Author Archives: David Wheeler

Today, Ethan and I made the front legs. We also added screwed to the body and found some wire that we will use

Today, Ethan and I started class by drawing 2 6×2 boxes on our pieces of wood, we then drew 2 bodies and cut them out.

Today we started working on the real reindeer, we figured out which wood we were going to use and figured out the measurements.

I am a little behind on the daily blogs so I am going to to summarize the past few days in this one. a than and I got inspiration from this cat made by Alexander Calder. Ethan and I laser cut the body of our reindeer, then added the legs. We then added the head …

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Today Ethan and I made our project proposal, then started doing some very simple prototyping with popsicle sticks.

Today, Ethan and I combined our ideas into one and drew some sketches of what our project will look like.

Today Alex and I tried to add the leaves to our butter fly which he finished printing in the last class. We tried to do this by putting in the leaves and hot gluing them down. This was a big failure because the hot glue didn’t dry clearly. We then tried to sand it down …

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Today Alex and I did some planning for our project, we settled on making a butterfly that’s wings would flap when cranked by a handle. Then we made a project proposal in our sketchbooks. We are going to 3D print the butterfly body.

Today Alex and I did some planning for our project, we settled on making a butterfly that’s wings would flap when cranked by a handle. Then we made a project proposal in our sketchbooks. We are going to 3D print the butterfly body. We innovated by seeing a butterfly in the presentation that Mush showed …

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