Foundations of engineering
Box Project Brief.pdfBuilding a Box!
Today our teacher told us we are going to learn how to use the tools in the lab by building a box.
table saw
Sawstop safety
wear safety goggles to protect eyes from saw dust. refrain from wearing baggy clothes. use either the rip fence or the miter gauge, to hold wood at an angle. use the feather board for safety precautions.
Don't:
Put your fingers in the bade when it is moving. Cross cut with fence. Don't stand in front of the blade.
What I made
Today we cut the wood down on each side using the table saw, above is a picture of my cut wood using a rip cut.
how the saw works
how it works. the table saw has a blade mounted under the table and it spins forward to cut wood
cad is computer aided design Computer-aided design is the use of computers to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design.
cam is computer aided manufacturing and is the use of software to control machine tools and related ones in the manufacturing of work
tool path The path through space that the tip of a cutting tool follows on its way to producing the desired geometry of the work piece.
g-code is geometric code= tells us where we need to travel
The x-axis and y-axis represent the first two dimensions; the z-axis, the third dimension.
Safety: wear safety glasses, wear ear protection, secure your material (with screws or clamps), design around your screws or clamps.
cnc router
vcarve pro creates the file that will be used to design and the shop bot creates the design.
today, I carved my middle name on a piece of wood.
Planer
Planer: what it does and planer
removes a thin layer of wood every time it passes through, makes the wood smoother.
what I made
today, we used the wood planer to shave off the rough sides of our wood pieces for our boxes
safety: Don't:
wear ear protection and wear safety glasses put fingers near opening
adjust the cutting thickness to within 1/16" of the material thickness prior to cutting pass any material but wood
unplug when finished
attach the vacuum before use
miter saw safety:
wear safety glasses
firmly secure the material with your hand placement line and up against the fence
vacuum after use
unplug the saw after use
reduce exposure to blade
don't touch or manually move the blade guard
don't cut material that requires your hand to be inside of the hand placement line
don't plug in the saw with cord across the body
don't measure while material is on the saw
Miter saw
what I did. i had to shave off part of my sides with the miter saw so that My pieces could fit together to make the box
A miter saw is a saw used to make accurate crosscuts and miters in a work piece by positioning a mounted blade onto a board.
biscuit jointer safety
Do
wear safety glasses
make sure it is set fir the appropriate size of biscuit
make sure you set the middle of the material
mark both sides of the material
clamp a box in front of material each time
A biscuit jointer, sometimes referred to as a biscuit joiner, cuts notches in both pieces of wood you wish to join, into which you insert and glue a biscuit. The resultant joints are strong and reliable, preventing any lateral movement in your work piece.
what I did
today, I dry fitted then jointed all of my pieces with the biscuit jointer. after that, I glued the pieces together to make the box.
Orbital sander:
The vibrations in tiny circles on the orbital sander is used for ultra-smooth sanding. We used the orbital sander to smooth the edges on our wood.
what I did:
I continued to smooth the edges of my box with the orbital sander. I smoothed the sides once, put on wood filler in the cracks, then smoothed the sides again to make sure that all the sides were even and smooth.
safety Always wear eye protection and a sanding mask.
Make sure that the tool is switched off or disconnected from the power supply before you attach the sandpaper. The item you’re sanding should be properly secured before you begin. Ensure you have a firm grip on the handle of the sander before turning it on. The sander should be kept flat and should be constantly moving as you work. Any ventilation slots of the sander should be kept clear of dust and debris. Don’t press down when sanding. When you’ve finished, life the sander off the wood, turn it off, and wait for it to stop spinning before storing it away. Clean after use.
wood staining.: Stain can be applied with a bristle brush, a foam brush, or a cloth. We Used a cloth. On woods with large, open pores, such as oak, mahogany and ash, increase the pressure to work the stain into the pores. Rubbing or brushing against the direction of the grain will help fill deep pores with stain.
Use safety gloves and cover surface before staining wood.
what I did.: today, I stained and hinge my box together to finalize my box. I stained my box in two different colors, one the outside and a different one on the inside. after staining and letting it dry, I drilled 8 holes into my box to create the spots for the hinges, then drilled in 8 nails into the spots and created the hinges. this is my final result.
Lantern Project
Project Brief
Today we learned that we are doing a lantern prject next
in this project, it looks like we are going to use Arduino and CAD and incorperate the elements and principles of design
benchmarks/Stamps
theses are all of the tasks we are going to do to make our way through out projects
IMG_0862.MOVtoday, we used arduino to code the motherboard to create a color combination with the LEDs identical to a stop light. We used RGB, using Red, Green, and Blue in that order to create the Stop light.
Today, We learned how to use the soldered piece to melt 3 wires on to the Neopixels
WIN_20211103_10_48_12_Pro.mp4Arduino controlled neopixel
after melting on the wires, we used the melted on wires to plug into the motherboard and light our neopixel up.
IMG_0973.MOVToday, I used arduino to help make my lights go into my own design. the old light up process was green lighting up across the line. now, it is a rainbow lightup.
what we did today
Today, we used inkscape to create 6 different shapes and 2 different types of signs. A Yield sign and a Stop sign.
what we did today.
Used Glowforge to cut out CAD file
Today, we used both Inkscape and GlowForge to create and and cut out our shapes for our lanterns. Inkscape was used to create, design, and size our pieces and we used GlowForge to cut out our pieces on cardboard
recorded-1685094588192.mp4What we did today
Today, I finalized my lantern. I glued together my lantern with my shape that I cut out using glowforge and Inkscape. the last part as putting the lights into the box and finalizing the entire box.
final lantern/desktop light
Brief
today we learned that we are going to use the skills that we learned to make the cardboard lanterns to deign a final product. the product can be a window light, a desktop light, or a night light and it will use our same neopixel strip from the original lantern. we will use and demonstrate mastery pf the design process and other skills we have developed.
Research
Starwars light
Starwars light pt2
I like the starwars lights because I have watch all of the movies over and over again and some of the shows and I'm a big fan of starwars
Nintendo light
I like the nintendo light because I grew up playing on nintendo products like the Wii, Nintendo 64, Wii U, DS, and 3DS
Braves light
I like the braves light because its the old school design and I am a die hard braves fan.
Baseball light
in addition to being a die hard braves fan, I'm also an avid baseball player. I play 3B/OF for the Atlanta Fuego 16u.
Avatar air bison light
This light is from the show Avatar: the last Airbender. Thisis my favorite show of all time and the character above is the airbison Appa.
The sketch that I made that I would like to do for my light board is a sketch design of baseball Travel team's name/logo. I want to have this as my logo because not only is it the team I play for, but I also love the logo and I want to have a light for it in my room. I would like the base to be more like Ms. White's base, just a bit bigger so that It doesn't fold over because of it's size.