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Week 3 Computer-Controlled Cutting

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In this week, we learned about a machine called CO2 laser cutter

General information

What is computer-controlled cutting?

A computer controlled router related to the hand held router used for cutting various hard materials such as wood, composites, aluminium, steel, plastics and more.

Group Tasks

Students devided into teams to search about some information related to CO2.

The resultes of Group tasks:

  1. speed: 90 mm/s (Sayed Ali Group)
  2. Power: 80 Watts (Sayed Ali Group)
  3. spacing: 1.65mm (Zainab Group)
  4. focus: 0.8mm (Ali Naser Group)

Individual Task

Each student was asked to make his own pressfit design and cut its pieces by the cutting machine CO2 and then attach them togather to get the final result.

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Vinyl Cutter (Sticker)

We used the vinyl cutter machine to cut stickers and apply them where we wanted. I applied the sticker I cut on my labtop. We downloaded a silhouette of the design we wanted and submitted it into the fablab share gmail to get the file into the vinyl cutter machine.

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Last update: September 6, 2023