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…

Ancient Greek Spear (Dory)

The Ancient Greek Spear known as the dory was one of the most essential weapons for the Greeks. The type of soldier who used this spear was known as the Hoplite, which is a class of soldier in the army. These warriors were citizen…

LED Sword

In this project, I used an old sword I had made using a CNC machine(A machine that cuts large pieces of certain materials controlled by a computer), as well as an LED strip attached to a Raspberry Pi, to learn how to program the…

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,…