Hexagonal Tiles

For my part of the World Wide Technology project (WWT), we made a physical aspect. I did this part of the project with Blas and Ava. We first used a hexagonal outline from a prior project to get the main outline for our project. We made many different sizes before we got the right one. We then needed a way to connect the tiles to a board. The way that we did this was that we made another tile the same size as all the other ones except the backs have a hole in them that we put a magnet inside of it. We handed the fronts of the tiles with everyone’s names on them to everyone. There were many ways that one could decorate their tiles, I used epoxy. Some people used the laser cutter and most people used colored pencils. Once we got the tiles back I connect the back parts of the tiles with magnets to the front tiles that were colored on.

We cut out acrylic from the Covid dividers for the back of the base. I put magnets inside wholes in the acrylic so that the tiles could connect to it. Then we put the bases on the main board.