2.810, Manufacturing Processes and Systems
The final project in this class was to mass fabricate a bunch of remote control cars and race them against the other teams. Our dream team of uberengineers ended up winning the competition. Woot.
The point of the class was to gain familiarity with many different fabrication tools/processes. We used a 30ton injection molding machine to make the wheel hubs, high pressure waterjet to cut the neoprene foam tires, sandcasting for the aluminum chassis, vacuum forming for the control box and probably some lasercutting/drilling/reaming/tapping somewhere in there too.
I really wanted to finish the digitally reconfigurable surface in time for this class (so we could use it for vacuum forming), but that project is going at its own pace.
The point of the class was to gain familiarity with many different fabrication tools/processes. We used a 30ton injection molding machine to make the wheel hubs, high pressure waterjet to cut the neoprene foam tires, sandcasting for the aluminum chassis, vacuum forming for the control box and probably some lasercutting/drilling/reaming/tapping somewhere in there too.
I really wanted to finish the digitally reconfigurable surface in time for this class (so we could use it for vacuum forming), but that project is going at its own pace.
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