Abhiram Rachamadugu

Machani Robotics

Role
Intern
Status
worked on site
Organisation
Machani Robotics
Dates
Jul 2022 – Aug 2022
Place
Bengaluru
A 5-axis mill cutting an aluminium block held in a vice on a rotary trunnion table, coolant spraying off the end mill.
Aluminium on the 5-axis, under flood coolant.

What it is

Six weeks in a robotics shop in Bengaluru, the summer after school ended.

What I did

I upgraded the 3D print farm to run engineering materials — polycarbonate and nylon rather than PLA — which is less about the filament than about everything around it: enclosure temperature, drying, nozzle and hot end capability, and bed adhesion that survives a material that shrinks. I also ran a 5-axis CNC mill machining aluminium robot parts.

This was the first time I worked in a shop where the machines were somebody’s livelihood rather than my hobby, and it is where I stopped thinking of manufacturing as a step after design.

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