Tri State Area

We built a PC with RGB lighting and RGB ram. RGB is a shorthand way of writing Red-Green-Blue. It turned out very good. The experience of building it was very educational, and overall it was really fun. We learned about the different parts of a computer and how they all fit together to create one PC. Then we put them all together. The experience was very enriching and exciting.

This is how my week went:

Monday- I got everything squared away for the Makerspace Business Trivia Night basket

Tuesday- I helped Andres with the core samples and made the first New Zealand keychain

Wednesday- I made a second New Zealand key chain

Thursday- I started on the epoxy necklace

Friday- I finished the epoxy necklace.

All in all, I had a very productive interim and hope to start selling the two products I experimented with during the interim.

On Wednesday, I was bored and decided to make a bench for my lake house. I bought planks of wood and cut it with the chop saw. I put it together on Friday since I went skiing on Thursday. All that is left is putting the top of it on.

First things first, I started by making the dimensions of the holder on paper. After that, I drew the sketch of the dimensions out on cardboard. Next, I put the dimensions into the computer app CorelDraw and then put it on the flash drive. I moved to the lazer and the computer that controls the lazer, plugged in the flash drive and found scraps of wood. The lazer cut out the name Bella in cursive and tiny paw prints walking on the top of the holder. After it was cut, I used wood glue to put the pieces together. It was supposed to be done after 24 hours, but we waited 30 minutes before we could touch it. I then started to paint a clear coat on it so the water would not rot the wood if it got wet. I applied 3 coats of it and on the 3rd coat, the directions said that after you are done applying the last coat, you wait for a full 24 hours before use. Since I started building it on Monday and glued and painted on Tuesday, I was able to do it by the end of the school day on Wednesday.

First I had to find the diameter of a wolf and then draw it on a pice of graph paper. I used the 3D printer. On Blender I had to find an out line of a wolf then upload it to blender and took everything a week to make it on blender and it was hard to do. It took me 3 tries to get it right because the 3D printer was not cooperating with the wolf. My project was the first blender made 3D printed object to successfully turn out correct.

For interim this week I was in Makerspace AM. A couple weeks ago I was assigned to make a kids memory toy for my anatomy class. We dissected a shark, snake, rat and pigeon in class, so I decided to do my project on the skeleton of a pigeon. Since I hang out with my little cousins a lot and I always see them playing with wooden puzzles, I decided that I would make the skeleton into a puzzle. I used pine wood and the laser cutter to make the puzzle and I cut out little pegs to make the pieces easier to remove.

This interim week I was working every morning in makerspace.
In the beginning of the week, I was using the chop saw to cut the wood. After that, I file the wood, and I used the CNC machine to make a line on the wood. Later, I put the tree piece in the line, and I used the Laser cutter to write on the wood.

We attached one of the sides to the top of the table and have all the lower parts of the table done and secured tightly.

I was tasked with coming up with my own idea for a project to work on for the week. I was having doubts about what I was going to do, but I eventually decided on taking all of the keys out of a keyboard and then painting them. My color scheme was a simple rainbow, and I was originally going to put vinyl letters on the keys, but I decided to take them off to make the design more simplistic and stylish. All in all, I had a really fun time this week and liked the result of my project.

To make my oar I started with a 2×4. I then cut the 2×4 into two pieces, the one I used was 5 and a half feet. I then ripped that piece of wood and used one of the two pieces for the shaft of my ore. The other piece I cut in half and used for the blade of my oar. After that all I did was sand the blade and shaft to get it more oar shaped. I still have a little work left to do and then staining the wood.