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Final blog post!! This week has kind of been all over the place. I was out for two days, so I didn't have much time to finish up all of my projects. I don't have any pictures, but I spent my week cleaning out my box and yesterday, the construction teacher, Mr. D'Alleva, asked me to cut out a few small tests of the cornhole engravings because they ran into some problems with clear coating and finishing the cornholes. I believe he wants me to try one more time, but I'm won't be

This week and last week I got a bunch of stuff done. Last week, The construction shop teacher, Mr. D'Alleva came to our shop with a cornhole set. He wanted us to add something to it for Mr. Cormio, the Electrical shop teacher who's retiring this year. I volunteered to design it for him. Most of my time last week was coming up with design to put on the cornhole set. I was able to do a test engraving of the design on a small piece of wood and then I ran it by Mr. D'Alleva befo

This week, Kim, Jaspreet, and I were able to get more done for the word clock. First, Kim and I got the metal brackets back from metal fab. We also started stripping the wires and crimping the ring terminals onto them so we could attach the LEDs to the metal power bars that we put in a little while ago. After we attached all of the wires, I went ahead and screwed in the metal brackets to each corner of the word clock for added support. Mr. L said that the L-brackets that I 3

Last week and this week, I worked on both the word clock and my easel project. I started a new design of the easel in CAD. This new design has some ideas recommended to me by my classmate, Kim. The design is now less like an easel and more so just a stand that holds the canvas at an angle. Last week, Kim and I were able to completely finish tapping all of the holes in the steel power bars. It was very tedious because we had to use the drill press on all 34 holes, and then man