Tri State Area

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.

I’ve been struggling at getting information on war bases and a lot of sources aren’t very helpful to me and don’t give detailed information about the building process of a war base. Some of these sources only talk about their war base and why they designed it that way but they don’t cover where to start, where to place defenses, how to set up compartment and what buildings to put in them. But some sources have some info that I want or needed to know but I eventually found out after taking some notes these sources are like 3-5 years old and a lot has changed since then making the info I gathered useless. Because in 2019 they added 2 more th levels meaning more troops and it changes the gameplay and how we defend our bases. I did find 2 videos on YouTube with only one being helpful for me and my th11 base because the other covered th9 war base layouts but it didn’t have much detail. The next one was like a video on the fundamentals of war bases and covered many things including trap placement and how heavily it effects how well you defend against attacks. Here is all the info I gathered some outdated and some not:

I think most of my struggle was not just building the base but because of the releases of th12 and 13 last year people focused mainly on them so there were barely any th11 specific sources. then I thought of a solution that may help me break down these bases a lot easier, and that is to try and find war base information on lower town halls and try to climb my way up to making More advanced level war bases. Since I have a th6 account it may be the perfect starting point to learn how to build my war base and may actually teach me a round about way to approach the building process, design, and strategical placement that comes into play when building a war base. But I also have a back up plan just in case this ends up being a waste of time. So stay tuned if you want to see what I come up with next and if you want to hear my plan B option.