Keychain Thing

This is a key chain that I made from fancy wood that I got from Dr. Urbano. First, I took the Japanese character from Google and outlined traced it. Then I overlapped the traced image over the original and shaped it to match the…

Hydroponics Tower

For this project the main things I did were help design and build the actual structure of the hydroponics tower and code the programs that run the pumps and the LEDs that run with them. I spent the majority of the time making multiple…

Hydroponics System

For this project I created a fully functional hydroponics system with the ability to connect and control the pumps from your device. The hydroponics system has a lot of advantages over the traditional greenhouse. Some advantages are the sturdiness of the frame, accessibility of…

Allison’s Hang board

I spent all of the fall and winter working on this project. I decided to created a hang board, which is used for rock climbing training. It is a piece of wood with different depths in it that you hang from and it trains…

Embroidery

I was asked to learn how to use the embroidery machine. I said I was up for the challenge. It took me about a week to really understand it, but I still have a bunch to learn about it. If anyone wants to learn,…

Graduation and Birthday Presents

I spent this quarter making two different things: a wooden sign thing with some designs and words on it for my sister’s graduation, a continuation of last quarter, and an epoxy birthday present. The epoxy thing is the picture below.

Making A Robot That Can Play The Piano

This is the robot that Jace and I made for robotics class. I split the time spent on this project between Makerspace and Robotics. We did most of the coding and stuff involving software during Robotics and did most of the actually building and…

PVC Pipe Instruments

Our music teacher would like us to make some PVC Pipe Instruments. https://makezine.com/projects/pvc-pipe-instrument/ provides a good introduction, as does https://frugalfun4boys.com/how-to-make-pvc-pipe-xylophone-instrument/ This should make for a good physics project–calibration of the length/frequency relationship would be nice challenge.

Keycap Project

In this project I am working on a keycap. A keycap is the top part of a key on a keyboard. Mine specifically is used on a mechanical keyboard. Originally, the I ordered the supplies for creating the mold which didn’t work out later…

3D Printing

This semester I don’t have a 3D printed product yet, but I have learned some basic graphics usage. square(size = [x, y], center = true/false); Scale([x/100, y/100, z/100]) circle(x); // circle(x, $fn = ); // d: the diameter of the circle $fa: the smallest…