Pen Turning And Laser Cutting

Pen Turning Project and Laser Cutting Box

Timeline:

8/28 Laser cut and assembled a personal box to hold my materials.

Image of Assembled Box:

9/1: Started the wood pen project by selecting the wood and cutting it using the wood-cutting machine.

9/3: Finished cutting the wood and glued the pieces together.

9/4: Drilled a hole through the wooden pieces and glued the metal shaft inside.

9/5: Began turning the pen, but one of the wooden pieces broke during the process. I planned to remake that piece the next day.

9/8: Cut a new piece of wood and glued the pieces together again.

9/9: Inserted the metal shaft into the hole and attempted to log in to GitHub.

9/10: Turned the new wooden piece and sanded both sections of the pen.

9/12: Completed the pen by assembling all the pieces together.

Pen Pressing:

Final Product of Pen:

Github

Timeline:

9/15: Started the GitHub video tutorial. Logged into GitHub Desktop, created a new repository, and learned how to create files, commit changes, and push updates locally and to the cloud.

9/16: Reviewed the GitHub tutorial and learned how to perform a pull request. Also learned how to share repositories with collaborators.

Screenshot of Shared Repo with Mr.Dubick:

Owl Soldering Project

Timeline:

9/28: Start on owl project. First practiced soldering on a practice board with 3 resistors. Then began soldering resisters, capacitors, and transistors.

Practice Soldering:

9/29: Began soldering on all the LED’s and the Type-C interface.

Soldering Type-C interface on owl:

9/30: Finish soldering LED’s and surface mount the integrated circuits. At first, the surface mount didn’t work since the solder was touching, but I as able to fix it by using a solder sucker and resoldering. Finished the owl!

Image of Finished Owl:

Capstone Project - Yearbook Digitization

So far in my capstone project, I have made steady progress toward digitizing past Charlotte Latin yearbooks. I began by setting up my yearbook folder on GitHub and configuring the environment for my Landing.ai key to prepare for AI-assisted data extraction. I then understood the workflows for the different new codes, I worked with Mr. Dubick to review the 1975 and 1976 yearbooks, recording page numbers for sports and activities to organize the content structure. I edited YAML files to store this information. Finally, I tested the Landing.ai code for automatically extracting data from grades 6–11 using the YAML file, code file, and the new team Landing.AI key I got.

Timeline:

10/1: Revised and updated daily journals. Researched agents and orchestration techniques in Python.

10/6: Worked with Mr. Dubick to understand the yearbook workflow. Reviewed the 1975 yearbook to record page numbers for sports and activities, organizing them into a list.

10/7: Collected and recorded page numbers for the 1976 yearbook YAML file.

10/9: Tested the team Landing.ai code for grade extraction across grades 6–11.

10/10: Practiced 3D printing by printing a joy fidget toy. Also practiced laser cutting using both auto-focus and manual focus settings.

10/17: Mr.Dubick taught us about setting up Github pages.