One of our recent projects was for a welding competition hosted by ESAB, where our team first had to submit an essay to make into the semi finals, then we received new welders, equipment, and a bunch of random parts which we had to incorporate into a welding project to win the overall competition. All of us got to use the skills we were best at to help with the project. Most days of the competition, I had to both record and weld, which is pretty hard to do both at once. Many times, it was set up camera, check composition, weld, and then repeat. I got to do a lot of 3-D design work (this is the only part I didn't include in the video because I forgot to record myself working on it).
One of my favorite parts of this project was getting to design a functional welding station from scratch. I use a program called Fusion 360 to design all of my projects now. The model looks so close to the real project, there were some design changes during the fabrication process, but that was to be expected as this drawing had to be conceptual because of the short time frame we had to build the project. With our procrastination, we designed, built, and documented this entire project in about a month and a half, which by no means was an easy feat.
Here is the video we made to showcase our project and go through the process of creating our welding station from start to finish. While our team did not win the grand prize, we still came out with a great welding table for future generations to use! Enjoy the video! Feedback is greatly appreciated.
Overall this project went pretty well, the video turned out alright, the color grading could have gone over a little better, but I was very crunched on time when I was making it, so I had to rush the grading, I know, not the best idea, but it had to be done. I was able to make the entire edit in less than 12 hours. We even went over the time limit. Sadly we did not win this competition, but it improved all of our welding and we did all wind up winning ESAB welding masks, which are sooo much nicer than the cheap, old, harbor freight brand helmets we used to use (Not that they didn't work, though).
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