Longboard

I've decided to make a longboard and I might possibly start selling them!  

7" top mount trucks with 70mm 79a light blue gel wheels (I'll post pictures  of them on the board  instead of posting a screenshot from amazon) 

Black grip tape has been ordered and I'm checking with some of my spray paint artist friends to see if they'll do a design for the bottom.  

Starting block for longboard (10"x48") 

To make sure my curves were right for a directional board, I went to my local Zumies and traced one of their boards but made extensions since the longest one they had was 40" 

They guy that helped me seemed pretty pumped and I gave him the address to my website. Shout out to you, homie!  

3.3.2016

well... My plywood is not enough layers for a longboard so instead this is just going to be about me completely redoing a board! 

3.4.2016 

Before Longboard Blog Post

Say hello to Clutch! This my friends old drop through board. I road it around and it's a pretty nice board and trucks. You can probably already tell from the picture that I'm getting rid of this pink paint.  

The grip tape cute off before the board ends and I wanted a full grip for aestetics so...

Good bye grip tape! 

My next step is to get this pink off so I can put new grip tape.

Grip tape is really hard to put on but I finally got it on.  

Shockwave Costume

So, I'm a senior in high school, but I also attend votech for engineering classes. Our school has a robotics team called Shockwave (1742). I'm just a helping hand to my peers this year since I was more involved last year, as a junior, when I was supposed to just be a helping hand. Oops. My teacher is familiar with my prop as costume making skills and has given me a special task this year: remake the shockwave mascot costume. Our challenge theme this year is a medieval defense tower type thing, so I'm making sci-fi armor to go over our blue morph suit. 

Front sketch of Shckwave armor

Back sketch of Shockwave armor

Arm piece sketch of Shockwave armor

The orange likes are the direction of LEDs in the suit. The black on the wrist and shoulder are the logo of the team as seen below. The double belts seen on the front and back sketches are utility belts that tools can be placed in to use on the robot. I'm still finishing plans for a helmet and leg pieces. 

I was given football pads to build off of so my design is now being altered to more go with the shape of football pads. Here's what I've done so far. Sorry for the bad quality of the photo. 

Shockwave suit 2016.2.19

2016.2.22: I've gotten the numbers put on the back.  

Shockwave suit 2016.2.22

This project is on hiatus until further notice. Suit needs to be done for contest in late march. Occasional updates will be posted.  

Companion Cube

I'm finally gettin around to doing a project that I've been wanting to do since I got my mill. Make my own companion cube completely from scratch. My own CAD file and everything. Currently, one side is finishing up in the mill and it looks great.  

Companion Cude side during step 3 of 4

One is finally done! Just 5 more to go...  

We were able to cut it down to 2 steps. Second side currently being milled. Started at 1:13. Ended at 3:27. 

Beginning of companion cube side

Half way there! 

We got new bits for our new 1/4 inch collet. I redid the tool path settings so we can use a 1/2 inch bit. Estimated timing had been cut dramatically. 

This bit is terrifying  

Turns out my matchine does not have enough torque for that bit. I changed the settings to use a 1/4 inch bit and it's a lot less intimidating. Hopefully this one does better. The estimated time is still cut a lot more than it was before. 

Started the last side at 6:48 and finished at 9:28 with some pauses to change bits and let the machine cool down. 

Corners are cut to a 45 degree angle. Now it's time for glueing. It's going to be a tricky multi-step process.