Tri State Area
Makerspace at the Fulton School
A better clock
Almost everybody knows of Doctor Urbano’s LED clock in the Makerspace and how blasphemous it is. So I’ve made a better one. Boasting 60, not 72, but 60 top-of-the-line AliExpress LEDs (definitely not made in a sweatshop), this clock doesn’t skip around every few seconds.
pico clock
i made a clock run by a raspberry pi pico W.
it gets the current time over wifi and can print the arc length of the second, minute, and hour hands.
Wooden Starry Night
I first started off making a galaxy drawing on procreate and then laser printed it on a wooden plank and colored it with colored pencils. I then realized it looked like “Starry Night”.
Yarn kite
I made this yarn kite because I needed something to do and it was easy. I did it a long time ago at art camp so I knew how. You can make some pretty intricate ones, this one is simple though.
Terrariums
In Mackerspace, I have been experimenting with the minimal necessities and best ways to create a self-sustaining terrarium. I am using three different types of moss and experimenting with drainage. The six combinations I am trying are:
- Java moss+ABG
- Java moss+ABG+false bottom
- Polytrichales+ABG
- Polytrichales+ABG+false bottom
- Pin cushion moss+ABG
- Pin cushion moss+ABG+false bottom
The moss I am using takes a long time to die even if it isn’t properly sustained so after almost one month I have no results.
Makerspace Project
One day I got super bored and didn’t have a project to do. After spending nearly the entire time trying to find what to do, I eventually found two pencils and a random ball of light blue yarn and decided to use them to knit. I decided not to do a particular design, but it will be finished when the yarn runs out. This project is very relaxing and fun to do. It provides a nice break from stressful stuff. So far, I think I’m halfway through the yarn or close to halfway. By doing this project I learned that it’s really easy to find the basic materials for knitting and starting.
Fiat 500 seat upgrade
This week in maker’s space I worked on planning a seat upgrade for my car, which is a Fiat 500. The new seat is made in Italy and the company is Italian. It is a bucket seat and I want to upgrade to it because it’s cooler and safer. I made sure to measure the dimensions and the height of the seat compared to the old seat. I also investigated the bolt sizes to make sure they fit the brackets. I figured out which tools I would need. Most of the bolts are 16 mm and 10 mm. I have all of the information I need to order the seat when I have the money to buy it.
Monuments from around the world,
I made some wooden replicas of some monuments from around the world.
I used some scraps from the scraps pile and hot glued things together.
I made the pyramids of Giza, the Chicago bean the Kilianan nuclear powerplant, and the Gagarin monument. Even the Obelisk of Piazza Navona.
iPhone 5 teardown display
For the 2024 global interim I did a project I had been wanting to do for a while, a teardown display of an iPhone. Recently the Makerspace received a donation of several old Apple products, one of them being an iPhone 5.
I spent a while trying to find a good template that I could transfer to an .svg file for laser cutting. After doing this I designed a magnetic frame assembly that would let me take the whole frame apart.
The frame consists of three pieces, a backboard, mid frame, and top frame. The teardown display sits in between the backboard and mid frame while a piece of clear acrylic sits between the mid and top frames.
My original design had the individual layers of the frame cutout in two parts, while seeming like a good idea at first, I later realized that the way I designed it wasn’t all that good, resulting in a more painful assembly process. This design has since been fixed for anyone willing to replicate the project in the future.
Disassembly of the iPhone was a much less painful experience, with help from Damien I was able to get it all taken apart and glued onto the board.
This project fits into the global theme of this week’s interim since it displays all of the globally sourced internals of an iPhone, Japanese batteries and Cameras, Taiwanese silicon, American glass, and Korean processors all put into a phone designed by Apple in California.
Amazing Abaca ball
I made an abaca ball, which is from the Philippines. Abaca thread is made from an abaca plant. Abaca plants are native to the Philippines. It also takes several months to be ready for harvest. Long story short, I don’t have any abaca. You may be asking, “how did you make an abaca ball without any abaca thread?” the answer is, I didn’t. Instead of giving up, I improvised by using Millie’s idea which was coating string or yarn in glue and wrapping it around a balloon. After a day, you would pop the balloon. The sting or yarn would stay put because it was covered in dried glue, therefore keeping the string or yarn in place.
Link to info: Food And Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Future Fibers: Abaca
I discovered abaca balls from Pintrest
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