Tri State Area

I decided to do A project based on a real picture of the best rapper in the whole world, whose name is Toosii. This project practically took me about two weeks because I was so exited about it. Inspiration from Maya. Also credit to Lucia and lily for helping me with the background.

Since this is my senior year, I wanted to commemorate my final basketball season. We received a varsity basketball sweatshirt this year with our last name and number on the back. I decided to add “Senior Captain” on the back of mine as well. Below are pictures of the design on the computer and printed out, but not yet on the sweatshirt.

Starley and I have played volleyball together for three years. Through the years we developed an inside joke of dabbing each other up and shouting “Money!” right before a play. Sometimes it was discreet and at others, we yelled it out across the gym. This was our final year playing together and left it all out on the court. During our final game, we smiled at each other with tears in our eyes as we said our final “Money”. To remember the memory we decided to but our own design of “Money!” on the back of this year’s volleyball shirts. Below are pictures from the designing phase.

In the past week of Geometry, I have been learning/experimenting with a LED grid. I have created a few codes that are open for use. Here is a GitHub link with what I have done so far.

https://github.com/l4589/ledGrid

Part of the process:    

For the next semester, my goal is to make a car decal for my mom and her business. I would make it big enough so that on the road, it can be read, and that it is obvious enough for everyone to see as she drives by. I’ll use the same process I used for the previous decal project I did with Brooke and Joy, but the actual content will differ. This will likely take me multiple tries to make sure it’s the size and format my mom wants for her truck. A problem I predict I will run into is whether or not the actual decal is durable enough to stay on her truck. After I finish this project, I’ll see if she wants any further decals for any other purpose.

Due to our new morning meeting presentations, Doc and I created a soapbox for the more enthusiastic topics. 24in*14in*10in

However, in the show, there is one character in particular who can usually be found occupying a door, a comic relief character (who is also some sort of eldrich abomination (or something of the sort)). That character is Hooty

I have decided to give him flesh.

The website: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4744918

The model was made by omfoltz. The Hooty I printed is one of three variations of the model, this one having eyes and a closed beak. I scaled it down, so it is a bit smaller than it normally should be. Over all, pretty cool print, though I wish I had made it larger.

This is the Animation ^

I started out with this concept sketch. From there, l used the app Clip Studio Paint Pro and eyeballed each frame. In the app the frames were called cells. I started with the outline of the head movements, which were achieved partially by accident. However, The turning movements were definitely intentional, and the rest worked out well in the end. I proceed to add a neck, thin some shoulders. Around this time, I noticed the head kinda deformed a bit at the end like how a jaw would. I thought It would be neat to turn it into a mouth and from there, It turned into a transformation sequence. I wanted to add more frames, but as it turns out there is a 25 frame limit on my specific version of Clip Studio Paint. I had to work within these limitations to get the project done. About half of the project was actually done with a drawing pad, the other half being me using my computer’s touchpad. This made getting the neck and body right a difficult task. At the end of the project, I went over and corrected some mistakes with the drawing pad to make the body look more like a body and less like a bunch of disproportionate scribbles. I also added effects to emphasize the zoom in of the camera, and a cool flashing eye. The animation is my first complete sequence of animation ever, and I have definitely learned some new things over the course of this project.

For the makerspace interim I helped Luke build his table. I helped him bring in materials, stain the wood, and the actual assembly of the table. I also helped dig a hole outside for a sand box John was making. Me and Adam did start a project towards the end of the interim which was making a chess board. We made the chess board on the computer but never got the time to print it.

^ Luke’s table

I learned a lot of stuff from laser cutting wood to wiring a motor. Hi my name is August and I built a remote control car. The first thing I did was get the materials for my project. The materials that I got were a breadboard, a raspberry pi Pico, a stepper motor, a control panel, wires, and a wooden board. The whole thing cost about 11 dollars in total. Next, on my first day, I laser cut my wooden board to make a skeleton for my project. I made an outline on a piece of paper and then I outlined it on Corel draw, which is a website used for laser cutting.

Then on my second day, I searched the internet about how to wire a raspberry pi Pico to a stepper-motor. I had a difficult time finding a video to show me how to do it, but in the end, it turned out okay. On the third day, I looked for the wires and the raspberry pi Pico. This took a long time because it was my first time trying to find the materials in the room. Finally on the fourth day, I welded my raspberry pi Pico to the breadboard, connected my skeleton together, and wired my raspberry pi Pico to the stepper motor and the control panel.

I didn’t finish it because I got confused and I needed a lot of help. I mostly need help with coding the stepper motor to the remote control. Also, I need to wire three more raspberry pi Pico to three stepper motors. In the end, I learned a lot and had lots of fun doing this. I believe I can finish this amazing project next interim.