Skills Bot (skills based resource)

This resource is designed to teach a range of traditional and modern manufacturing skills which combine to make a desktop ‘gadget’.
You may be limited by time or resources and it would be difficult to cover all of these skills in depth during KS3 or even KS4.
There are 12 different skills or processes here, but there is the potential for many more to be introduced, incorporated or addressed. They cover:

1. Pewter casting
2. Vacuum forming
3. Marking out wood
4. Shaping and drilling wood
5. Cutting a knuckle joint
6. Forming metal rod
7. Vinyl cutting
8. 3D CAD and 3D printing
9. Cutting a housing joint
10. Threading rod
11. Thermoforming (line bending)
12. Laser cutting
13. Assembling the Skills Bot
    The resource contains instructions for the whole project as well as individual PDF presentations that can be projected in class or printed as handouts.
    Also included are individual technical drawings for each components to make class hand outs easier to produce.
    There is limited design work with this resource, although there are opportunities to customise or personalise some elements. It is intended to cover a range of skills that are commonly used in Design and Technology.