Intro to Fabrication - Week 5
Two materials
This week’s project: time for another (better) box!
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Tasked with (a) using fasteners and (b) using at least two materials that are neither plywood or acrylic, I started out by grabbing some scrap natural wood from the shop that I liked the size and look of.
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I also recently purchased some EVA foam for another ITP project, and planned on using that to create the compartment of this new divider box. From the get-go I knew that with so little wood to work with, I wanted the EVA foam visible from the outside even with the box shut.
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For the hinge and clasp, I went over to Bruno’s and picked from their small selection. I would’ve liked smaller hinges, especially because I think the sizable screws are running pretty close to the surface of my wood planks, but I just had to roll with it.
One thing I discovered is that shaping this foam is kind of a nightmare. In the next few days I’ll need to cut a bunch of circles and other complex shapes out of the stock I have, and this smaller EVA project at least taught me I’ll need to plan for that and select my tools carefully. This project also incorporates some thin cork material I found on the junk shelf.
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I guess another sub-theme of my work in Intro to Fab is microcontrollers–I sized this box to perfectly fit my Arduino Nano 33 and my Teensy 4.0.
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The fasteners used to create this box include screws, nails (tiny ones on the clasp), hinge pins, wood glue, and contact cement to bond the foam to the wood.
–2/28/23