Laser Cut Truck: Market Day 2025

Laser Cut Market Day Project (Seniors) Construction/Dump Truck.

As we approach Market Day 2025 not only do we have the students from our classroom working on products and items some of our senior students are doing likewise.

One of the groups is featuring the school laser cutter which has been used to produce these trucks.   They have been cut from MDF/Bamboo 5mm composite wood.   Cutting each of the trucks takes just over half an hour.   Students did not design this truck the file for it was sourced online.    As one of the main components of our market day is personalisation - we have designs where there a logo or a name is designed into aspects of the truck.

The truck needs to be wood glued once the component parts have been cut out and removed from the sheet of MDF.   Some of the truck has to be held in place with masking tape until the glue has set.

The dimension of the laser cut was 400mm long from the front to the back of the print, is 130mm wide at the base of the bed and 200mm high at the mid point.    

The project could potentially have some additional features added to it via some of our other school technology such as the sticker machine.    The wheels are currently not working off an axel they are being held in place by glue - it could potentially for the students to investigate further.   We also have the ability to produce additions to the truck using the 3D Printer.

As a long term project we also have the ability to produce rubber tyres using the 3D Printer if we wanted to look at extending our students further.   Currently the latch on the back of the bed of the truck works and can be fastened and unfastened.