At the beginning, I was making a flower. A flower represents my personality. Every petal shows my development that will never stop, always advancing progressively. However, when I started to work on the flower, it transformed into a new specimen, a pineap...
This week, my project was about the electricity. I decorated the tiny light bulbs inside my pineapple. The light bulds were very tiny and also the wires were a string like a thread. I sewed the thread into my pineapple and set it into a circuit so the lig...
Biomimicry is taking natures best ideas then imitating the design processes to solve human problems. They take what they learn about nature and find out what works, what is appropriate, and most importantly, what lasts here on Earth. Biomimicry is imitati...
last thursday our group of interns presented the cell phone holder to a lady name Pam. Pam has. is a disease that unable pam to limit the use of her arms, she cannot use her legs, she is only able to use her head to move her electric wheel chair. Pam̵...
I started out by sketching a basic concept. Then I used Adobe Illustrator to draw out the parts of the doll. I sent it to the Epilog Engraver to cut out the pieces out of wood, and used string and glue to join everything together. Originally, I designed m...
I’m a little late but, on Thursday (7/17), I learned about circuits and used it to trick out my backpack. It didn’t work out so well because for some reason the little LED lights only occasionally light up. I’m guessing some of the strin...
For my design, I originally sketched out a house because I couldn’t think of anything else. But then it expanded to a castle with people and a dragon on top of it along with a moat. There are little windows on the castle to look inside of it and see...
Given by Mr. Steven Schmitdkey from the US Gensus Bureau. 🙂 -How to map using a device: Press the menu button and it’ll say GO TO/CREATE/VIEW 1. Create waypoint 01 2. Erase previous track (Select tracks on view menu and delete, Press escape 3 tim...
This summer at the fab lab, I learned a lot of things, especially when it came to applications such as Abode Illustrator. I had been using Illustrator for three years at my high school, but during these past few months I’ve learned about tools that ...
Today we learned the purpose of the Fab lab. By using my imagination and with the help of the computer software Adobe Illustrator CS3, I was able to create a name plate. Different tools like the laser printer outlined my idea and with the ShopBot, I was a...
Mrs. Shalauh told us about high blood pressure also diabetes and hypertention,stress. Also we learned what not to eat what to eat like choosing boiled eggs instead of scrambled eggs. She took my blood pressure and found that I’m in the 17 range. I&#...
First I would like to say interviewing someone not from the (U.S) in entertainging somehow. I can say that we all as a group got alot of the question arcross, that means we were able to get the person named John to participate and to understand what quest...
What happen yesturday? that’s a good question. Well for starters it was so hot in so many backrounds of people where in the fab lab yesturday it was weird. so we had to get our work in go to City Heights community libary it was very fun in it wasn&#...
In my personal project, I incorporated the use of laser etching and vector paths through Adobe Illustrator to create my hand drawing into a clean wood drawing. I then added my signature on the top left corner of the board by transferring paths from Adobe ...
In this project, I got a black shirt, thanks to Blas, and simply made a messy look from the use of fabric paint. I decided to take the colors red, baby blue, gold, dark blue, and light green to make a this look, but it accidentally came out looking like a...
In our structure team, Esteban told us to make an improvised presfit structure from a 12″ by 12″ wood. Our goal was to make it as tall as we could within the time we were given. This was a new challenge to me because I wasn’t quite sure ...
I orignally planned to design a structure hand as a symbol for the community’s helping hand, but then I completely changed course, and made a different sketch. I imagined a structure that stood up through presfit, and at the very top, there would be...
Earlier this week, Steven Schmitdkey from the US Census Bureau came to talk to us about how to use the GPS he loaned to us, and about some things to keep in mind when we go to Mission Trails. He explained lots of things and I have to admit, there were so ...
I’m absolutely exhausted from all of the work that my high school’s yearbook staff and I have done. I haven’t had time to post up any blog because of how busy we were (jumping from one place to another). Im excited that I’ll be bac...
So far in our structure team, we have made our first complete- laser-cut model of the structure. The fitting is only loose because the Laser Cutting Machine has burned the edges. But once we cut out the structure file for the Shop Bot, it will fit perfect...
I have never had any kind of work experience nor have been involved in any internship. Being my first time as an intern at the Fab Lab, I feel that it was one of the best choices I have made so far in my high school years. I did not intentionally aim to c...
At the beginning, I was making a flower. A flower represents my personality. Every petal shows my development that will never stop, always advancing progressively. However, when I started to work on the flower, it transformed into a new specimen, a pineap...
