Tri State Area

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.

For this interim, I chose to continue working on the website for the ITEF grant. I was mainly focused on the appearance of the website and making it look nicer, as a good majority of the website is already fully functional. I made some small changes to some of the pages and came up with a list of other changes to implement that time restraints would not permit me to work on within this week. I am confident that I will be able to substantially improve the design in the future.

We have finished cutting phase and are deep in construction almost done with the table I currently can not provide an image. When I can then I will post it separate to this post.