Andrew's CAS

This week, or couple days due to inclement weather, I focused on my second project for two reasons: I needed to figure out what else I wanted to do and the material to finish my first project had not come in yet. I wanted to do a project that would be usable to me and I decided upon doing a pen case due to to fulfilling that factor, as well as being a leather-working project—something I have wanted to work with for some time. Leather Pile To begin, I had to get some leather. After obtaining my material, I set out towards designing my case in Illustrator as I wanted to use the laser cutter to cut out my design. After cutting the leather with the laser cutter, I had to learn how to use the awls to create the stitching holes along the edges, as well as learn how to properly sew them together. Fortunately for me, Mr. Grisbee was willing and able to teach how to use the leather-working tools we have in La Tinkeria to do my project. Designed Illustrator File Sewing the leather t...

For my project, I decided to design and build a dice tower. A dice tower is used to ensure that the dice are rolled without any manipulation or sleight of hand. I am planning on using walnut and padauk (an orangey colored wood) as the materials for the tower, but the local store did not have the exact pieces and they will come in through Amazon later on this week.   Dice Tower AI File I have had previous experience with Adobe Illustrator, the laser cutter, and other tools that we have in La Tinkeria™ and this project was still difficult as there were many parts that needed to be exact and meet up in order to fit together. I will only have one shot when I use my final materials, so I want to be as precise as possible with my final version.

I have decided to take on a project in order to practice and gain some design skills to create real practical objects. For this project I aim to learn how to create material lists and familiarity with design software, materials, tools, etc. through building a dice tower—a tower that rolls dice unbiasedly. To begin I searched for inspiration projects in order to help determine my direction and what aspects were absolutely necessary for this tower. I then researched different materials to decide on which to use. This process was enlightening as I discovered the different attributes of wood types and the limitations of the equipment at my disposal—laser cutter and cnc cannot cut metal which eliminates that material as a possibility.