Monday, January 25Today Scott showed the kids who are working on CAD and Machining for the starter project how to use the Lathe. A Lathe is a machine used for shaping wood, metal or other materials by means of a rotating drive that turns the piece being worked on against different cutting tools. After we learned how to use it, and tried it out a little, Rachel and I started to work on the Nut again but this time, on the Lathe. Making a cylinder to start it out. Tuesday, January 26On the 26th Rachel and I continued to work on the nut. I know we've been working on it longer then expected, but it is our first time using the machines so not only do we want to use them correctly, but we also want to make our work good quality. So the main thing we did today was shave off the sides of the nut, so the nut was a cylinder, it now has the shape of a polygon. Wednesday, January 27Today we finished the nut. We made the hole in the middle of the Polygon shape(nut), and from there Rachel and I made the grooves inside of the hole so it can attach to the Bolt when you twist it on. After finishing the nut, I started to work on the bolt. Again we used AutoDesk Inventor to create a virtual bolt I will be creating. I finished making it online, but didn't have time to go farther with it. Thursday, January 28On Thursday I was kind of distracted. I was working on this blog, but was really tired so it was hard for me to focus. I ended up working on the blog the entire time, which I could have also worked on the bolt for part of the time. I've been really on task for the past two weeks and I think this was just a one day kind of hiccup. I know this won't happen often, I just was really tired which caused my distraction. Friday, January 29Today I started up with the bolt again, trying to turn the virtual example into a drawing of it, but couldn't figure it out. Before I could fix it, Scott asked me to help Ivan make his bolt on the Mill, so I did. I helped show Ivan how to get set up (me remembering and learning along the way again) and also got him started on making the head of the bolt a polygon shape. This took up the entire time, since we only had one period due to the rest of the time we were outside at the bay.
I took photos of my progress but they are all on Ivan's phone. I will update my blog when I get them to show my work.
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