Makerspace at the Fulton School
This is my blog post for Makerspace. I made many things in the duration of this week, but I decided to research laser cutters. Laser cutters cut through wood with a highly concentrated laser. The laser is made in a chamber with mirrors on…
steps: the first thing I did was draw out my knife on an app called procreate. After I did that I moved it to a computer and printed it out on the laser cutter, it did not work the first time because the rim…
ABS PLA PLA is less sensitive to tempurature changes, and is one of the easier to use. It wont work with wear and teare designs in comparison to ABS, even though PLA will take more stress before breaking. As it turns out PLA means…
MY FAILED ATTEMPTS For my interim project, I made a piece of art to hand up on my bedroom wall. While making my wall art I learned what different ways work and do not work for sealing open space to then fill with resin….
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…
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