Students
George Baughan, Erik Peters, Carter Zavits
Project Description
Our project is a wooden guitar rack that can be mounted in a dormitory setting. The guitar rack is a wooden cut-out constructed of the word “PRINCETON.” As of now, the rack will have the letter “O” in “Princeton” be able to spin/move when a guitar or other weight is placed onto the rack. In addition, we plan to have lights attached to the apparatus so as to please both an aesthetic and functional purpose. For the purposes of the project, we first found a design that we found satisfactory and exported an image to GIMP software. We edited the original image into a black-and-white format, then exported the vector as a PNG. After this step, we imported the image into Inkscape and found a way to trace the image into an SVG. Following this process, we imported the SVG into Fusion and were able to find the image into the Fusion 360 software.
Prior to the class cancellation due to the COVID-19 situation, we had ordered our wood and were set to begin the stages of using X-Carve. Unfortunately, our wood hadn’t come in prior to being sent home from campus so we were unable to achieve any of our preliminary technical designs, sketches, etc. We regret that we were not further along by this point, although the instructors informed us, as we were only on our first semester of the course, that we were right on track with our project. Due to this situation, we do not have a ton of technical design or fabrication photos to attach for the midterm. We attached the design submitted to Fusion360 for the X-Carve program. Other than that, our group sent an email to the course instructor regarding next steps following the COVID situation, but we have yet to heard back. We understand how challenging this situation is for everyone, and are looking to do whatever we can remotely towards the completion of this project.