Tri State Area
Makerspace at the Fulton School
Soccer Ball
I 3D printed a miniature soccer ball with my brother with the color white and painted black circles on it.
What I did in the makers space interim
So the first day I helped Micheal, Bryson get there 3D objects printed out on the 3D printer. The next day I bought a piece of wood so i could use the wood laser. I made the Kansas city chiefs logo, Star Wars logo, and Doodle bob, and Caveman Sponge bob. Then we tried to engrave something into metal for the first time and it came out really good.
How to use the 3d printer
First you have to find something you want to print off the internet or something you made yourself. Then you want to download the file onto a jump drive. Then load up the 3d printer program, Cura program then add your file into program. Then scale to the size you want it to be then see how much the object weighs in grams to see how much the object will cost. Then you take cloth, rubbing alcohol and start wiping down the base to get any excess plastic off the base. Once you finish cleaning the board you put the bed adhesive on the base so the object you make will stick to the base. Then go to the program, Cura program and slice your object on the program to see how it will take then you press print. Then when it finishes take the butter knife looking tool to gently remove your object and your done.
My Makerspace Interim Experience.
Hello. This is about my experience with the makerspace interim at the Fulton School. When we began makerspace we started by telling each other what our goals for makerspace would be. After that, we went to work. I started by setting up blender and using it to begin creating a resurgent class star destroyer from star wars. Blender is a free tool used to create 3D models and animations. I started by selecting parts of the starting cube, and moving them to create the ship’s main body. I then added another cube and started editing it until I had a simple version. I then began the creation of a lightsaber. I started by creating a cylinder and widening and elongating it. I then made another cylinder, and shrunk and made it about three times the size of the hilt. When I came back the next day, I added a button to the lightsaber hilt, and then smoothed and detailed the star destroyer. At the end of the day I began printing the star destroyer. When I came back the next day, the star destroyer was finished being printed. I then removed the supports, and started sanding the bottom of the ship. The next day, I printed the lightsaber, and once it was finished, I took pictures of the lightsaber and the star destroyer. After that, I began writing this blog post about my experience.
Building a PC
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.
February Interim
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.
Wooden Bench
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.
Dog Bowl Holder
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.
3D Wolf
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.
Pigeon Skeleton
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.
Tree Cores
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.
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