Tri State Area
Makerspace at the Fulton School
Wooden Sword
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:
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.
Earrings
Both middle and high-school students have been spotted wearing earrings of our own design.
Binders
Now that we’ve figured out the living hinges, we have binders available for sale (often with custom designs).
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.
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.
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.
Minecraft Torch (by sydney DON’T COPY WRITE)
So, letucce get to the basics of it. This is my minecraft torch! For those of you who don’t know what that is, it’s from a video game called Minecraft. I started by using the laser cutter to cut out the base of the torch (The brown part) and put the box together. Then I started on the top of torch by doing the same thing with the base, except this time I cut out windows in the sides. I mixed up some epoxy and used it to fill in the windows doing a different shade of yellow in each window pane. It ended up failing the first time so now the first attempt is kept in the makerspace. After my first attempt I tried it again and it worked! I put the pieces together and attached it to the base. After all of that I decided to make another flat base to go under all of that so then its stable. I then painted it green to look like grass. Now that the main part was done, it was time to get into the wiring and coding aspect of it.
I used the raspberry pie and soldered the wires and LED strip to it. I used a touch censor to signal the lights on and off. Now all I need to do it plug it in and code it. BOOMSHAKALAKA!
A spoonful of sugar
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.
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