Glasses Laser Cut

So who thinks I look like a GEEK then eh?!

Fun Glasses cut out by CNC

Just thought I'd add a few images of my fun glasses cut out of the CNC milling machine at my placement school. I added a bit of engraving into the bat face features.

My Fun Glasses on 2D Design!

As my school doesn't have a Lasercutter I decided to see if I could draw my design in 2D Design. It wasn't easy but got it done! See the following screen dump of my funglasses! The purpose was to use the CNC milling machine to 'mill' out the design on a sheet of 3mm plastic foamex board with the possibility of teaching this project to a couple of Y8 classes.

My self and Rich Ritucci are on paired placement together, so we have devised a scheme to teach the funglasses. It was a pretty good result (will post images at a later date), so we now plan to start this week! We'll have to post some results on here.

Anyways please see below of some screen grabs of the process - enjoy.

p.s. the green lines are to engrave the bat face features and the red lines are for the cut.

Progression

Just thought I'd add an update of my fun glasses project in terms of ideas to final design. So I've added a moodboard, ideas, and a screen shot of my final design working up in Pro Eng.

Pro Engineer Tutorial & Help

Here is a helpful site featuring a nice intro to Pro Engineer & some decent tutorials. Hope you like.

CNC/CAM Equipment Images

Above are a few images of the the CNC/CAM equipment available at Heritage School.

Heritage School CAD Samples Lego Man

Just thought I'd write a few things about my first school placement which is at Heritage Mathematics and Computing Specialist School in Clowne, Derbyshire.

The D&T department is quite a large one, it has six teachers plus a technician. Each teacher in the department cover specialist areas such as CAD/CAM, Resistant Materials or woodworking and metal work, Electronics, Textiles and Food Tech. Equipment is pretty good for example there are a number of Drills, Lathes, CNC milling machines, Vac Former and Metal workshop with welding equipment etc.

So far project wise I have seen a big focus on CAD but I have yet to see any CAM work being completed. Above is a good example of a Year 8 CAM project which is currently being worked on. The aim of the project is for the students to create their own Lego man in CAD. They create a different part each week and eventually they will be taught how to put these parts together and animate them. The software used is Auto Desk Inventor, which the students seem to know how to use pretty well. The students seem fairly competent and rarely need help from the teacher. If they do so the teacher has the ability through specialist software to view the students screen on the interactive Whiteboard and talk them through a solution.

It works!! Check it out - Halloween Styley! You Like?

Fully Blogged Up!!

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