8 - Large Format Machining (CNC)

Week 8 is a bit of a tragedy. :( I was really looking forward to this week as my friend Treyden had hyped it up so much. But unfortunately, the CNC machine was not delivered to the Harvard site in time, so we had to postpone it… and week by week passed by without the machine getting ready. When it finally was ready, it was almost right in Machining week, which was also close to finals, so I didn’t have time to do it. :( I want to redo it next year.

I prepared in anticipation for this week though, so I’ll still share my notes here.

Tensegrity Bedside Table

I wanted to make a bedside table for my room. I wanted to make it out of nice wood, so I created a WhatsApp group for the Harvard section to coordinate a wood delivery/pickup from Home Depot.

Some inspirational designs:

I liked this one by tparrot this most.

Designing in Fusion

I modeled a version in Fusion 360.

I also bought musical wire and screws to tie the structure together properly and nicely. This is how it should look like.

Prototype with small wood

Since the machine wasn’t ready yet, I prototyped the structure with wooden sticks.