Computer Controlled Machining
This week I decided to go big or go home. After noticing my officemate crashing on our tiny couch before a big paper deadline, I jokingly offered to make him a bunk bed for our office. Well the joke progressed and here we are.
This week we started by doing soem characterizations as a group. The results are shown beoiw. Overall the supplied plywood is not that great, but I knew I would be buying my own wood later one.
Now that we have characterized stuff, let’s model the bed! I used freebunkbed.org as a design reference, although I cad’d everything from scratch and in no time I had a model. I did everything paramterically, and was so happy to finally get to a point where I had no interferences (took a tremendous amount of time).
I then laser cut a miniature out of cardboard, which was a great idea since I had some joinery issues that needed quick fixing.
Once everything was ready, I headed to home depot with Cynthia and Daniel. I had my eye on some sande plywood, which was expensive but really the only type I could visually bear.
Once I got my wood I began CNC’ing. There were some major delays but eventually I got time on the shop bot. [フレーム]
After many cuts I ended up with a stack of puzzle pieces, with my fingers crossed they would all fit together.
And they did! Although as you can see in this video it is very wobbly. [フレーム]
Oh well, it’s late, let’ do some glamor shots.
Fit perfectly in our office. Ken approved!