Neighborhood Landscaping and General Labor

Since 7th grade, I have been working around my neighborhood. Everyone has about 7 acres and most own horses. I mow, trim, mulch, weed, take care of animals, and anything else to take care of a 7 acre property. Along with the general maintenance I have also built several things for neighbors. Some of them include a seesaw for a dog agility course, a fence around a propane tank (picture to come), and much more. This upcoming summer I will be gutting, designing, and building a new dream garden for my neighbor. I plan on taking everything out and re-leveling the ground. Then mulch the entire area. I will then build multiple raised beds, a greenhouse, a drainage pond, and a work bench. It will have a decorative fence around the outside.

Above is the frame of the dog seesaw, it will have a 2*6 on top of it.

Here is a picture of a stall I just re mated.

Karting Designs

I have been go karting since 12, but have competed competitively for the last 3 years. This year I won the IDRIVE championship which awarded me a professional go kart for the next season. Most racers I race with have their own logos and like customized products. I have made up multiple designs to sell on race days. Everything is 100% customizable. They can ask for their logos, achievements, sponsors, or anything else to be printed on the designs. I have also printed my logo onto a t-shirt and hoodie. I plan on making more clothes.

Customizable laser art

Hoodie

T-shirt front

T-shirt back

Yoga Room Art

My parents were turning an old office into a yoga and meditation room. They searched all over the internet for simple clean looking calm wall art, they could not find anything. I designed and cut out all the the art above for their room. The tree cut out is the most popular. Since I made it for them I have received multiple orders from friends.

Makerspace @home during COVID

Since spring break 2020 I have been doing online school. One of the biggest things I miss is not having access to the makerspace every day and not being able to utilize it for class projects as often. I have still found ways to build and make things for classes at home. A few of them include recreating a graphic novel scene, recreating scenes from books, and building a raffle box.

The image above is a recreating from a graphic novel. My brother and I were taking the same class and worked together on the project work to recreate this picture. He held the whip in the background while I knelled on our horse with a scarecrow on my back.

The pictures above are recreations of different scenes from True Grit and Othello. The first one is a recreation of the dugout scene in True Grit. I cut the hills out of cardboard and spray painted them dark green. While the paint was still wet I covered it with grass, leaves, and branches. I made the cabin out of lincoln logs. I made the shed next to the cabin out of branches and weaved them through string so they would stay together. The base is white fabric so it would look like winter.

The last 2 pictures above are a recreation of the Globe Theater. My brother and I did research on the globe theaters construction and unique characteristics. We made it out of paper and popsicle sticks.

The last two pictures are models of a raffle box in The Lottery. The box was very old. I tried to model the book’s description of it as much as possible. I lightly painted it black to make it look worn along with splintering the wood. The names were all carved into wood chips. I found a down cedar branch and cut it up. I then used a wood burner to engrave all the character’s names on the peices.

The Royal Game of Ur

Makerspace PPE

I have made a production possibility curve for the makerspace 3D printers making face shields and face masks. The curve shows how many products you can make in 24 hours working as efficiently as possible.

The image above shows the raw data of how long each product takes to print and how much filament it takes to print it.

The graph above is the production possibility curve for the makerspace working at max capacity. The red line shows the production possibility using the Taz printer. The blue line shows the production possibility using the Prusa printer. Say you want to make 8 shields in the Prusa printer, you can look on the x-axis for 8 shields and then look at that on the blue line which then shows you how many masks you can make which is 0.75 masks.
The table above shows the production possibility for making shields on both printers. The axis on the top that goes from 0-11 is the amount of shields you can make on the Taz printer. The left axis that goes from 0-14 is the number of shields you can make on the Prusa printer. Say you want to make 5 shields on the Taz and 7 shields on the Prusa you can make 1.28 masks.

Whittling Project

Geometry Coaster Project

In geometry we had to make 4 coasters with a formula or theorem on them. I decided to make mine with the definitions for Orthocenter, Circumcenter, Incenter, Centroid, Altitude, Perpendicular Bisector, Median, and Angle Bisector.

Geometry Birdhouse Project

In geometry class we made birdhouses. I made mine out of the $3 wood from the makerspace. I made my birdhouse for the American Goldfinch which is 4-5 inches in length. I made a hole of the side which will open up to a feed box. The box isn’t attached yet, but will be… eventually…

Getting the hang of building war bases in Clash of Clans

since I have been having trouble making war bases on my th6 account because it’s too small of a base to be able to do any work with I’ve decided to try building them on my th9 account which is easier. Over a long period of time (I had already built 2 bases by this point in time) I noticed that the clan me and Jack created was dying meaning it was becoming a very inactive clan. So I decided to go on discord and find a clan to help me attack. After getting about 500 messages from people to join there clan I had finally found one and they got straight to the point telling me to train this specific army. A few days later I saw my Clash of Clans teacher in a war and looked at his base and it gave me an idea for my 3rd war base design so I immediately started designing the base looking back and fourth on the details of his base ( NOT copying it or designing it in the same way). Eventually after experimenting with different ways I could make compartments, ways to use my walls efficiently and effectively, and deciding where to place my defenses I made probably the best war base out of all the bases I have designed. Which all came from getting a compartment idea off of another player. So my idea is to find clans with players and view their war bases. Then use one of their compartment ideas or multiple of their compartment ideas to help me build my own war bases.
These are all the war bases I have created up to this point with the last image being my best war base:

That’s all I have for an update, and according to this update I’m doing fairly well and have finally found a tactic I can use to make my bases. This may not be my final post so stay tuned.🐓🐓🐓