Tri State Area

I made two Apoxsee discs In the Apoxsee I put two Polaroid pictures inside. I also put some leather beads in there. There was a lot of math to do for Apoxsee it had to set for 24 hours. I mix two-part Apoxsee resin together. I had to do 40 of each mixture.

Hi my name is Clara in maker space I made a couple 3-D printed items the first one I made was a 3-D snake it is gray I had to find the design on printable‘s then I download it then I sent it to website. i’m connected to the printer it started printing it took about four hours to print this is my grey snake. I also made two other 3-D octopuses.

During the week that I was in the makersspace, I made a number of wooden circles as well as a crown.
On the first day, I knew I wanted to imprint one of my drawings onto something but I didn’t know what or onto what. I decided to use the laser cutter. I drew a mushroom onto a piece of paper took a picture of it, sent it to a computer, designed and cropped it, then my edited image to another computer to send it to the laser cutter and hence cut it out. This somehow took me all day and I burnt the side of it a little but it was pretty okay for my first time using the laser cuter.
For the second day, I wanted to make a wooden circle for my sister and it took forever to get right, I had to re-print her Luna Lovegood wooden circle multiple times. After my 4th print, it finally worked and she was so happy.
The next couple of days I was 3D designing my crowns on open SCAD. After I had finished my design I forgot to save it and had to completely re-design it. After making a few changes to my re-design I sent it to the 3D printer and it didn’t work so we had to wipe down the surface and re-print, after 8 hours I had a crown, and after a week of having my crown, I have neerly broken the entire thing. But it was so fun to make it, next time I will definitely make it stronger.

Basically Josh and I wanted to make a table but decided to make a practice one before hand. We had to pick out a design and had to figure out how we were going apply the epoxy, how to mix it and so on. We decided this was the best shape, plus it looked very neat.

During the quarter I learned many things. Some of the things I learned was my time management and how the smaller space effected my makerspace experience. With the smaller space it effected my learning flow. My actual makerspace projects included helping Harley with her skeleton and making a sticker. I do not have a picture of my sticker but it was a simple phrase “Smile ;)”. I decided to do that quote because I need to smile more.

During the quarter I’ve brainstormed what I’ve wanted to do for the future. And that includes: Fishing and Doctor Who merch. Which will most likely be stickers. I also want to expand my knowledge of the wood cutting machine.

The epoxy table we started had a small hole where the epoxy was uncured.

Our solution to this problem was to cover the hole with a small layer of new epoxy. I used the heat gun to smooth the epoxy out in the area and get the air bubbles out of it, but this was not a good idea. After a minute of using the heat gun, a large air bubble was made. This is because the air was going into the small hole and the area expanded with nowhere else for the air to go.

Blas and I decided that we were going to cut the bubble off and fill the area with new epoxy, but not use the heat gun this time.

We then sanded the new epoxy to get it level with the rest of the table.

Once the new epoxy was almost level with the other part of the table we use finer and finer grit sandpaper to polish the table in the hopes that it would look as shiny as the rest of the table. After this, we used the three mixtures in the picture to polish the table further.

In the end, the table looked like this.

This was what we thought would be the end of our table.

There was a tiny hole in the table originally that would be indefinitely sticky so my friend, Coen, thought it was a good idea to cover the whole with more epoxy. So I figured that wouldn’t be very challenging to pour a little drop of epoxy into this hole. Coen ended up using the heat gun. Everything was going well until a bubble formed and blew up the table. I don’t know the exact details but that’s what happened. I came down to the makerspace to see this devastating result. The reason this happened was because a layer on the bottom of this other layer wasn’t curing so it was still sticky and thanks to that hole it connected to the sticky layer and air bubbles would get in and it was bad for the table. This could have been avoided a multitude of ways with not trying to fix the hole, not using the air gun, or just using the right ratio of epoxy the pouring the layer. All in all, we learned from this and I had to correct it.

First we had to cut off all the extra epoxy that was bending to the best of our ability. Then we poured a new layer over the hole. When this cured I sanded it down to the same level of the original layer.

Once it was at the same level I had to sand it down multiple times each time with a finer and finer grit to eventually polish it to see if that would make it more clear.

Then I used the 3 different mixtures in the picture to try and make it more polished.

In the end it looked like this.

For the makerspace interim I helped build a work bench with Luke. To make the work bench very stable we drew out where each leg was going to be screwed in. We then added support beams underneath the table to minimize how much the table would shake when force is applied on it.

I started a second project which was building a gravel pit for the playground. The first thing I did was dig out a hexagon with sides that measured 4 feet long, and 5 inches deep. Then I started to cut out the sides for the hexagon. Since the box was going to be in a hexagon shape I needed to cut the ends of the wood at a 30 degree angle so the wood be nice and flush up against the wood poles at each corner.