The "Man of Steel" category is one I started using last year when I went back to Tech School in my dotage. It made literal sense then, as I was taking a machining class. Metal was drilled, turned, cut.
This semester I am taking a Mechanical Design class. Not much metal involved but I did not feel like making a new category tag.
The last project of the semester had us working in small groups. We had to design a mechanism with four hinged bars. It had to move the final bar between a specified set of degree parameters. There was.....actual math involved. It had likely been 40 years since I tried to do calculations involving cosines.
In that area I don't think I was much help to the team, but I was somewhat more useful when it came time to outsource the non printed parts. My workshop contains anything you could use in a project of this sort and a handful of components from an old Vex robotics kit served us well. I also, not surprisingly can hammer out a technical report with ease. You just have to have a sense of how far you can push the humor. When one graph was put in upside down I decided to leave it there, explaining that we were anticipating the Australian market to be a major sales opportunity.
Anyway, here's the gizmo. The orange parts were all designed on the computer and 3D printed.
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You are having too much fun, amigo. The kids will benefit because you are trying mightily to stay ahead of them. Bravo Zulu.
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