Tri State Area

I have been working this year on making coasters to celebrate the school’s 25th anniversary. This is one of the 10 designs so far.

For the Makerspace Business club I made luggage tags. They are made out of blank anodized aluminum tags that we ordered from a manufacturer on Ebay, and I used the laser cutter to etch in the designs. My friend and I designed the tags on our laptops using Corel draw. The luggage tags come in a number of different designs like the St. Louis and NYC skylines, as well as exclusive designs like the New Zealand flag. They can also have custom designs based on what the buyer wants.

I made a Circle Puzzle for the lower school, it consists of a wooden platform cut out from the laser, and another piece glued on top of that that has different size circles cut out from it. The goal for the lower school is to match the cylinders to the rite size cut out.

I finally after like 2 or 3 years have completed the board game Kerak. I don’t really have a place to put the piece but i guess I could just buy a box for it and put the pieces in that box and label it “Kerak” so people know the board and box go together. s let me know your thoughts about this board game.

here are the rules:

On The Rail Designs is a comapny I started. We build custom acrylic signs for horse fencing. On The Rail Designs makes dressage letters out of a single piece of acrylic which we bend to fit snug on vinyl fence rails. Our letters attach on all four sides of the rail and can be easily removed. Our letters will not fade in the sun and will withstand the outdoor conditions.

It started out with my neighbor having the problem of not being able to find any dressage letters to hand on her fencing. Most dressage letters on the market are cheap quality and made to sit on the ground. Most would get blown over or away in almost every storm. She wanted something she can set up once and won’t have to touch again. It also needed to be clean looking. I started designing several prototypes. I first tried gluing several acrylic pieces together. The joints were weak so I had to redesign them. I researched several different design techniques and saw a tool that took full pieces of acrylic and bent them into the shape you wanted. I knew this is the route I needed to go.

I design and built my own acrylic bender. I bought a power supply from Amazon and took it apart. I attached each wire to a different end of nichrome wire so the electricity would run through the nichrome wire. In the picture below the red line is the nichrome wire heated up. This is what creates the heat to melt the acrylic. After holding your piece of acrylic over the wire for 30 sec. you can bend it at any angle. It takes about 1 min. to harden and then you have a custom bent piece of acrlyic.

I made a picture stand for the pictures taken on grandparent’s day.

Helped Andres make a sticker for his computer.

I’m done making my board and my piece for my board game, but I have little to no knowledge on creating a gameplay for the board game so if you have any idea tell me ï need them desperately. Thanks out.