Final Projects – Harris Brancazio

Lantern Project For my Lanterns Project I decided to make a night mountain scape out of laser cut clear acrylic panes and a wooden laser cut kerf bent box. I also designed and 3d printed a base to mount the acrylic panes and house the led light strips I soldered together. The lantern is powered…

Lantern Project WIP – Harris Brancazio

So far I have had good success with my lanterns project, I began by making a small test kerf bent box, it worked great and I didn’t have to alter my tolerances at all. I then made a few small acrylic test circles to test the settings for cutting and engraving. I then cut out…

Altered Toys WIP – Harris Brancazio

2/20/2023 – So far on this project I have completed a small scale 3D print test to visualize the model in real life while achieving low print times and low filament usage. I had some issues with the small pin features snapping off, but tree supports worked great for printing my oddly shaped parts. Question:…

Altered Toys Design – Harris Brancazio

For my project I decided to create a model plane that is perpetually broken. As a child I bought and built many model planes and would always end up crashing and having to repair them. For this project I thought it would be funny to have a plane that comes broken and could never be…

Lantern Design – Harris Brancazio

For my lantern project I decided to go with a 3:2 aspect ratio kerf bent box that displays a night time mountain/moon scene. The housing will be made of wood and then the three inner panels will be clear or colored acrylic that is under lit with LED strip lights.One question I have is whether…

Harris Brancazio – Layered Motorcycle – WIP

For My Layers Project I originally was going to just make a wheel, but I decided to go beyond that and make a whole model of a motorcycle. One thing I would like feedback on is if I should make the rear of the frame more realistic? It will pose a few technical challenges but…

Drawing #1 – Harris Brancazio

I chose to draw a concept Formula SAE concept frame. The club is very important to me and is my main passion at WPI, so I want to create art related to it. The wheel will be cut out, and the frame will be engraved.

Harris Brancazio Introduction and Portfolio

I am Harris Brancazio, a born engineer from Cambridge MA that has always had a fascination with mechanical design, fabrication, and movement! Art most regularly fits into my life in the form of automotive design and manufacturing when designing and creating parts for my motorcycles or our teams racecar! I want to pursue a career…