Tri State Area

One of the projects I chose to take on this semester was a series of artwork for coasters/ornaments called “Emotional Coasters.” They are a series of cartoon drawings of different emotions, the circle-cut of the coaster being the head. Below is the one that is the emotion supposed to represent “confused.” All I have to do is take a picture of the drawing and trace it onto procreate for clear lines, and then upload to Corel Draw and use the laser cutter to cut it out. 🙂

I got the 13.5 inch, 3:2 ratio display (smaller display), laptop from Framework. Through the website, I was able to customize the processor, Wifi card, storage, operating system, and memory. When choosing different operating systems, their are many that can be used for different functions. I used a Linux operating system because it is free and it worked for what I wanted it to. The easiest Linux to install for me was Fedora. Fedora is one a type of Linux operating system better suited for programming. The process took multiple tries with the newer wifi card not being supported by other Linux flavors. Multiple operating systems can be installed, but for school work this one serves its purpose.

The positives of the laptop so far, are the easily changeable ports. If I want an HDMI instead of a DP port I could easily press one button and its changed. The laptop is easily up-gradable and easy to put together. There are QR codes inside next to each component that are easily scannable. The laptop is light weight and has many features that I still have yet to explore.

The main negative of the laptop would be that it doesn’t keep charge very well. This could just be some of my settings for the computer but otherwise the laptop has done what I wanted it to.

For a science fair project in another class, I had to make aluminum wings to complete a flying trajectory. I designed and cut the wings out on the CNC machine using a 1/8″ bit. It took a few times to create the right dimensions and a trial run in order to cut out the wings correctly. Each time a dimension was set, it took a total of three days to complete the cut. Unlike the laser cutter, the CNC requires multiple passes in order to make a complete cut.

Below is the finished trajectory…it worked…but the results were suboptimal.

So for this project Adam and I made a wood cut of the yugioh card galaxy eyes photon dragon. First we found a image we wanted to use. Then we open the cutting software and uploaded the image. Then we turn on the wood laser. And we put a outline around the image so it would cut it out. Then we clicked print and waited 10 minutes and it was done.

Ryan and I used the vinyl machine to print out a sticker of Kite Tenjo from Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal. Ryan walked me through it somewhat because he was more experienced than me with the vinyl machine. We took a picture of Kite and turned it black and white. Then we peeled off all the little pieces of the sticker. Peeling off the pieces took a long because of all the little details on it. Ryan and I lost our stickers but I have a picture of mine and it’s pretty cool.

These past couple months Ella and I, have been working on a bookshelf that already had an art on the bookshelf. Ella and I decided to take it into our own hands to redo the shelf, we started with painting the whole shelf a bright red. We than let that dry for a couple days, as we were letting it dry we did some touch ups on a couple spot. We than did a beautiful design on the back of the bookshelf we did a DOC URBANO themed shelf we did colors like blue, red, black, grey, pink, yellow and more it turned out to be a good bookshelf with what you used to our best ability, DOC I hope you like it!

While working on painting a birdhouse with Alex, Dr. Urbano told us that he had a bookshelf he wanted painted. We told him he was going to have to wait until we were done and then we would happily paint it. After finishing the birdhouse Alex and I began working on the bookshelf. The front and sides were painted red. Inside the first shelf there was an Eiffel Tower design, the second shelf had some water and trees, and the last one had numbers. Down the sides of the shelf there were small flowers. The back of the shelf was not painted at all. Our first step was to paint the back of the shelf red. We did about three or four coats of paint to make the color bold. After getting the back painted red we painted over the flowers on the side and the second and bottom shelves in red. Jordan than told us that those flowers were painted by Tina and we felt really bad for covering them up, but we continued with our project. Then we started thinking about what designs we wanted to paint on the shelf. We were stuck on what to do and then Alex had the idea to write “Doc’s Lair” on the back. Then I said we should do caves and have Doc put his handprints on the cave. So, we painted the caves and then we decided to put Dr. Urbano’s face on it and include things he likes and quotes he says. We painted Perry the platypus, pocket cheese, and gave Dr. Urbano a crown. Some quotes we used include “What are you doing?”, “ok”, and “ToDdLeRs”. We still have some finishing touches to put on this project which include a fire in the cave, more coats of paint, and Dr. Urbano’s handprints.

For this project Adam and I printed out the character Kite Tenjo from yugioh zexal. First we found a image on the internet and saved it to the computer. Then we opened up the cutting software and turned on the machine. After That we made a outline around it so it would cut the sticker out. Then we peeled the excess plastic and then we put transfer tape on.

I designed this coaster for Christmas. What I did was I first drew it on procreate. I drew one layer with the circular outline and the trees and then another layer with the circular outline and the words. After I drew them in procreate, we transferred the design to Corel and cut out the two layers separately. The first time that it was cut out the layer with the words was too thick to punch out the extra wood from the design so it had to be cut again. After another one was cut, I glued the two layers together to make the final shape. This was difficult because the words broke off from the outline so I had to glue them separately. After everything was glued, I added ribbon and the ornament was finished! I plan to make more ornament designs in the future.