I have a printed design of all of my skateboard to cut out following the lines and then tpae it all together. This is the
templete that will help in every steps during the skateboard process.
I continued taping and cutting the paper design of the skateboard because the printer leaves a margin when it's printed.
I had to cut off the margins and tape the sides together.
The cardboards have been cut into 4' by 10", each of them are glued with wood glue
one on the other. It was little bit difficult to spread wood glue evenly on the board with a scraper and making sure
that it would not overflow off the skateboard. The board would constantly move out off the place with wet glue on.
The glue is all dried, I traced the templete of my skateboard onto the cardboard and cut. After I finished cutting and
sandpaped everything, and found the midpoint of the board.
According to Dr. Neat's slides about how to make a skateboard, the next step is to find a place where
the trucks would be on the skateboard. I took photos of steps of the skateboard.
Using a templete to drill holes on the skateboard with a drill press.
Once there is a hole for the trucks to get be on place, I put the trucks in order to test the accuracey of the skateboard. I rolled the board
down the hallways on a straight tape three times. The skateboard was off by 4 inches on the first and second trial, and 3.5 inches for the third with
an average of 3.83
The website gradeing will be this week and I forgot to take a picture of my skateboard with trucks. My final step is to get the trucks of the
skateboard have a proof that I will move on to the wood process for the board.
I checked links on my website to make sure every links work out. I have not decide if I want to buy
the trucks or not. The main thing that I had to do today was to make sure all the entries are filled in and a lot of the
entries were missing since I was mostly working on the skateboard instead of website.
I decide to not buy the trucks and not work on the skateboard because I know that I will not use if often and probably keep in my
closet for rest of the year. While others work on the cars and the skateboards, I worked on the website so I don't
have to rush through for the next grading week.
Dr. Neat said those who are not buying the trucks can decorate or paint cardboard version of the skateboard. I have to think
of some designs that I will use to paint the board.
For the Wednesday challenge, the class is divided into groups of two as one instructor and one builder. The class needs to collaborate
to build a given model on a handout. Instructor must lead the builder who is blindfolded.
The wifi was down so I couldn't log in to my computer. I wrote the Wednesday challenge form on my phone and finished work
from other classes.
I had to work on the website for next week grading. My laptop runs out of battery quickly so I had to fill out the Wednesday Challenge
form on a paper. I will type it at home at send the pdf file to the google drive.
The final for this class will be on friday of this week. It is to filter a cup of dirty water with lot of components in them. The bottle is
provided as a funnel. The materials must be found on the campus.
I started looking for water filterating ideas on google. My basic plan is to get charcoarl, sand, and rock with coffee beween each layer
of the components. The problem is that charcoal can't be found in the campus. Mr. Miller offered us a way to make charcoal using metal pipe
and adding heat to it so the wood inside the pipe could burn into charcoal.
Arthur and I searched for the items that we need for the filter at school. We picked up some rocks, I was able to
get sand from the track field. We had to make sure the materials are washed and clean to get dirt off. Our group counld't
get the pipe because there wasn't enough and had to make up somehow for the component.
Most of the groups were able to work on their charcoal today by filling in the pipes with wood. My partner and I worked on the
building part but we planned to have the charcoal as the first bottom layer. Mr. Miller allowed us to come either lunch or afterschool, so
I finished making the charcoal afterschool.
Water filtering group will be doing our tests with the filter we made. Arthur and I got extra time to build since we couldn't finish
the charcoal while others were testing. I built the filter as the way I planned it and