Wildcard Week

Design and produce something with a digital fabrication process not covered in another assignment.
Possibilities include (but are not limited to) composites, textiles,biotechnology, robotics, and cooking.

Introduction

This week we need to something that not covered in another assignment and also must incorporating computer-aided design and manufacturing.we have some options like we can use composites, textiles, biotechnology, robotics and cooking.After the professor class i was very much interested in composites so first i was going make something usefull using composites .

Composites

So what is composit ..? A composite is a material made from two or more different materials that, when combined, are stronger than those individual materials by themselves.

Concreteis a best example of composites.

Design

Every week when i started do something i tried to do something usefull ans something different,so here i thinked to do smothing usefull in Composit.so i decided to make a Hydroponic Grass Fodder Tray i always want to build the Hydroponics so i decided to make a Tray .

I staretd desgin in Rhino with the help of my instructor Rashid.

3D model

Milling and Cutting

For my design i need to make wooden mold of 6 cm thickness , so i used 18mm (1.8 cm) and stacked 4 nos. first i cutted the 18mm plywood sheet into four pieces and glue it together.

First i measured the ply-wood based on the design , after ensuring everything is correct , i loaded ply-wood into the shopboat.

After cutting the required part , i removed the tab's.my instructor Nisam was help me to do these process.

Stacking

For the mold i need to put all the 4 pieces into a stack , so here i used Fevicol Synthetic Resin Adhesive wooden glue to make it stack.

After glued everything stacked 4 pieces togther , my friend Hari was help me to do these process .

Now I have to put something heavy on the plywoods to stick all the layers well. I used a spare transformer and big stone :-) .

After waitng almost 5 hours it's completey stacked togther.now time to mill our mold.

CNC milling

After Stacking the ply-wood , loaded it with it on the shopboat.

befor milling i secured it with in a ply-wood using screws from bottom to top and after i secured playwood with the sacrfical layer on the shopboat.

Milling

After checking everything is fine with the help instructor Rashid ,so i started make tool path using VcarvePro after that started mill using ShopBot CNC.

After 8 hours milling due to some shopbot machine failure and power failure, milling process was stucked and can't continue mill, i was very frustrated :-/ .after discussing with instructor i decided to stop the milling process.