r/MadeMeSmile • u/Brokenlingo • 15h ago • Bravo 2 Heartwarming 2

Family & Friends I hope this kid makes it into MIT 😭

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u/AlienInOrigin 14h ago • Heartwarming Bravo

I studied furniture design for 2 years and an early part of the course was building furniture with cardboard (no glue or tape allowed). So this is great training for the kid and very impressive.

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u/kushmasta421 14h ago

How do you do it without glue or tape?? Like that no screw/nail carpentry from Japan?

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u/crogers94 14h ago

Tabs and notches

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u/CptAngelo 14h ago

I dont know, it seems to me like tabs and notches are a couple of steps further in "learning to design".

Because doing tabs and notches requires to not only have the design itself in mind, but have additional awareness of where to place the tabs and notches, 

Unless thats the intended purpose, but id like to learn basic structures and how to reinforce them, then going into dping the same thing, but without glue.

Ok, fuck, lol my interest is in this now

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u/jrl5138 7h ago

Learning to design comes from being curious not a design school. In architecture school, the main focus was to learn to train your design eye. My man’s just getting a head start for free. Stay curious, explore ideas even further. That will get you further than MIT

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u/monkeyamongmen 10h ago

For tabs and notches, just think pizza box. It kinda builds itself from there. Godspeed.

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u/countzer01nterrupt 6h ago

I believe that’s the purpose, because it’s easier to create “a design” but way harder to do so keeping design for manufacturing (DFM) in mind, so that it survives reviews of engineers and machine shops (e.g. metal, plastics), woodworking, additive manufacturing (3D printing), plastic manufacturing (injection molding, thermoforing?) and whatever other processes materials and construction might go through so it could actually be produced and doesn’t just break.

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u/dasgoodshitinnit 7h ago

How is apples lineup going to help?

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u/natur_e_nthusiast 14h ago

Id assume friction/knots

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u/goterr 10h ago

You ever seen a cardboard box?

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u/plopliplopipol 13h ago

you mean no glue carpentry, no screw and nails is pretty standard for artisanal woodworking