Tri State Area

In makerspace recently, I, and a few others, have been working on some woodcarving projects. I decided to make a couple spoons. I started by bringing in some of the wood that doc cut and I removed the bark with a chisel. After that I had doc cut the wood into a couple smaller blocks. I made an outline of what I wanted to make in Blender and exported it as an SVG. I uploaded the design to the computer that runs the CNC machine and cut it out from one of the wood blocks. Once I had a spoon shape, I carved it down to my final shape and sanded it smooth. Finally I coated it in mineral oil.

For my Makerspace project I decided to make a wooden spoon. I decided to make a spoon because I saw a lot of other people making spoons and I thought it would be cool to make one. But I wanted my spoon to be different. So I decided to my spoon with no electronic machines. The first thing I did was get a slab of cedar wood cut it with the saw then I sketched the outline of the spoon on the wood. Then I chiseled out the excess wood and got it the shape I wanted then some of the spoon carving tools doc had and started to carve out the middle of the spoon. There was flaw when I was making this spoon and that was that I made the spoon a little to deep. after I carved the middle out I grabbed some sand paper and started sanding it down. I did not fully finish sanding it but I will continue to work on it after school is over

Here is a picture:

I made a spoon using very arbitrary methods. I first had Doctor Urbano cut out a spoon sized block of cedar using the table saw. Then I traced out the shape of the spoon I wanted and started hacking away at it with a chisel, then I used a drill to put holes in the excess and then I used a jigsaw. I started using the belt sander to get more of the excess off and to start shaping it up more. Then I used the dremel to make the bowl part deeper. Finally I sanded it by hand and put ikea oil on it.

For mother’s day I made a puzzle for my mother. I used Inkscape to make the puzzle outline. Before cutting it out, I used the heat press to put the picture I wanted onto the wood. Once I let it sit overnight, I pit the wood in the laser and cut out the puzzle.

I made a clock, because i felt like it.

to make this clock I first used the laser cutter to cutout a box and clock shape. Then I put all of the motors and wiring. after that I began the most difficult technology based thing i have ever done, the coding. For this task, I needed to go onto github and find the motor.py code to be able to start my project. after i programmed the motor to move clockwise and counter-clockwise, I started on the time aspect of it all. Once I finished that I plugged my clock into the wall to see if it works. It is currently in the wall workings decently well!

This project is a continuation of building a battle bot from scratch. So I spent most of my time getting the right measurements for the wheel connectors for the Lego wheels and the stepper motors. After doing that I tried coding and fixing the connections with the raspberry pie pico to the motors, plus I asked Doctor Urbano for help. But in the end Doc said we had to order new motors and motor controllers , so I researched and Doc ordered two L298n and the motors that came with it. Then I had to go back to the drawing boards with the wheel connectors. It only took a little bit to make the connectors. I had to research how to use the new motors and the L298ns. After that I connected everything together, and try to code the raspberry pie pico. An that is basically it for now, I got tired of printing the wheel connectors out and I should have spent my time more wisely. I will continue this project over the Summer so I can finish it.

L298n

Motors

I made a supper awesome chess board. First I started by making the design for the board, but lost it so my teacher was nice and gave me his design, but I had to make 2 boards one for me and one for him because he let me use his design. to make the board I had to clamp it to the table, then I mixed the resin for the board. I pored the resin into the board then after it dried I used more resin to put a top coat on the board. I also made a light board to go under the chess board to make it light up. I also made pieces to play with using resin. To make the pieces i took a mold and pored resin into the mold when it was dry i took the pieces out and then it was finished. I still have to finish coding the light board but other than that it is finished and looks very cool. Thank you for you time :):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):).

For this year, I have made a couple of projects. I am currently in the making of a Dyno for an RC car. First, a Dyno is a big machine that a car is placed on and strapped on. This machine measures your horsepower and N-m of Torque on a cool graph you can even see the RPM. I will be 3d printing the shell of the Dyno, then add an RPM reader and display it on a screen, I will probably finish it by next year.