5/11 - 5/15

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 before I engraved the actual cornhole set. I was able to get the actual thing engraved and gave it back to Mr. D'Alleva so that he could finish i up with some epoxy or something.

At the same time, I was also working towards the word clock and my canvas stand. I had finished making all the inkscpae files for my canvas stand and I cut out two of the layers. I took those two layers home just to be sure that the measurements were correct. As for the word clock, Mr. L told me that the L-brackets I 3D printed probably weren't strong enough to hold the word clock up well. So, I redesigned them and got them 3D printed. Jaspreet and I screwed two of the new brackets into the backplate.

At the beginning of this week, Kim and I went ahead to try and screw the rest of the new brackets into the frame of the word clock. We got three of them in, but we couldn't get the last one in because the metal power bars were in the way and we would've had to take them out, screw the bracket in, and then put the power bars back in, which wouldv'e just messed up the placement of them. Instead, we decided I'd just redesign the one bracket that doesn't fit.

Last week, when I gave the Cornhole for Mr. Cormio back to Mr. D'Alleva, he thought it would be nice if I engraved sets for the other teachers retiring as well. There are four other teachers retiring, but since the design for Mr. Cormio's set took so long, he told me to just do something simple like the logo. Since there are four teachers, there were eight boards for me to engrave. Tuesday - Friday this week, I've come to school early so that I could engrave one of them because they take a long time and no one else would be able to use the lasercutter. I've also been cutting one during the time that we're at lunch. By doing this, I was able to get seven out of the eight boards engraved. I only have one more left and then I can give them back to Mr. D'alleva.

I also finished up my canvas stand on Thursday this week and took it home. I made the whole thing out of acrylic because the pieces of wood that we had were too small for my design. I think I like the acrylic better anyways.