assignment group assignment do your lab's safety training test runout, alignment, speeds, feeds, materials, and toolpaths for your machine

individual assignment make (design+mill+assemble) something big (~meter-scale) extra credit: don't use fasteners or glue extra credit: include curved surfaces

[1] To design something big, at a meter scale, I decided to design and make a stool for my kitchen counter. After moving into Cambridge, I still haven’t purchased (or found) a stool, so I decided to make one. Our initial task was to make something out of a single sheet of OSB board, however, as I was planning on using the stool long term, I decided to buy my own wood and leave the OSB for a future making project. As I’m used to Rhino, I wanted to learn something new, so I started out trying to learn Fusion 360, but quickly grew frustrated and reverted to Rhino (old habits die hard). I wanted to build a chair that was inspired by the designs of Artigas Villanova, a Brazilian architect I admire, so I looked at some of the designs he used in his columns, to think about the legs for the chair. Using Rhino allowed me to design the chair I wanted, but after exhaustive search, I found that there was no quick way to parametrize the design in Rhino (without using Grasshopper). Sticking to Fusion 360 might have been a better decision.

Considerations:
-Use software that allows you to parametrize your designs. This will help in case you want to adjust values /need to adjust values based on material thickness.
-When using wood glue to stabilize a construction clamping is a key aspect. To clamp properly do it in an alternating manner so that the clamping is rigid, and you limit the degrees of freedom while the glue dries.
-Leave your object clamped up for 24 hours.

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