Educational manufacturing toolkit, TU Delft
What’s the best way to learn about manufacturing? Hands-on, of course! Unfortunately, manufacturing machines are often expensive, bulky, and potentially dangerous without proper safety training. Especially in an educational context can this limit hand-on learning.
The problem
At TU Delft, education in manufacturing techniques is mostly limited to lectures and videos. Students miss the real-life feel of working with machines. That makes sense. The equipment is large, costly, and hard to house in a teaching environment. It also demands safety training that is not practical for large student groups, and materials are too expensive for regular hands-on use.
Safety
Expensive
One function only
Size
The solution
An affordable toolkit designed with the goal of educating. It allows students to assemble different tabletop manufacturing machines and create their own parts! Students can configure the machine themselves. Currently three configurations are developed but I'm currently developing other variants.
