W10

Monday: We got our acrylic base with the letters on it. As of now that's what we are planning on sticking to. Its the easiest for us.  We accomplished two things today. The 3D model was a little bit modified to meet the requirements of the acrylic material and we added the lines so its easier bend it up. As far as the other goal we created approximately 3-4 sheets of the material. By using the table saw to cut up the acrylic so we have enough to double up on the base of our project. Using just one sheet would be way too flimsy and not durable to hold the weight that will be in our project.

Tuesday:  Today we had a design of our model that didn't fully finish CNS cutting so we decided to use that as our testing for bending it up. The idea is to use the heat gun around the sides so when it heats up we can be able to bend it. So when we tried it heated up but we used a ruler to bend it up which caused the rest of the design to be uneven and they were unevenly bent. Tomorrow we are going to try finding a better and effective strategy to get all of it to be bent together.

Wednesday: Mr. Rojas and I talked about the problem we faced and he showed a better alternative then what we did yesterday. What he did was he took pieces of wood and aligned it well with everything so it can all be bent in one motion. Which that's what we were supposed to do. After we figured that out, we finalized our bill of materials because we need to figure out the technological parts of the project. As we went through it all we came to the conclusions that getting a sheet metal bender will be very effective for our project because it will allow us to make our project precise and evenly distributed.  

Thursday: We cut pieces for the acrylic for the final build. 

Friday: Today we confirmed which software we are going to use for our project.