Ashwin Drafting Jan. 17, 2025
It has been such a blast creating and learning things in drafting. I have learned many new skills like how to use the cricket machine and the 3d printer and the laser box and many other things. In drafting, we had to create a wind turbine, create things with the cricket machine, and create a balloon-powered car. There were some ups and downs where the 3d printing messed up or I forgot to add supports but that’s ok because I went back fixed it and created it properly.
Here are some pictures of the things I have created. This is a picture of our project using the laser cutting machine.
Here is a picture of the soccer ball I created using the 3d printer
And here is a picture of the balloon-powered car that I created also using the 3d printer
In conclusion, I have enjoyed creating things in drafting and learning more and more skills and I can’t wait to learn and create more.
Ashwin Drafting part 2 Feb.26,2025
For drafting, we were informed that we had to start our passion project, which is a big STEAM assignment. Each STEAM student has to create a project in one of the STEAM categories: science, technology, engineering, art, and math. For this assignment, we had the choice to either work alone or with a partner, so for the passion project, Sam and I teamed up. First, we considered making many mini-assignments instead of one big one. But then Sam had a great idea and suggested that we make a project on dnd considering we both have played it and like it. I thought that was a brilliant idea and we started brainstorming. Sam had suggested that a lot of DND involves dice so we were thinking of maki g a dice but we’re in STEAM so we were going to think abstract so we thought of rigging the dice by putting a magnet inside a certain number so when we roll it onto a magnet the magnet inside the dice will stick and rig it. Then we were thinking if we make a dice then we should make a dnd dice tower. If you don’t know what that is, it’s a tower where you put the dice into, and it would roll around and spit the dice out from its mouth so we agreed on that. Then we thought about making some 3d printed maps where it’s like a certain area and each map would be different, lime the jungle and dessert, etc. The final thing we agreed on making were mini characters like goblins and dragons that are in DND. overall I think this would be a great and fun project and I can’t wait to get started. I do not have any pictures of the current project since we have not started but I will keep on updating this page with pictures of the progress we are at.