A design teacher's notebook
Guides, experiments, and classroom design projects from Fox Bright, a technological design teacher. Making things with printers, lasers, mills, moulds, CAD, and a bit of AI.
Design Project · 5 weeks ·
You get a six-foot cube of space in a place people already pass through, and a pile of lumber. The design prompt is how might we spark joy around campus. What goes there is yours to work out, and you have to prove it was worth building.
Design Project · 4 weeks ·
A four-week build that combines three processes in one product. Mill a hardwood base, vacuum form a shade over a mould you make yourself, and print the joint that connects the two.
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What is actually happening inside the laser cutter, and the three ways to use it. Cutting, line engraving and raster engraving are the same beam doing three different jobs.
Design Project · 1 lesson ·
A one-lesson project. Model a two-piece slot-together stand in Fusion and cut it from 3 mm plywood so the slots hold without glue.
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Calipers measure three ways, across a part with the big jaws, inside a hole with the small jaws, and down into a hole with the rod on the end. How to hold them for each, what the number means, and how to write it down so you can model from it.
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How to read a screw or bolt by its head, drive, thread, length and material, so you can name it, find a match, and take a product apart without stripping anything.
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