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Manula Manufacturing

Why?

Perform manual manufacturing techniques to create a first prototype and test if your thought up concept works.
You can apply manual manufacturing in any phase of your design process, but it can be at least very effective after you created a concept and after you created your digital design for a machine.
Last, you can also use manual manufacturing to adapt your machine created structure.

Lecture Manual Manufacturing

Lecture Manual Manufacturing

Tools

Sharp Knife (hobby knife, utility knife, small kitchen knife, Canary knife)
Scissors
Tape (transparent, paper tape, washi tape, double sided, duct tape)
Glue
Staples
Ruler
Cutting mat/board

Paper

Wiki paper crafing

Origami

The Art of paper folding
Wiki Origami

Cube
Sphere 1, Sphere 2
Pyramid

Fold a box Diamond
Flower
Easy origami folding examples

Cutting and pasting

Cube
Sphere
Sphere
Sphere
Pyramid

Box patterns
Infinite Cube
String of cubes
Box in a box 1, Box in a box 2
Folding card
Spiral twist

Popup - Kirigami

Cube 1, Cube 2
Sphere
Pyramid

Bars
Graph
Stair graph
Patterns
City
Interactive pull-up parts

Cardboard

Cardboard tools
Canary knife
Pressfit joint patterns, patterns download from Fabacademy
Cardboard hat
Robot skull
Cardboard marble gate from protoype to machined example

Lego

Cube/casing
Sphere, Sphere 2
Pyramid

Servo casing
Cookie monster

3D print pen

3D doodler
You can make anything

Wood

Figuresaw/jigsaw

Clay

Making your won clay from floor