Asana bot

The little yogi robots that could(n’t)

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Design

The Asana Bot started life as a turnaround sketch for a graduate school class called Art Toy Design.

All 2D & 3D CAD was done in Vectorworks, 3D CAM was done in Roland’s proprietary SRP Player.

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Fabrication

The Asana Bot series is made of a walnut and baltic birch wood, milled on a Roland 4 Axis CNC Mill. The “Om” inlay on the chest is made of brass. Initial prototyping of the bots was done on a 3D printer with modeling clay.

After milling, the wood shell was sanded, and polished via a 3 stage lathe buffing mandrel.


TOOLKIT

  • Vectorworks

  • Adobe Illustrator

  • Roland 4-axis CNC Mill

  • So much sandpaper

BILL OF MATERIALS

  • Walnut

  • Baltic Birch

  • Brass

CATEGORIES

  • Woodworking

  • CAD & CAM

  • Rapid prototyping

  • 3D design

  • Digital fabrication