Resin Wall Art

MY FAILED ATTEMPTS For my interim project, I made a piece of art to hand up on my bedroom wall. While making my wall art I learned what different ways work and do not work for sealing open space to then fill with resin….

Lightning Bolt

For my project, I made a wooden lightning bolt surrounded by LED lights.  Steps: First I drew out my lightning bolt and transferred it to the computer, then cut them out with the laser cutter. The next step was to glue together the bolts…

How to Sand Epoxy

When epoxy does need sanding its best to use wet sanding. (Wet Sanding- is when, typically water or any other liquid, is applied to the sandpaper leaving less residue on the surface leading to longer use of the paper. Epoxy is a very hard…

How to make an epoxy table mold

For my maker space interim research project, I choose to research epoxy table molds and how to make them. I did this because while Blas and I were making our table we used tape on the edges thinking that all the epoxy would not…

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…