The Story of another Box | ENGI 210: Prototyping and Fabrication

Hello again, and welcome to the story of another box.

This story is much happier than the previous one, but still had its ups and downs.

I first started by using the MakerCase website to make my box using the instructions from the assignment, making a 4x4x4 box with a kerf of 0.015″ from the assignment description, bad error.

I put my name because…the assignment said so and because that is my name.

I put McMurtry, because I am from McMurtry.

I put an Axolotls with a Mexican frag because I am Mexican and I love Axolotls.

I then put a sad electrician because I am an ELEC major in progress and still have a lot to learn!

I put a capibara because they are so cute and it’s one of my favorite animals after an Axolotl and because I didn’t know what else to put.

And I put a Snoopy because I love Snoopy! As you may already know.

I then went to the laser cutting room to cut my file using the suggested settings from the TA’s email since it worked really well in my name tag.

M2: cutting – 37/38s, 100p, 50f, 4 cycles
engraving – 100s, 100p, 600dpi

I was so excited to finish my homework as it didn’t took that long!!!

I jinxed it…

The pieces didn’t fit😭

I tried to still join the pieces with a hammer…but as you can see, it wasn’t the best idea.

My kerf was to big!!! I thought about sanding all of the pieces and just end with it…but I wanted to try again and learn from my errors, as that was the point of the homework, so I ended up following the kerf calculating instructions and ended up with a kerf of 0.0035″ printing test pieces to see if it would work.