Daniel Massimino


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Hello! I’m Daniel, a PhD student at MIT in Mechanical Engineering. I am currently working in the Fabrication Integrated Design Lab (FIDL). I am investigating using glass additive manufacturing as a building material in partnership with Evenline Inc.  

I am broadly interested in the development of new construction materials. This interest stems from the combination of my BS in Civil Engineering from Columbia University, five years as a Boeing manufacturing engineer at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility, and my current studies as a mechanical engineer.







Desktop Lathe


2023 • Class project


Class project for 2.72, Elements of Machine Design. As a team, we designed and built a desktop lathe with a hot-swappable tool post. Different tool posts for different materials were mounted on a kinematic coupling that could be removed and re-indexed. The machine was accurate to 0.01” and repeatable to 0.002”.
View of the assembled lathe.
Top down view of the flexure x-drive system for our lathe. Also shown is our tool changer system with separate steel and aluminum tools.
Close up view of the lathe.

Contributions:
FEA structural analysis on the flexure cross-slide. Machining some components.  Accuracy and repeatability measurements of final performance.



Team:
Cat Arase, Quang Kieu, Levi Gershon, Aditya Mehrotra, Qifan Yu


Final report: link


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