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Modular desk lamp
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.
Notes on technological design
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.
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Laser-cut phone stand
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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Kerf, explained
The laser removes a sliver of material on every cut. Here is how to measure it on your machine and design joints that account for it.
Post · 6 weeks ·
Waste sorting camera
Build a camera system for a school waste station that looks at what someone is holding and lights up the right bin, so garbage, recycling and organics stop ending up in the wrong place. Train the classifier on your own school's trash, design the interaction, build the housing, and test it where the bins actually are.
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As-built joints on the piston linkage
The parts are already in place, so tell Fusion how they move. Revolute and slider as-built joints, a sub-assembly you can copy, and limits so the motion stays real.
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Adding joints by hand, the clamp example
Fusion's toggle clamp sample, assembled from six parts with revolute, cylindrical, ball and rigid joints, then given motion limits so the handle stops where a real one would.
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