Tri State Area
Makerspace at the Fulton School
Makerspace Business Club Website Progress
This year, I have been working on a website for the Makerspace Business Club to advertise and sell their products. After constant revamping, I have finally decided on a format to use and now am working on getting all the information listed. As of 4/25, I have the contact information listed and have a page for the glasses, ornaments, and coasters for sale.
Model Room: Macbeth
We just finished reading the play, Macbeth. I was going to make a model of the castle where Macbeth was from but there was a design mistake and didn’t fit together after the laser cut it out. We didn’t have enough time to go back, change the design and re-cut it all again. We ended up making a simple model of the room he was killed in.
3D Chess Board
My first ever makerspace project was when I was in seventh grade. My teacher and a lot of high schoolers were making coolly designed chess boards and chess pieces at the time so I wanted to give it a try. I designed my own chess pieces using openscad so I could 3D print them. I made the board out the 2*2s and stained them different colors.
Ceramic Tile Shelves
I am in geometry class and we had to do a project by the end of the quarter that had to involve with we were learning. We were learning about graphing different types of functions at the time. One of the Spanish teachers at our school needed some type of shelving system to hang ceramic tiles that her students were painting on the walls. I was trying to think about ways I could make a shelf using a sine curve. My teacher and I decided to laser cut a sine curve and mount it on the wall so the tiles could slide in and out of it. First I had to make a spreadsheet to get the coordinates of the function and then turn it into a line using a program which I then took the line and laser cut it out. When I cut it out I didn’t like the design so I tried all kinds of different ways making it look nicer. I came up with the idea of having two sine curves flipped on top of each other.
3D Periodic Table
We were learning about the different characteristics of the periodic table in chemistry class. We had a project where we had to make a 3D periodic table of a characteristic of our choice and we could make it however we wanted. I choose ionization energy and wanted to make it using 2*2 and make them different highest depending on how high of ionization energy the element has.
LED Light Show
I wanted to learn how to program using the raspberry pi and learn how to solder using our new electronics bay. I started off with multiple different ideas but ended up making a LED light display. I took apart Christmas lights to get the LED lights and then soldered them together. I then made the frame using the laser cutter by making two circles for the top and bottom and a special cutting design to make the rounded exterior. After I finished soldering and lasering I started programming. There were some problems with finding the right type of program that would work so we tried multiple different ideas but none of them seemed to work.
Florida Map: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Florida Map: Their Eyes Were Watching God
We just finished reading the book Their Eyes Were Watching God in english class. We had to do a project over the book. My group decided to laser cut a map of Florida which is where the book took place and then etch on where each part of the book took place. On the back of the map, we have each placed named out and a brief summary of what happened in that location.
Tablet: Gilgamesh
Our history teacher gave us an art project after we finished reading the Epic Of Gilgamesh. I wanted to use the laser in some way and was trying to think of ways to use it. The book was originally written on rock tablets. I used one of the laser scanned copies of one of the original tablets. I used CorelDraw to vectorize the scan and make some other changes to make the tablet as clear as possible.
Wine Glasses
The Makerspace Business Club is a new club that was started this year. The students who sign up for it have to come up with products to develop, make, and then sell. My idea was to make custom laser etched wine glasses. On Grandparents Day at our school, we sold wine glasses with the school logo on the front and then laser etch their grandchildren’s name on the back. We now take any custom orders for wine glasses.
Coasters
To make the coasters, I first design something on the computer that is related to the set I am making. For example, when I was making the New Zealand coasters, I did some research on their national icons. When I found something, I would search for a picture of it that I could use. I would then reformat it so it would look good on wood. Once I had 6 coasters, I would laser cut them. After they were done, I sanded the burned parts and sprayed it with a sealer that would make it waterproof.
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