Red Flag 3/28

Over the past week I have done a lot of hands on work. I worked on my project for about 8 hours hands on and got a lot done. I cut the parts that are going on the back of the tv out and am now getting it ready to drill the holes for the screws in the back of the tv. this is a lot of work because i have to use a tap and dye set to put threads in the drilled holes. I met with my mentor last Friday and we talked about how my blog was going and what my plans were for the next week. I was in class this week. I did not use my journal we went over how everyone's project was going. I think that my fulfillment of my WISE requirements was just ok because I got a lot of work done but I did not really journal through the steps of what I was doing so I missed out on a lot of good journals I could have done.

Red flag 3/21

Over the last week I have spent about 6-7 hours hands on working on my project. I got the metal that I need for the project and have started drawing it out and getting it ready to be cut. The rest of the time I spent working on my project I was either in class or having a mentor meeting. I did not do much research over this week because my past couple weeks I have done most of the research that was needed to move forward in my project. I had a mentor meeting this week we talked about where I was getting the metal from and what I had planned to have done in this week. I have completed most of my goals for the week I wanted to have everything cut out but it is more time consuming than I thought it would be getting everything laid out and ready to cut but now that I have that done I should be able to start cutting very soon. I was in class this Monday and we did the gleaming from the past assignment. I blogged about that and I would really like to start posting pictures of what I have done so far as soon as possible. Once I start cutting the pieces out I will post pictures of them. My plan for the next week are to get everything ready to be out together by the end of next week.

Monday Class 3/18

2-3 Gems of the Project

The pictures that he put in his journal were a very good part of his project. He did step by step drawings of what he was going to do and then he would put step by step pictures of what he did in there with a good description of what was going to happen/ happening in the drawings and pictures. He also did a good description of what his plans were for the project.

2-3 oops.

He did a hand written journal so some of his journals  were kind of hard to read his hand writing and when he was not doing his step by step of what he was doing for the snowboard his journals were very boring to read.

Things that I’m going to borrow from his project are the step by step pictures and drawings. The step by step pictures will work very well in my blog because there will be lots of steps into making the TV mount and I will be able to show that by doing step by step pictures and then describing what is happening in the pictures.

 

Red Flag

This week I figured out where to get the metal for the tv mount but I have been very busy and have not found much time to order it and start cutting. Lacrosse started this week so I have been very busy with that. I do not think that I will complete my goal of getting some of the parts cut out for the week so I am moving that to my goal for next week. I've done a lot of research on where I get the metal from and I have decided that the best option would be huan welding supply. I have had one mentor meeting this week and we talked about getting all the priced cut out and how I am going to do that. I am pretty sure that by next week I can have enough time to have all the pieces by the next red flag class.

Welding Supply

Today I did some research on where would be the best place to order my metal from. There are a couple places in Ithaca that sell welding supplies such as argas welding supply and tractor supply but both of these places are expensive. The place that I found was the best is huan welding supply. The only difference with huan is I will have to call and get the metal needed delivered instead of going to the store to buy it but at huan welding supply the prices are much cheaper because that are a metal manufacturing company and actually make the metal right there at there shop.

Red Flag

This week we got a torchmate in the welding shop so for hands on I just practiced using that so once I get good at it I can cut the pieces out on the torchmate. This week I wanted to have the prices cut out using the hand plasma cutter but I did not get that done because the torchmate will cut all the parts out so much better then I would by hand. I have done tons of research on how to use the torchmate software and the CAD that the torchmate designs run off of. I've watch many torchmate videos and tutorials that have helped me a lot in using the CAD program. I am meeting with my mentor today 6th period for this week. My plans for the next week are to have the CAD program all figured out so that I can cut the parts out of the metal that I need for the tv mount.

Torchmate 2

Yesterday I did a lot of research on the torchmate watched some instructional videos and read all about it and today I started to use it. After doing all the research it is much easier to use. I think that by next week I will be familiar enough with it to start cutting out the pieces for the tv mount.

Torchmate

Today at TST BOCES we got a new machine called a torchmate this machine can cut anything out of metal that I put into the computer using CAD. This will really help me with cutting out the parts for my project because instead of hand cutting them out with a plasma I can put the dimensions into the computer and it will cut it out perfectly for me. This will save me a lot of time but will take some time because I will have to research CAD and get good with CAD before I can use it to cut out any of the pieces of my project.