Tri State Area

After selling our first table, Coen and I set off on another mission to create a new table. We started with finding the idea. Once we did, we began to saw the wood into the pieces necessary. We glued the pieces together which ended up being warped. “In order to work with the bent wood, we needed a lot of clamps to keep in in a stable position while pouring the epoxy. Once enough layers were there, the clamps were unnecessary. Once all the pouring was finished a problem happened.

I learned about gluing small pieces of wood together and how they warp. As well as how to get each individual piece of wood to be the correct length to create the correct design.

Overall the project went well with a few minute flaws.

I made this flower by looking up a template of a flower from Minecraft. Then after that I pasted it and locked the image and made an outline of the squares. Then I laser cut and and Engraved the lines. Then I colored the squares with the color they had on it. Then glued some together with hot glue and finished.

This is my Viking axe I am making. I started by looking up an image of one then locking the image and free traced it and fixed it afterwards. Then stretched a little of it to make it go down more. Then I used the cnc machine to cut my design into the wood. After that I filled the holes I made with and and wanted to fill the lines with a gold epoxy to make it look good and add a cool vibe to it. Then it started leaking so I just put epoxy on the top of it and it turned out amazing. I just got rid of the epoxy on the side and left the top. I just have to sand it and get a pile to attach the axe to.

This is my shield I started awhile ago and I took two images of dragons and just put them on both sides and engraved it on the wood. I sanded it and put a stain on it to make it look a little bit darker. Now I am painting the dragons and have to add something in the middle that I 3d printed and make a thing to hold the shield on the back.

I spent the week just helping out people with projects that required some extra help. For example I did the measurements for a axe he made or attempted to make. I needed to do the measurements to calculate how much poxy he needed to fill up his axe. I also cut a Minecraft cake that turned out super well with no flaw’s whatsoever. I moved a bunch of makerspace projects into the lunchroom for people to gaze apon. I gave some of my opinions to help zoe with her art work. That is about the end of the list of things I did this week.

For this makerspace interim, I decided to take the time to finish my skeleton that I started at the beginning of the year. I had a few difficulties with the black paint; I used all of the matte black paint so thankfully Doc bought a new one only to soon find out that it didn’t match the one I already had on there. I took a few hours just to completely repaint all and finish the finer details. Thank god it’s now completed and I’m honestly very impressed with how it turned out!

This was my first time doing makerspace for an interim. It was soooo much fun and I did a lot. My main project was a resin table. It is going to be clear with records inside of it. I wanted to finish it during this time but the resin got delayed in shipping so it didn’t come in time. I created a mold out of wood. This was my first time using the saw and drill. I covered the mold with this tape called “tuck tape” so the resin wouldn’t stick to the wood. This project was fun even though I didn’t get to finish it. I can’t wait to finish it!

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5518084

The rocktopus is one of many variations of the thinverse octopus modle, being single print. The amount of variations of the roctopus itself is rather large on the site. This is the version with the sprite glasses designed as a keychain.

The glasses were too flat, and were mangled upon printing. The rest of it turned out fine though. The way the tenticals work is by having gaps in the print so the peices dont stay static, while having joints to keep them in place. There is a bar running through each segment of the octopus tenticals, with a gap of space behind it. The other end of the segment (save for the tips) features a circular clip thing that holds onto the bar, and can move around the bar to get some angles verticaly and horizontaly. Over all, a pretty cool design.

For this project, I found this creator on youtube who made single print transformers: Talmage Madsen.

The channel link: https://www.youtube.com/c/TalmageMadsen/videos

I chose Kombitron, who took the vehical mode of Volkswagen Bus.

For the robot mode, the arms are attached via a ball/socket joint with an indent on the top, attached to hinges on the torso for some backwards butterfly joint movement. the legs and head are attached to the body via a hinge joint. The robot gets printed out in a T pose, with the roof of the car (the sides of the arms facing the plate. Due to the lack of connections and the specialised cavities in the print, the robot is able to move and transform.

In vehical mode, it does look like the Volkswagon, which is pretty cool.

This is the video from the creator of Kombitron of the transformation. There are more videos on the other single print transformers he has made on his channel.

This quarter Blas and I have been working on our second table. We poured the epoxy and sanded the sides of the table. We came across a problem after pouring the epoxy. The epoxy was not mixed correctly and in a small part of the table the epoxy did not cure completely. To solve this problem we heated the area with a heat gun and wiped isopropyl alcohol over the area. This took off a little of the non cured epoxy but not enough. We have not came up with a solution to fixing this problem yet.

Uncured area of the table top,

One of the projects that I have made is a triangular puzzle. I made a design with many different sizes of rectangles and patterned them randomly. Then I split the pattern into 16 smaller triangles that together made one big triangle and left a border around the big triangle to hold the puzzle pieces. I overlapped some of the patterns onto the border so that you know where to put the smaller triangles and the puzzle is solvable. I wrote the number of where the pieces go on the back of the smaller triangles so that if it is not solved you know where the pieces should go.