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                                                                       Flower Coasters for my Grandmother   For my coaster holder project, I decided to make coasters for my grandmother that represent her. The first thing I did was take the flowers that my grandmother drew and traced them to put them in Adobe Illustrator. After editing the flowers to my liking, I uploaded them to the laser cutter so I could start prepping my acrylic to become the actual coaster.  While my coaster holders were being designed, I decided to start planning out my coaster holder. For this design, I wanted to do something simple so it wouldn't take away from the actual coasters. So I went with a three-slot coaster holder with a bible quote on each side. After my coasters were done in the laser cutter, I took a minute to look at them to make sure everything turned out well, especially the flowers, afterward I put adhesives felt back so the coasters wouldn't go sliding all over the place when my grandmo

       For my coaster and coaster holder project, I made coasters that have different cities on each. The cities I chose are; St. Louis, Chicago, Austin, and Rome. When I was planning my project I wanted to incorporate something meaningful to me. I came up with the idea of making city skylines from cities that are important to me and my family. Rather than just using a pre-made skyline I decided to create my own skyline. For my coasters, the first thing I did was create my designs in Adobe Illustrator. After a very long process of designing my coasters in Adobe Illustrator, I was finally able to cut them out using the laser cuter. To make my coaster holder, I also used Adobe Illustrator. After I designed my coaster holder in Illustrator I uploaded my design to a website called Easel. After I uploaded my design to Easel I made some finishing touches and then I was able to cut out my coaster holder design using the CNC router. When both my coasters and coaster holder were done I sanded t

My two projects: one of my projects is my coaster and the other is my coaster holder the plan was to make a cute coaster holder that had little things I thought of when I thought about my family  I used a laser cutter and the CNC router to make a hole in my coaster holder so I can glue it together. I liked the fact that even though the drawings I chose didn't come out exactly how I wanted them too they still came out cute and better than I expected and are the perfect size for a cup and they absorb water pretty well. What was challenging about the project in my opinion was definitely the coding and figuring out what size to make certain aspects and having to resize or remove aspects of the coaster so you can fit it on the wood. I would maybe make my art look less pixelated and try to make my coasters a little bigger. I will gift it to my family and let them use it and I will keep one to myself to remember my hard work

Coasters and Coaster Holder  Coaster Holder  Coasters  Coasters and Coaster Holder ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quetzalcoatl Coasters and Coaster Holder My project consists of three coasters and one coaster holder and is themed around the Nahua god Quetzalcoatl. All four designs are various images imported and put together by me. Using a CNC router (A machine specializing in cutting on specific pieces of wood or plastic), and a laser cutter meant for making the actual designs on the coasters and cutting out less precise pieces such as the boundaries of the coasters and coaster holder.  My favorite part of the project was seeing how my work was finally materializing in front of me while it was being engraved with the laser cutter. I also enjoyed researching and planning my project in Adobe Illustrator.  During my journey of making these, I encountered a few challenges, the main one was understandi

      In this project I worked on making Pac-Man themed coasters and a coaster holder to hold them. To make my project, I first started by trying to find a good idea I would be happy with making. It took some time, but after finding a few ideas I chose to make 6 coasters all with different characters or items from Pac-Man. I got reference photos of Pac-Man, two ghosts, one of those scared ghosts, a pixelized strawberry, and the pixelized cherries, all from the internet. Once I put together the reference photos, I got to work on designing what I wanted to laser cut or a software called Adobe Illustrator. The weeks before we started our projects we had been taught how to use Adobe Illustrator, so it wasn't too hard but still a little difficult. It took me around 3 of the 2 hour classes to finish the designs and once I was done I was has happy with the finished  products. I was one of the first to get my design uploaded to google drive and put on the laser printer for engraving. But i