The objective of this group project was to prototype, design, make, and sell an item at the annual Lane Tech Holiday Bazaar in order to fundraise money for our computer science classes. My group decided to create Lane Tech pins as we felt that it would be an object that anyone and everyone would enjoy.

It actually took us quite a while to decide on a design for our pins. We had many ideas that we wanted to incorporate into the pins but we also had to strategize because we didn't want to waste most of our budget on just buying the materials so we settled on designing one pin instead of two.

We used red on white laser-able acrylic, Butterfly Clutch Tie Tacks Pin Backs, and an adhesive glue that was used in order to glue the pins onto the back of the acrylic. We also used a laser cutter in order to etch and cut out the pins as well as the website www.inventables.com in order to find the specific acrylic that we desired.

We faced many challenges during the process of this project. One of the main problems was trying to get the laser cutter to cut out our Christmas Tree pins. We had to change the power settings for the laser cutter multiple times because the machine would either burn our material or not cut anything out at all. Because we had to use the laser cutter many times, we wasted a lot of material as well as valuable time, so we ended up getting rid of the Christmas Tree pins.