LED Light Show

I wanted to learn how to program using the raspberry pi and learn how to solder using our new electronics bay. I started off with multiple different ideas but ended up making a LED light display. I took apart Christmas lights to get the…

Florida Map: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Florida Map: Their Eyes Were Watching God We just finished reading the book Their Eyes Were Watching God in english class. We had to do a project over the book. My group decided to laser cut a map of Florida which is where the…

Tablet: Gilgamesh

Our history teacher gave us an art project after we finished reading the Epic Of Gilgamesh. I wanted to use the laser in some way and was trying to think of ways to use it. The book was originally written on rock tablets. I…

Wine Glasses

The Makerspace Business Club is a new club that was started this year. The students who sign up for it have to come up with products to develop, make, and then sell. My idea was to make custom laser etched wine glasses. On Grandparents…

Coasters

To make the coasters, I first design something on the computer that is related to the set I am making. For example, when I was making the New Zealand coasters, I did some research on their national icons. When I found something, I would…

Model Room: Maus

This is a model room of the book Maus 1. Our class had to do a project on the book after we finished reading it. My group decided that we wanted to do something with the makerspace so we decided to make a model…

Hydroponics

Copying one code from a Raspberry Pi to another. Trying to set up a second hydroponics system. #!/usr/bin/env python import RPi.GPIO import time import sys # The Raspberry Pi pins used to control the power strips setPin = 3 RPi.GPIO.setmode(RPi.GPIO.BCM) runTime = int(sys.argv[1]) timeUnit…

Tetrahedra and Icosahedra

This is Blas’s icosahedra and tetrahedra set that was made as a math project. Then he made it for a present. Later on the Makerspace Business Club started selling them. A tetrahedron has four sides each side has a triangle face. With that in…

Sound Box

Organizer Update

Over the past two days I have been designing and lasering my organizer box. When I first tried to put it together the shelves that I added did not align with the cutout places it was supposed to fit in. So, I redesigned the…