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Fixing my glasses

After wearing my glasses for a ling period of time, the screws become loose. I used a screwdriver to tighten them.

Hammer

I made it out of wood using the CNC. the design of the hammer was from the game war hammer. I would say it turned out good. the thing had some mess ups. like the splinter had a note. it also did not like the settings. Sometimes when it was cutting it barely even cut the wood. so we had to change some of the settings. the things I think I need to work on are, not tackling so long to figure out why the splinter and the settings were not working.

I made the back of the hammer smother and pointed at the end. It kinda looks like a axe face but way less sharp. I used a rasp and a chisel to make it a bit more sharp. In the process of making the back look like a axe I stabbed myself with the chisel. It bled for around 10 minutes. after that, I made a share that my left hand was behind my back when I was chiseling. the things that I need to work on are not stabbing myself with a chisel.

Wooden Sword

Broken Sword Moment :0

first I made the design on inventables and it took way to much time. Then I used the CNC machine and I made the sword. After that, we rasped and sanded the sword to look smooth and drilled a hole in the middle. So then we put the epoxy in the hole with tape on the bottom and left it overnight. When we had the next Makerspace class, the epoxy was gone and it leaked through the tape and made the sword stuck to the table. I tried to pull it off and the sword broke in 2. As you can see from the image, it was pretty much unfixable. so next time I’ll make it again and hopefully not ruin it with epoxy.

The river table!!

For my maker space project this quarter I made a table for the math room out of a slice of log. There was a cut in the wood so we used resin to make a miniature river with a glacier and ice burgs. There are even little polar bears on some of the icebergs. It was a very fun project to do and now all we have to do now is put legs on it. The only mistake on the table is the top coat has a lot of bubbles in it so it looks a little weird. We might sand it down and re do the top coat later.

DC Presensation and 3d F-35 model,

I have been working on a couple things this semester, First thing is a F-35 model,

An F-35 is a Multi role 5th gen US fighter jet, I used Tinkercad to make the model.

It was a long process and will be finished soon, the remaining steps is to print it out and paint it.

The next thing I worked on is a Presentation of the D.C trip us middle schoolers took.

It will be finished soon and Presented in Morning meeting.

☆Star coasters!☆

☆I used the idea of putting wood into coasters and added the step of spray painting the wood. we used the Lazer cutter to cut the designs. the designs came from the “shape tool” in Corel, then spray painted the cut-outs. I say it adds a little something to the usual blank and boring wood color!☆

☆ I also suppose you could just use acrylic paint to get the color you want. I will probably use acrylic paint instead of spray paint the next time I do this, but you could try either.☆

Attempting to make a sweater

Im trying to crochet a sweater. This yarn is hard bc I’ve never used brushed yarn and it gets little knots easily. I’m taking my time with it though, so I don’t want to quit. It should turn out pretty nice I think.

Practical applications of 3D Printing Pt. 1: Makerspace Upgrades

I believe 3D Printing technology is a tool at its core. While some people get loads of joy from making endless doodads and whatchamacallits, I prefer to make things I can use to solve problems (after all, is it really worth spending hundreds of dollars on premium Czechian hardware just for thingamajig fabrication?).

Over the summer I spent a lot of my time helping Dr. Urbano get the Makerspace ready for the next school year. A major part of this was organizing and reconfiguring. Many changes were made over the course of this period. One of the major organizing tasks was the cable management for the laptop chargers, it was a brutal mess and needed work. With the help of Fusion360 and a few hours of printing we had a beautiful wall-mounted power supply rack.

Another great addition to the Makerspace made possible by 3D printing was a paper towel rack, this revolutionary device is based of the design for our filament spool rack, featuring a swing-out holder-arm that allows for seamless integration of easy-to-find and comprehensive paper towel technology to the Makerspace.

Many other examples include a broom holder, brackets for table legs and shelves, magnetic cable arches, ceiling mounts for Ikea bins, screw trays, and a build plate holder.

Makerspace Crafts

Between the Makerspace Business Club and the Middle School Business (Chicken Middle), students have produced a wide variety of items that have helped fund supplies and equipment in the Makerspace.

Coasters

Laser-etched coasters were some of our first items.

As our capabilities have expanded, epoxy has been added into the mix:

Some coasters are based off of student artwork, while others were designed as projects in math class (sinusoidal functions in polar coordinates from pre-Calculus in this set).

Keychains

The middle schoolers started making epoxy keychains two years ago and these seem to be able to sell themselves. Visitors to the Makerspace will often find them hanging from a display and want to take one home.

Epoxy keychains made by Chicken Middle.

Earrings

Both middle and high-school students have been spotted wearing earrings of our own design.

The clear epoxy stand is also made in the Makerspace.

Binders

Now that we’ve figured out the living hinges, we have binders available for sale (often with custom designs).

Small, laser-cut binder.

Chess

Students have made a fair number of chess boards, often laser-cutting (or sometimes using the CNC) the board shapes and filling squares with epoxy, but they seem to like making epoxy chess pieces even more, so we have a bit of a surplus of those at the moment.

Chess board with multi-layered epoxy pieces on the right.
A few sets of pieces.

Holiday Ornaments

Of course, the holiday season offers lots of opportunities for create decorations.

Games

The precision of the laser cutter, and an interest in traditional games has resulted in the production of some pretty neat game sets.

We have tangram sets in small (4″x4″) and large sizes.

cicada earrings :)

A few months back i decided to make cicada earrings out of real cicadas. so i collected all the dead intact cicadas i could find and began. my first idea was to impale them with a needle and put the earring part onto it, it that ended up decapitating. after that i thought covering them in epoxy resin would be best, and it worked. a while later i came back after they had kinda dried out and re-impaled the resin covered cicadas. now i have beautiful earrings.