Tri State Area

Basically over the summer I became very inspired by an athlete and all that was on my mind was her and her sport. As school started the olympics had just ended and because they were so recent- it was the only thing on my mind. I started out by drawing the the logo out on a piece on cloth. The cloth had to be pulled tightly on to a board of tacks. Then I got more detailed with the logo and started the back ground of the carpet. Then little by little I continued and literally just two days ago go done with it. I still need to put the back of the carpet on the carpet. I used glue on the back side of the carpet and then when it dried I shaved the carpet down.

For my Makerspace project this quarter I decided to make a wooden planter for some type of plant don’t know which plant I will plant in it. First I started out log and cut it half with a hammer and a chisel then I began carving it out with a chisel which took awhile so after a awhile I decided to use a drill to get a jumpstart to my progress and make it easier because it’s was hallowed out. I continue with the chisel and am still working on hallowing it out. I used a rasp on the sides to get the even and smooth. Eventually I will seal it with either epoxy or some sort of mineral oil or maybe treat the wood so it won’t rot if it’s outside. I hope to finish this project in the middle of the 2nd quarter if not the end of the 2nd quarter

For my 1st quarter makerspace project I made a Chinese fire arrow, the rocket variant specifically.

How I made it: the first thing I did was cut a dowel rod to an appropriate length, then I drilled a whole in a scrap block of wood for the tip. Then I sanded down the tip to make a point and friction fit the tip onto the dowel rod. The next thing I did was laser cut 3 fletchings and attach them on the end of the dowel rod each at 120 degrees using glue. Lastly, I glued on a rocket motor to the shaft and glued string around the rocket motor to make it look realistic.

If I made this again I would sand down the tip completely before I attach it onto the dowel rod, because sanding it while on the dowel rod made it difficult for me to reach certain areas of the tip.

This is a project I did with the laser cutter. The reason I wanted to make this was because I simply found the idea of making a tree out of wood funny. What I did to create it was I spent way to much time trying to cut a tree image in half so I could make the tree. It was very simple to make once I was done editing the image. Something I probably should have done differently was not make four parts of a tree and make it into one and instead I should have made one half and two fourths.

These are resin dinosaur coasters I made by laser cutting the dinos, the original design came from Conner Frank. Then I made the resin by mixing equal parts of part A and part B for 4 minutes. After that I poured a little of the resin in the molds and then carefully placed the dinos in. Then I filled resin around them and waited for it to cure (which takes 24 hours). then I made a little more resin and poured it on top so none of the wood was sticking out.

The first thing I did was pick a photo. Then I had to do the math to find the size of the bottle. then I printed out a photo of Buch on a special paper. last I got the heat press and did it. It turns out very green not as blue as I wanted.

During the quarter I mostly worked on my knitting project. I started it last year but didn’t finish it. I plan to finish the yarn and then find a use for it or continue it if I find any inspiration.

For community service, I had to remake these tiles but bigger. I mostly just copy and pasted the preexisting tile and then changed the letters.

For quarter one, I brought in a long slab of wood previously used as an outdoor table and created a Glacier table with the help of Doc, Millie, and Peter. The slab had a large split in one end that we filled with resin. First, Doc sanded it down to make it all smooth. Then, we taped up the edges and made a duct tape wall so the resin wouldn’t spill out of the split. After taping, the first layer of resin was poured, this layer was clear. After it cured, the second layer was poured, this layer was light blue. After this layer was cured, we made an almost white resin mixture and used it to design a glacier. While the glacier was curing, we broke apart pieces of cured blue epoxy and glued them on other parts of the ‘water’ to look like icebergs. Peter 3D-printed tiny polar bears, and we glued them sporadically across the water and icebergs. After everything was cured, another resin layer was added as a top coat. Unfortunately, the resin was spilled on the part of the table that was supposed to stay as raw wood, but Doc is sanding it off.