digital fabrication (10/2007-12/2007)

The aim of the class was the students to get accustomed to the digital technologies and the machines of the facilities. All the projects had very specific parameters and in between these parameters the design process was expressed.

project: the pipe
tutors: Marta Male Alemany
assistant: Shane Salisbury
students: Anastasia Fragkoudi, Maria Papaloizou

The first project, the pipe, involved the creation of a tube of specific dimensions fabricated in the laser-cutting machine. The tube could not exceed in length 36cm and the edges of the physical model had to be a circle of 18cm in diameter. The 3d model was designed in rhino and the laser cut file derived through the rhino and autocad software. The physical model was fabricated from wood, which was cut in the laser-cutting machine.



project: the matrix
tutors: Marta Male Alemany
assistant: Shane Salisbury
students: Anastasia Fragkoudi

The matrix, the second project, was an assignment that involved the fabrication of a rapid prototyping model using the 3d printing machine. The 3d model could not exceed the limits of a cube of 6cm edge. The design should end up in every edge of the cube in a circle of 3cm in diameter, whose center was placed in the section of the diagonals of each side. The 3d model was created in rhino and the physical model was printed in the 3d printing machine using powder as a material.


project: the ripple
tutors: Marta Male Alemany
assistant: Shane Salisbury
students: Anastasia Fragkoudi, Higinio Llames

The third project, the ripple, involved the 3d milling of a specific surface. The surface was the same for all students, 36 x 70 cm, but the milling process should be different. The 3d model was created in rhino and the simulation of the milling process was created in rhinocam. The trajectories were random lines that engraved the initial surface. The physical model was created by foam and milled in the CNC milling machine.


project: the chip
tutors: Marta Male Alemany
assistant: Shane Salisbury, Victor Vina
students: Anastasia Fragkoudi, Ramon Velazquez, Renu Gupta, Weiss Michael, Rafael Gutierrez, Krystian Kwiecinski, Asaduzzaman Rassel, Higinio Llames, Ismini Koronidi

The chip, the final assignment, involved the manufacturing of a chip that would react to light and produce sound. Each member of the group had to manufacture a chip from scratch, milling the circuit, soldering the lines, placing the sensors, the led, etc. When all 9 chips where created we programmed each one of them in order to behave as individual circuits but also as a unity.