ENGR 2192 Introduction to Making Spring 2025

Proposal Statement I plan to make a useless box. It is basically a device whose only function is to turn itself off. Mine will have a main on-off switch, a power switch, two servo motors, two RGB LEDs, and a mini speaker. It will be powered by an STM32 Nucleo microcontroller board and a 6V NiMh battery. The board will provide power to the LEDs, and will provide control signals to every component. The battery will just provide power to the servos and (maybe) the speaker if I can't figure out how to increase the volume. The main switch is what triggers servo movement, and the power switch turns on and off the servos, LEDs, and speaker. Basically, when the switch is off, meaning the box is closed and in neutral state, the LEDs are cycling through the color spectrum and the speaker is playing party music. When a user flips the switch up, the lights shut off, the music cuts, the lid servo lifts the lid, the arm servo reaches out and flips the switch back off, the lid closes, and the mus...

Proposal Statement I plan to make a wooden shelf for my trinkets. I want it to be cute enough that I will want to actually use it. That is why I want to use the laser cutter to make small designs to upgrade the shelf to a more aesthetically pleasing shelf. These details will help make the shelf feel more intentional and pretty, making it functional and a creative expression of my style. First ideas and sketches. I traced a picture of this decorative shelf bracket for the shelf. I will laser cut this. My Fusion360 shelf drawing.  This is one of the inspiration shelves I found. I am still working on the design for a decorative laser cut top piece. Advice I talked with Dawson, Dr. T, Ryan, and Jorge about my ideas and they all thought it was a very good and doable idea. I also shared the design with some of my peers who all responded positively, describing it as cute and an engaging design. I didn't really get any feedback on what to do or what to change, but I already had a solid ide...

(Reference image 1)  Proposal Statement I plan on making a dice tower for tabletop games. I already made a dice tray this semester, which was nice, but I now want to try make something that serves a similar purpose but has the potential of being way cooler! I want to be able to attach this dice tower onto castle-like walls so that the dice don't go too far once they come out of the bottom. (Reference image 2) Advise So far, I have gotten the chance to speak to Dawson and Ryan about this project. Ryan helped me figure out how my sketches should look for when I laser cut the walls of my project. Dawson gave me a couple tips regarding supports for 3d printing, including that I should use normal supports instead of tree supports because of how thin my overhang areas are. (Visualization of what the walls should look like, I'm glad I did this because I realized there were a couple issues with this design) Rough game plan First, I will make prototypes of my dice tower and walls to ens...

 1) Proposal Statement:      - For my project, I plan to make a game device for a card game I play called Magic the Gathering. I want the device to include space to store my deck, space to store dice and extra card tokens, and some way to keep track of my life total. Here are some pictures of inspiration for the project: 2) Advise:      -  I mainly spoke to Dawson about this project idea. He advised me on what I should do for the mechanism to keep track of my life total. He showed me a pill holder he had that adjusted with a clicker and told me I could use something similar as the mechanism to keep track of the life total. He also told me I could find designs online to be 3D printed for the life total. Here are some images of potential mechanisms I could try to make for the life count: 3) Rough Game Plan       - I plan to separate this project into 2 parts: the wooden part and the life counter. The wooden part I plan to design in fu...

Proposal Statement      I plan to make a hummingbird feeder! My family and I always put feeders out every year and love seeing hummingbirds stop at our house.  Advice     For this project, I sought the advice of both Ryan and Dawson. Ryan suggested that I use acrylic to make the bottle that would hold the syrup (using the laser cutter). He also said it would work best if it was rectangular and square in shape, rather than circular, and to test how well we can manipulate the acrylic before making the full design in fusion.       Dawson agreed with Ryan, especially in using acrylic for the bottles. They recommended acrylic because it is water tight, as opposed to something 3D printed that might leak. Dawson also strongly recommended using wood or cardboard to test the bottle design to see how I want the final project to look.     Rough Game Plan     For my project, I plan to make the bottles for the feeder out of a...

Process: For this project, I decided to keep things simple in order to make a desktop wallet and key pocket. As someone who always loses my keys since they fall off my desk and under my bed, I wanted a dedicated spot for my valuables. I opted not to use the topographical feature from the tutorial as it would prevent keys from sitting flat inside the pocket cutout. The process was relatively simple: I created a fusion file with a body made from a circle and a tangent rectangle (3 edges tangent, one edge as a diameter) as shown below. I then created an inner copy of this shape to make the inner border layer.  I then extruded the shape upwards and added small fillets on the outer corners, and a large fillet on the inside to make a cup shape. Then I added the tool paths. There were 3 tool paths I needed, one for the main roughing operations, and two for the chamfer cleanup and clearing the roughing gaps. I then sent each of these off to individual download files to run on. the StepCraf...

  Process     This project was probably the most challenging one in fusion. It was really difficult to come up with a design that incorporated a topographical map or design. My mom constantly forgets to put her rings back on after working the in kitchen, so for my design I wanted to create a heart-shaped dish for her to store her rings. It was difficult at first to create the shape of the heart. I hadn't really worked with a shape other than a square or rectangle, but once the shape was made, I was able to use other functions that I was more familiar with. It wasn't until I had to create tool paths that it got really confusing. Special shout out to Dawson for all his help!  Results     Despite how hard and time consuming this project was, I love the result! I think the topographical design makes the bowl unique and special, as no one else will be using Denton, TX, as their reference. It turned out a little bigger than I imagined, but it still turned out gre...

Process For this project we used the CNC (Computer Numerical Control) Mill to create a design that incorporates a topographic element. We used Fusion 360 again to create our designs, but this time we created tool paths using CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing) to then mill our design on the CNC. I first made a "things" catch-all tray for my mom because she loves wooden trays. I decided to utilize the 6x6 in dimensions completely and even go a little further and put some engravable writing. I then realized I needed to use some kind of topographic surface, so I took the topography around my house in north San Antonio and replaced the smooth top surface with the topographic data. Then I had to create the paths for the milling process. I made four total paths: one for cutting out the shape, one for the topographic contours, one for the engraving, and one morphed spiral. But when I came in to fabricate the design, Dawson found some better ways to do it. We went with his paths becau...

Process Much like the previous projects, I started with referencing the tutorial. I chose my topographical area to be a road in Moab, Utah; a place I passed through on a spring break road trip a few weeks ago. I thought the landscape was insane so I thought it would be cool to make a model of that for this project. I followed many of the same steps, but diverged from the tutorial when I made the slots for the USB holder. I made a new sketch, drawing a rectangle with the same dimensions of a USB input, and extruded it to a point on the lower end of the topography. I wanted two of these slots though, but I didn't know how to move the location of the sketch to the second position, so I asked Dawson for help and he showed me how to do a circular rotation extrude, which positioned the second extrude a little further along the circumference of a circle within the topography. I made the extrude depth from a point about a quarter of an inch, which would be enough to securely position the U...

Process My project was an organizing tray for gaming. I began by taking the same file we used in the practice video. Since I wanted a relatively flat and square object, I scaled the object to be 6"x6"x3/4". I then sketched two large rectangles and and dimensioned them to be identical, then used the extrude tool to cut two large rectangular holes into the square. Afterward, I used the fillet tool to create a smoother edge between the bottom and sides of the holes. Once I moved onto playing with the pathing for the machine, I mostly followed the same instructions in the video for this project, the main setting I changed was using different cutting tools, since I had a relatively large piece, I was able to use larger tools to save on time. Results At first, I wanted to have 3 to 4 compartments, so that I could organize many different components for when I'm gaming. However, I realized the compartments would likely be too small, and would limit the size and the quantity ...