The end of the snow globe… Last week I sat down with my teachers and decided to stop working on the snowglobe project for this year. I fully intend to pick the project back up in the Winter at Wentworth, however, I felt that if I attempted to complete the project in its current state,…
5/5/2023
Unfortunately, this week has been yet another short week with AP tests being this week! Yay… This caused me to be absent from shop for two days this week, and my focus to be a little impaired. However, I did accomplish some things this week such as organizing what I still need to do for…
4/28/2023
This week in shop has been a short week for me with being absent on Thursday and dismissed on Friday. However, I have been working on trying to figure out how to run the wires in and out of the snowglobe, with the issue being that the snowglobe will be filled with mineral oil. I…
4/14/2023
This week in shop I have continued to work on my snowglobe project and help with other things that have needed to be done. This means I cut out a stencil for my friend for his art project, helped organize the sumo robot competition, and worked on a sign for the non-traditional club. The work…
4/6/2023
This week we had a short week with us having Friday (tomorrow) off because of Good Friday. On Monday I began by helping my peer, Grace, with a project she was doing for her friend. She was designing Gobos and had intended to cut on the plasma cutter/water jet. Gobos are (typically) a piece of…
3/31/2023
This week in shop I have been working on a project with Grace, for Mr. L. We have been machining a piece of petal so you can see what threads a screw has. While creating it, we have been documenting the process so that the freshmen/sophomores can recreate it themselves. By making the item they…
3/22/2023
This week in shop I have been working on the base of my snowglobe, and assisting in peer projects. For starters, I began working on the base of my snow globe. On Monday my original plan was to use standoffs for the base, to avoid sending parts to carpentry again for beveled edges that will…
3/17/2023
This week I have been finishing up the PCB Mill Guide, and the decorations for my snowglobe. I was also absent on Wednesday, so I did not have a complete week. We also learned this week that my shop brought in roughly 560 items to donate to the food bank. Overall my vocational school brought…
3/3/2023
This week in shop I have continued working on the decorations for my snowglobe project. I finished the design for both the log cabin and the christmas tree this week and was able to do test cuts of them on Wednesday. I decided to completely redo the front of the log cabin by hand since…
3/10/2023
This week in shop I have taken a small break from my snowglobe project to work on the PCB Mill Guide. However, since I do not have much experience making PCB’s I needed assistance and information from people who had used the machine before. This also meant that I was partially teaching myself how to…
2/17/2023
This week in the shop I have been working on the decoration portion for the inside of the snowglobe, since the acrylic dome is done, and the electronic portion is also done. I began with finding an image of the log cabin as vectors. I then needed to create outlines for where I wanted the…
2/10/2023
This week in shop first and foremost I have been working on my snowglobe project. Last Friday I finally figured out how to do the audio file the way I wanted to. I successfully got the audio file to play as a roughly 2-minute-long wav file on a latch loop. This meant when the power…
2/3/2023
This week in shop I have continued the perceived endless project of my snowglobe. I have been working on the electronic, more specifically the audio for the snowglobe. However, I ran into struggles every process of the way. Some of my issues earlier in the week consisted of not finding an audio file that I…
1/27/2023
This week in the shop I have been working on… My snow globe! I have continued the work I started last week of working on the electronic component of the snow globe. As I found out, we have smaller wires that will fit inside the current reindeer without needing to scale it up. Originally I…
1/20/2023
This week in shop I have been working on my snowglobe project, and working on a small item that Metal Fabrication wanted. The Metal Fabrication shop wanted us to make a stencil of their shop name (Metal Fab) in cardboard so they could use it to spray paint their shop names on things. After receiving…
1/13/2023
This week I have continued the work on my snowglobe. I began Monday by doing another water test and unfortunately found another leak. So, I marked the edge and corner where the leak was occurring and applied more acrylic seal. However, it became a recurring problem that when I did another water test on Tuesday…
1/6/2023
We are back! This week we have returned from the Holiday break which means shop is back in full swing. I have continued the progress on my snowglobe that I could not finish before the break. This began with finishing completely assembling it in acrylic. I needed to tape all of the pieces together before…
12/16/2022
This week in shop has been a bit overwhelming. There is a lot I am trying to get done before winter break and before next week. For starters, I have made a lot of progress with my snowglobe. I cut and glued all of the sides out of cardboard, so that I could see what…
11/23/2022
This week in shop has been a short one, with our only “normal” day being Monday. We had a pep rally on Tuesday, and a half-day on Wednesday. We then had Thursday and Friday off for Thanksgiving. This means that we did not have a lot of time in shop in comparison to other weeks….
11/18/2022
This week in robotics and engineering I have continued to work on the radio knobs for the USS Cassin, and my next machine manual guide, the plasma cutter. I put resin on the radio knobs to secure the inside of the knob in place and cured that to solidify the resin. I also sanded the…
11/10/2022
Unfortunately, I have not been in robotics a lot this week due to the short week and the conference I attended yesterday. On Monday I started working on radio knobs for the USS Cassin and finished my CNC router manual guide. The next step is having Graphic Designs test it. We had no school on…
10/29/2022
This week I finished my brass ring on the lathe, but it was a bit too small so I may end up remaking it. However, I am not sure why it came out too small due to it seems to be a common issue with everyone who has made a ring on the lathe in…
10/21/2022
This week in shop I finished the plaque for a fellow teacher at our school, Mr. Cormio. He teaches Electrical and asked us to make the plaque as a gift for his son, who lost his best friend who was a firefighter. I also started a smaller project, a metal ring on the lathe. Yesterday…
10/14/2022
This week in shop I have been continuing to model the logo that will be put onto a plaque for a firefighter that unfortunately passed away. I have received an updated image from the person who requested us to make this, which has made modeling it easier. I have also sent off the proposal to…
9/29/2022
This week in shop I realized that the golf cart project wasn’t really for me, so I am taking a step back to learn the different machines that we own in our shop before I graduate later this year. So far I know roughly how to use the milling machine and the band saw. Specifically,…
9/22/2022
This week I officially started work on the Golf Cart. I began my sketch on a lever, that will engage a motor attached to the steering shaft, allowing the golf cart to be automated. the idea is that when the lever is pushed the opposite way, the belt will loosen, disengaging the motor by moving…
9/1/2022
We are back! My senior year has officially begun and it is now time to reorganize ourselves, and start figuring out projects that we want to do. This year, the shop is buzzing with activity with all of the added people, and it is surely something that everyone will have to get used to. Thus…
6/13/2022
This last week in shop I finished my Cardboard Canoe, the Queen Ant’s Voyager, and participated in the Cardboard Canoe Race 2022. Overall I enjoyed the race, and enjoyed the process, even if we did not win the actual race. However, we did win the design competition! Our boat was declared the best looking boat…
6/3/2022
This week in shop I continued progress on the Cardboard Canoe for the Cardboard Canoe race. Later today we will be viewing one of our competitions for the race. Currently, we have started waterproofing the boat with Polyurethane, a waterproofing agent. Besides applying Polyurethane, all we have left to do before the boat is done…
5/20/2022
This week in shop I have been working on a Cardboard Canoe for Medford’s Cardboard Canoe race on June 12th, at Wrights Pond. We still need to finish gluing the sides, and cutting another layer of the floor. However, we are going for an ant themed boat, due to the amount of ants that accidentally…
4/7/2022
This week in Robotics we have come across a problem with my current project. I have been working on a project called a zoetrope, which is a board that spins with items on it (in my case, 3D printed flowers) with flashing lights directed at it. The combination of the spinning and flashing creates the…
10/19/2021
Hello! We have started the next school year, my junior year! So far this year we have created safety guides for the machines in shop (I created one for the resin printers) and mainly have worked on learning the electronic guides. This week, I am starting research on a new project, a UV lamp and…
5/7/2021
This week in CAD we switched over to Fusion 360 from Onshape so we worked on a smaller assignment to learn how to use Fusion 360. I also did some catch up work by making this blog! 🙂
5/2/2021-5/5/2022
Hello everyone! This is my first post, and certainly not the last. This week in coding we were working on using real weather data with API. I believe my code came out okay, what do you guys think?
Jacklyn Whealan - Engineering 