Unfortunately, we did not have student blog posts last weekend, so we will aren't able to share them with you this week. However, a few highlights. Junior, Tim Hunt '27 made good progress on the pressure vessel he is turning on the lathe. Senior Matt Stricker '26 and Junior Andrew Huang '27 learned about silicone …
Mr. L Shop Smarts #011
Last week we discussed the function of the Derive tool. That tool allows you to bring in certain elements of an existing design into a new or existing file. Changes you make to the derive in the new file do not affect the original template file, however, changes made to the original template file will …
25-26 Week of 3/23-3/27
A solid week of work from our students. So many interesting projects happening all the time, it's hard to keep up with them all. Below are some highlights from the week. Senior Matt Stricker '26 continues work on his walking robot: At the start of this week, I was finishing designing the cover part for …
Mr. L Shop Smarts #010
This week's Shop Smarts focuses on a single feature of Fusion 360 that I recently found quite useful - Derive. Biotech asked us to make letters that can hold a liquid. They needed several of these letters, so we decided to make 3D printed cubes that could have the shape of the letter extruded, or …
25-26 Week of 3/16-3/20
While there was a lot of great work happening in the shop this week, we decided to give the students a break from writing blog posts and let them focus on their work. Student blog posts will start again next week. A couple of highlights from the week were Junior Tim Hunt's work on the …


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