Makerspace at the Fulton School
For my project, I made a wooden lightning bolt surrounded by LED lights. Steps: First I drew out my lightning bolt and transferred it to the computer, then cut them out with the laser cutter. The next step was to glue together the bolts…
When epoxy does need sanding its best to use wet sanding. (Wet Sanding- is when, typically water or any other liquid, is applied to the sandpaper leaving less residue on the surface leading to longer use of the paper. Epoxy is a very hard…
For my maker space interim research project, I choose to research epoxy table molds and how to make them. I did this because while Blas and I were making our table we used tape on the edges thinking that all the epoxy would not…
The halberd weapon’s origins can be traced to the Swiss armies of the 14th and 15th centuries. The weapon consists of an ax blade balanced by a pick with an elongated pike head at the end of the staff. It was usually about 1.5…
Based on a picture I found on google, I slightly modified its length, shape and outlined it. Then I set the length, width and thickness of the halberd, and then divided a long piece of wood into 3 pieces and combined them with wood…
We created a table using two separate pieces of wood joined by resin. The table took a few months of makerspace elective time to create due to the time resin takes to dry and the amount of extra details that were needed to be…
Hello. This is about my experience with the makerspace interim at the Fulton School. When we began makerspace we started by telling each other what our goals for makerspace would be. After that, we went to work. I started by setting up blender and…
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…
Coen and Blas’s cell project for their science class. It’s a pinball machine. Currently, a cell pinball machine is being built. On 3/12/19 Coen and Blas started to laser cut the parts of the cell so that they could start to assemble the cell….
For the Maker-space interim I am going to make a chess board with the names of all the first countries to start playing chess engraved in the white squares. To make this I will use the template I previously made to engrave a piece…
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