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Impaled Napkin Rings
As part of a class about designing for the plastic injection molding process, I designed, cut molds and shot some napkin rings called the Impaled Napkin Rings series. Process below. I first 3D printed some prototypes to see how they worked. I learned that living hinges do not work with our printer material. I cut the molds…
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Designing a Chair Prototype in a week
I’ve been inspired by many chairs over the last week or so and spent far too much time in my head and on paper sketching ideas. Last night I cut and assembled the chair I designed in six hours using 2 2x4x8’s and a 4 foot by 4 foot piece of 1/2″ plywood. Here is…
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And l’oven is done
we called it the “l’oven” project from the start because we loved doing it. Building this neopolitan style wood burning pizza oven took around 3,000 hours of work and around 7,000 pounds of concrete and bricks. It feels incredibly satisfying to have finished it. More polished process/final photo post coming soon.
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Pouring the last slab for the oven
We poured the concrete counter top for the oven last night. It came out beautifully. I did a little stop motion to capture all the excitement.
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WinkleBot website is live
My team and I completely and tested our robot as part of Stanford’s ME210 Mechatronics course last week. There’s a lot more information on the bot’s site, www.winklebot.weebly.com.