Some of you may have heard about GridFinity. It's a 3D printed organization system that can be completely customized. It was created by Zack Freedman and is Open Source. It has been integrated into Autodesk Fusion so creating custom bins to hold tools and hardware is very easy. What continues to be more difficult is …
25-26 Week of 4/6-4/10
One more week until the April break. The upcoming time off will be a nice way to relax before the push to the end of the year. Before that happens, however, here is some of the work happening in the shop right now. Senior Echo Valdez-Melgar '26 is working on some gifts for friends and …
Mr. L Shop Smarts #012
Sometimes these Shop Smarts will be directed by the work our students are currently pursuing. In the shop two students have been working with silicone and 3D prints. There are a few different ways to use silicon and 3D printing and I thought many of you might have interest in these ideas. First, you can …
25-26 Week of 3/30-4/3
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 …


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