In the previous post, I mentioned having a printed worksheet to accompany the online upload process for book reviews. This week, I would like to present what I have put together and what my thoughts are for moving forward with this idea. Here’s a look at the layout I designed: The entire worksheet is an 11 x 17 page, printed and folded along dotted lines. I think it’s important to keep the format a size that […]
Now that we’ve become familiar with the wooden lathe, it’s time to get to know the metal lathe. Apparently, this is the most dangerous machine in the shop, yikes! The material we are stating with is aluminium. In order to spin material on the lathe, we first have to cut a small piece off the long aluminium rod. The material needs to be secured 1000% in the lathe. Once it’s secured, it’s safe to […]
If you would have shown me this picture and told me a month ago, actually, even a week ago, that I would make that, I would have never believed you. I kind of still can’t believe I was able to make a real bowl on the lathe, but I can say for a fact that I had the best time and also discovered that I have the bug for this machine. This is where the […]
This week we were given an awesome assignment to make foosball players on the lathe. I (stubbornly) wanted to try something a little different and also experiment with lathe, so I decided to try and make an ice cream player. This “turned” out to be a very long trial-and-error session — it took six spins to get this right! My initial attempt was to make a cone shape and half a sphere separately, and to […]
A few weeks ago we were introduced to the lathe. This is a completely new tool to me, and honestly, when Ben first demonstrated how it works, I was a bit terrified. What the lathe does is spin material (wood in our case) at a very high speed, while the crafter removes material away with tools very carefully. Here’s what it looks like. Our assignment was to build a handle based on measurements. Here’s the sketch […]
This week we were asked to map the closest cities and amphiteaters to Rome according to expenses in our dataset. I started working on this, and understand everything up to the point I’m up to. In other words, I understand that in order to create a map of this specific data I need to subset information from the larger dataset, however, it’s not very clear to me how to make the actual map. Here’s a […]
This week I tried playing around with the igraph package in R. This package helps “connect the dots” between nodes and edges — or in other words, a specific point and a path connecting between two points. I have to admit that I did not enjoy using this package as it is not intuitive or documented very well. With the help of the Stack Overflow forum, I was able to create the plot above . […]
Building an online class library is not as simple a task as I had initially imagined it to be. There are so many details that relate to the young audience’s scholastic capabilities that differentiate such a platform from many other content-browsing and uploading sites out there. The trickiest issues I’ve encountered in creating an online class library for young students are: figuring out the balance between browsing content and creating content building a system for creating content that has been approved […]
For this assignment, I’ll be creating a virtual tour of amphitheaters in Italy, and allowing the user to visit external links, such as Wikipedia to find out more information on the specific location. This will be put together using CartoDB and Odyssey.js. To do this, I will create a subset of data from the main dataset of Amphitheaters, turn that subset into a geoJSON file, upload it to CartoDB, clean it up and perhaps add […]
I’ve been cooking with fresh spices since the day I learned to fry an egg. Nothing beats fresh basil as a topping for pizza, or snipped fresh coriander to dash a warm bowl of curry. The downside though of fresh spices, is if you buy them packaged from the supermarket, it only takes a few days in the fridge for them to start looking like this: So, it has been my dream for a while to build […]