Halberd research

The halberd weapon’s origins can be traced to the Swiss armies of the 14th and 15th centuries. The weapon consists of an ax blade balanced by a pick with an elongated pike head at the end of the staff. It was usually about 1.5…

Halberd

Based on a picture I found on google, I slightly modified its length, shape and outlined it. Then I set the length, width and thickness of the halberd, and then divided a long piece of wood into 3 pieces and combined them with wood…

Telescope Phone Holder

This stand is designed to securely hold a phone on top of a microscope in order to get a picture of the image that the microscope is portraying. The three rings are created to perfectly fit according to the measurements of the microscope head….

Coen and Blas Resin Table

We created a table using two separate pieces of wood joined by resin. The table took a few months of makerspace elective time to create due to the time resin takes to dry and the amount of extra details that were needed to be…

Parthenon History Project

For this project, I made a replica of the Parthenon with openSCAD. This was the first time that I have made anything with the 3D printer. The things that were difficult while making this project was coding the shapes and coding them to make…

Greek and Persian Chess; a PECULIAR project

Originally I was going to make this game into chess but that became a PeCuLiAr project. It was hard because I was planning to make one side of the pieces represent Greeks and the other side was going to represent Persians. The problem was…

Painting a Birdhouse; a PECULIAR project!

At the beginning of the year Alex and I made a list of ideas of makerspace projects we could do. One of the ideas we came up with was to make and paint a birdhouse. We were originally going to make a bird house…

Bird House process

For the past quarter Ella and I have been working on this birdhouse somebody made the birdhouse but me and Ella took it in too our own hands and decided to paint the bird house. The process was we first painted the whole bird…

Adaptive/Nuva armor and Enhancements to Toa Mata

This project aims to modify the 2001 Toa mata to have better articulation and access to all of their forms while retaining the base mata/nuva type body with all of the functions that come with. However, this is mainly about the new masks for…