Tri State Area

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 earth and amongst different cultures. After eliminating multiple medias, I ended up using paint pens to color the bouquet. After painting the flowers, I annotated them with the continent they represent.

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 saw then I laser cut my family’s farm logo on the front. Then I decided the holes that were going to drilled into the back to hold the magnets. Next I loaded the file up on the CnC machine and cut it out then I filled the holes the holes with a small amount of epoxy and place the magnet. I put the epoxy in so it would hold the magnets in place. Then it was complete. It is tied into the international interim because I am going to put Japanese style knives on it and display them also the knife with fish design is a knife made by morakniv which is a Swedish company.

here is a picture

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 phone was made in foreign countries such as China, Japan, and Taiwan, and then it was designed in Apple in California.

Title: Bridging Cultures: Crafting a Paper Flute Experiment

Recently, I decided to try something unique: making a flute out of three pieces of A4 paper. Inspired by creativity and innovation worldwide, I followed tutorials from different corners of the globe to fold the paper into shape.

However, when I tried to play it, all I heard was the sound of rustling paper. Despite this, the experience taught me valuable lessons about patience and the importance of trying new things.

While my paper flute didn’t turn out as expected, the journey reminded me of the universal language of creativity and the joy of exploring ideas across borders. It’s a small experiment, but it speaks volumes about the beauty of global collaboration and the endless possibilities that come with it.

For my makerspace project I decided to work on prayer hands that I left unfinished the last interim week. Searching on Pinterest for nearly five minutes I had come across a take on prayer hands -I myself am not religious, but if the art piece seems challenging in any sense at times it sparks my interest. Sketching and marking the art out took little to no time, shading is the only thing that is taking much longer than anticipated. I assume at some point I’ll have to take the board home to finish it, and if it is pretty enough I might just keep it at home instead of keeping it in the Makerspace like intended.

I decided to paint a tarot card on a piece of wood. I decided to do a tarot card because they originated in the 1400s in Italy. They were originally used to play a game called tarocchi in Italy, which was changed to be called tarot when it became popular in France.It was in the 18th century that tarot began to be used for guidance and fortune-telling. I chose to illustrate the card “The Lovers.” The Lovers represent relationships and choices. Its appearance in a spread indicates some decision about an existing relationship, a temptation of the heart, or a choice of potential partners. I took a different spin on it after seeing inspiration pictures from Mrs. Bryan, and illustrated the dynamic between addiction and humanity. I wasn’t able to finish it but the idea was for there to be a prescription bottle in the middle of the wood with a person trapped inside. I chose to do purple because purple represents strength, transformation, power, and royalty- which symbolizes recovery when dealing with addiction.

In this project I worked on a table of hexagons and cut it out with the CNC machine and then epoxied inside it. The next steps are going to be to use the CNC machine to cut out pockets where LED’s and touch sensors can go so whenever someone touches a hexagon it lights up with their hand. The project is international because the LED’s added later will be the colors of different countries flags.

During this interim, I am making a table with LED lights that light up when the censors on them are set off. As I said previously, this table is going to be an upgraded version of a table I helped make previously that did the same thing. In the photo below, the CNC machine is cutting out octagons, which will be filled with epoxy. When the LEDs light up, I will make them the colors of different countries flags.

This week, I learned a lot about how to use the different materials and technology in the makerspace. I followed Coen around and assisted him as he built a new table with epoxy, and watched Blas and Ruthie work on their own hexagon table. I learned about how to use different power tools and the CNC machine. I got a different makerspace blog post done over the course of the week to raise my grade and I was successful. woop woop! I learned a lot this week.