Tri State Area

For the A.M. Makerspace interim, Miles, Liam, Peter, and I decided to make a potato cannon. We used a PVC tube, a grill ignitor, and hairspray. Once we glued the PVC tube together, Liam and peter drilled a hole at the bigger tube where the hairspray would go. Next we glued onto the grill ignitor and tested if we could see a spark. A spark was not made, so we found out that we had to ground the spark. We put a nail into the ignition chamber and tied a wire which ran into the ground. Then we tested if it worked, it didn’t. Next we took out the nail and connected a wired into the grill igniter, which created a much bigger spark. The launcher needed a hole to put hairspray in we drilled a hole next to the ignition, big enough to fit a cork into it. Then we tested it, and it didn’t work, but it did light a tablecloth on fire, and it made a big boom but it didn’t fire the apple.

Miles, Damien, Peter, and I created a potato cannon in the maker space for this interim. First, we took pvc pipes (60 mm diameter and 90 mm diameter) and connected them with pvc concreat and a connector. We then attached a cap to the end. When the potato is in the barrel, it creates a seels where the propellent (in this case, hairspray) can be ignited. The way we ignited the hairspray was an automatic electric grill ignitor. The ignitor works by creating an electrical shock. Next, we drilled two holes into the propellent chamber, one on the side for the ignitor—the other hole on the back for the hairspray. Finally, we sealed the second hole with a cork to ensure the propellent didn’t escape the chamber. Saddly the cannon did not work, and we suspect there wasn’t enough oxygen in the chamber, therefor the perpellent could not light. But after we removed the apple (a substitute for a potato) and removed the cork, it was possible to ignite the hairspray. We hope we can try again in the future and make a fully functional cannon.

First, I found the image on the internet. Then, I went to Corel and removed some of the details by pressing the smooth button. After that, i saved it as an svg and put the file into a folder. Then, I saved the folder onto a USB drive and put it on the computer connected to the CNC machine. After that, I put the folder from the USB drive into the computer. Then, I put the file on the Inventables website. Then, I found the wood big enough for it and clamped it in, but there was a spot we needed a clamp, but the clamp was too short, so I just screwed it in. After that, I started printing it. Finally, after it was done printing, I started to sand the kantana so that I wouldn’t get splinters, but I still got some splinters.

During my time in Makerspace I built a potato cannon with Damien, Liam, and Miles. We first started out with designing the cannon in a process in which we oversimplified greatly, turns out we didn’t need any of this valves and tubes that we bought as we just had to spray the hairspray into the chamber directly. After we figured that out, we bought the PVC pipes and glue needed for the barrel and chamber and assembled them the next day, using the saw to cut the pieces to the right size.

The next few days we worked on getting the ignition source to create a spark and light the hairspray, this was a challenge because we genuinely had little clue on how electricity worked and fussed around with different wires and grounding the cannon. In the end we figured out a way that worked quite well.

On our last day we worked on actually testing the cannon, but before that we taught the lower school about our cannon was gonna work, while telling them not to mess with it, Liam set a table on fire. After that unplanned test we stuffed an apple down the barrel and filled it with hairspray and nothing happened. So later in the day we did another test fire when the apple had rotted enough to fall into the combustion chamber, this time it worked (kinda) the cannon made a loud boom and some of the apple flew out, turns out, the apple was creating a vacuum inside the chamber not letting air get in and set on fire. When trying to do a second demonstration at the end of the day it failed to light and the apple fell out and rolled down into the sewer.

In the end we managed to make a semi working potato cannon that could make noise and create fire. If we had more time we would have added some vents for air to get in and allow for an ignition. Along with doing more testing and adding some cosmetic features.

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.