Yarn kite

I made this yarn kite because I needed something to do and it was easy. I did it a long time ago at art camp so I knew how. You can make some pretty intricate ones, this one is simple though.

Terrariums

In Mackerspace, I have been experimenting with the minimal necessities and best ways to create a self-sustaining terrarium. I am using three different types of moss and experimenting with drainage. The six combinations I am trying are: The moss I am using takes a…

Makerspace Project

One day I got super bored and didn’t have a project to do. After spending nearly the entire time trying to find what to do, I eventually found two pencils and a random ball of light blue yarn and decided to use them to…

Fiat 500 seat upgrade

This week in maker’s space I worked on planning a seat upgrade for my car, which is a Fiat 500. The new seat is made in Italy and the company is Italian. It is a bucket seat and I want to upgrade to it…

Monuments from around the world,

I made some wooden replicas of some monuments from around the world. I used some scraps from the scraps pile and hot glued things together. I made the pyramids of Giza, the Chicago bean the Kilianan nuclear powerplant, and the Gagarin monument. Even the…

iPhone 5 teardown display

For the 2024 global interim I did a project I had been wanting to do for a while, a teardown display of an iPhone. Recently the Makerspace received a donation of several old Apple products, one of them being an iPhone 5. I spent…

Amazing Abaca ball

I made an abaca ball, which is from the Philippines. Abaca thread is made from an abaca plant. Abaca plants are native to the Philippines. It also takes several months to be ready for harvest. Long story short, I don’t have any abaca. You…

intercontinental bouquet painting

For my makerspace project, I am using an old white board to create a painting. The painting is of a bouquet of flowers. Specifically seven flowers, each one representing the symbolic flower of each continent. The bouquet is intended to symbolize unity amongst our…

Makerspace interim

For my Makerspace project I decided to make a chess board but that turn out so I switch over to a magnetic knife board with the wood that was for the chessboard. The first step to making was cutting the wood on the table…

iPhone 5 teardown diagram

I Helped Peter with his project which is this teardown diagram of an iPhone 5. I helped with some of the gluing of the frame, the teardown of the phone, and other various steps. The way that this project is international themed is the…