This class is something I’ve been looking forward to since I first stepped foot on the OEDK my freshman year. Since then, I have been involved with the robotics club, where I learned quite a few prototyping methods. Perhaps my favorite thing I’ve done was playing around with the CNC mill in the machine shop. I learned how to program it using the built-in geometric software, and I made quite a few things with it since then! Perhaps my favorite thing was a set of brackets for my research group. Here it is below (It is the first one we made, so it wasn’t right, but we made a better one, I promise!)

I also dabbled a little with welding with Joe’s MECH 343 class, and I loved every minute of it. I’m not a huge fan of picture-taking, so unfortunately, I do not have many examples of what I made.

But enough with what I am proud of. I am here to broaden my knowledge, so I really want to make a more complex machine, such as a gear-powered bell tower. I know I won’t be able to make it autonomous because that requires some very powerful tools, but I would like for everything to work in tandem with a turning crankshaft.

Design-wise, I can be ambitious. However, though I have a lot of solutions which I perceive to be great, and which work great on paper, I am not yet comfortable with making and implementing them. This is what I want to improve with this class. After carefully designing something, I want to make the switch to prototyping as natural as possible.

Thanks for reading my post! To my classmates, I hope to get to know you better and see the awesome things you make.