Tri State Area

The initial post about stickers leads to this project. We (Joy, Ruthie, and I) want to make a decal that represents our friendship while having individual characteristics that represent us individually. We already know that we will use the vinyl cutter and computer to design the decal however, we have never used this material before and I am curious to see if there is any difference. The stickers post can show our current ideas of what we would like our design to look like.

If our decals turn out to be durable, then we will suggest the idea to the Maker Space business as a new product of inventory. As we continue to try different ideas, colors, designs, etc. the possibility for customizable decals will become more specific and precise.

Our first project is a design of what we hope to do in our second project. The goal is to make decals for our cars, but since we are currently lacking the appropriate material, we decided to try different designs with normal sticker material. Since making different stickers and designs can all be done in-house on the computer, it makes it convenient to try different looks. We are anticipating our final design and decal will be made next quarter. Below you can see our current ideas on what we want our decals to look like.

CorelDRAW is the program we used to design our first sticker and we will continue to use it to change and update our current design as well as make others. We used CutStudio to cut the actual design out on the vinyl.

After looking at our pictures below, it can be seen that our original choice of font is not a good choice because when it is printed out so tiny, the letters lose their pattern and happen to lose some essential parts of the letters (part of the Rs). To fix this, we could either change our font or make our text bigger. Regardless, we need to change the design to make it print out more efficiently.

We also didn’t originally plan for the sticker to be inverted, this would also be a change in the design on CorelDRAW.

Images will appear at a later date.

Another project that I will be working on (with Alex of course!) is making a painting to hang on the wall in makerspace. Originally we thought of painting on a wall, but we decided against it because of Doc’s vertical decorating choices and in case the makerspace moves to a different room/building in the future. The idea for the painting is that it will be a sort of logo for the makerspace program. Because it’s called makerspace the people in it should obviously be called makerspace-tronauts (haha get it?) so in the center of our painting will be Lily’s design of the makerspace-tronaut which is an astronaut helmet. Then in the background we will paint the solar system and other space related things like a comet and alien. The background color will be black and we will use white for stars and constellations. I would upload the sketch we have, but unfortunately I don’t have it with me. Alex and I are also debating whether or not to write “Littyspace” on the painting. Alex thinks it’s really funny and I do too, but it also seems like it’s a micro-trend.

First I made a bunch of different shapes and made them in the shape of a car. Then I put the shapes in cutting program and then clicked print the sticker came out nice. It was easy to cut because it was a simple design.

For my first blog post I decided to make a custom yugioh card. First I found a yugioh card template and then a picture of squid-ward and put the picture inside the yugioh card template. Then I put the wood in the laser machine and let it cut out. The first one didn’t turn out well so I changed the contrast of the image. And printed it again it came out a lot better.

I have already planned what I want to do for next quarter and the interim. I’m going to make a coffee table for my room made out of resin but with vinyl records inside of it. I want to do this because I love music and it’s a big part of my life. I need a coffee table and I had a hard time finding exactly what I wanted so I thought why not just make my dream coffee table? It’s going to be three feet by two feet and half an inch thick. My only worry is that it’s not going to be thick enough to support itself. I could make it thicker but resin is expensive so I don’t want to buy too much. But I gotta do what I gotta do to make the DREAM!

This quarter during makerspace I worked on creating a painting from the game Minecraft in real life. First I chose the painting I wanted to make which was just this guy running. It’s basically just pixel art so it’s not too hard. The hardest part I found to be was getting the plywood the right size. I had never used the saw before so Doc had to help me with that. I haven’t actually finished the painting yet but I’m really excited to get it done and hang it in the makerspace!

This semester I have been really bad at actually going to makerspace because of my other workload for school. For next quarter I would really like to try my hand at the embroidery machine because I haven’t yet. I think I may try embroidering a crewneck or a bag. I’ve also thought that sewing and embroidery especially with clothes is so cool and I would love to learn how to do it. I think having this project idea will give me something to look forward to and get me down in the makerspace more and out of my makerspace rut!

For my future projects I have amazing ideas that would include the maker-space walls it’s actually an idea that me and my partner in crime ella we’re gonna start at the previous school so we decided it would be fun if we continued the idea at this school. The process of what we were are gonna paint is to discussed.