Throughout my senior project experience, I found myself returning to my initial question as well as my inspiration and intent for this project. chose to build a bass using nonelectric[…]
Category: Building
CR 5
My essential question for my experience building a bass is does using hand tools and traditional woodworking methods to make a bass create a strong artistic connection between me and[…]
Week 6
On the last official week of the senior project, I got very close to finishing the bass but plan to finish it in the coming week before the presentation. At[…]
Week 5
At the beginning of this week, I made a major mistake, I needed to thin down the headstock enough so the tuners would fit all the way through. Instead of[…]
Ian Reyes Critical Reflection 6
Essential Question: How can reverse engineering help me better understand the way certain electronics work? My original question was how does reverse engineering help me better understand the way[…]
Ian Reyes Critical Reflection 5
Essential Question: How can reverse engineering help me better understand the way certain electronics work? Over the course of my senior project, I have discovered that it is easy[…]
Ian Reyes Reverse Engineering Week 6 post 2
I recently decided to take apart a broken Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini in order to vary my phone knowledge. I started by prying off the back of it which was[…]
Ian Reyes Reverse Engineering Week 6 post 1
I decided to take apart the iPhone SE again because the last time I did, I never confirmed whether or not the problem was in the screen or in the[…]
Week 4
On week four of my senior project, I finished getting the body to shape with files and rasps working on getting out small imperfections and bumps. I then made the[…]
Critical Reflection 4
Throughout this experience, there have been a lot of different experiences that have brought into question my essential question and the way I have framed it. Throughout this process my[…]
Arlo – Updates 6
5/10 Today I finished a knife that I have been working on over the past few days. While working on it, I knew that I wanted to give it, so[…]
Ian Reyes Reverse Engineering Week 5 Post 2
I spent a lot of time this week watching and reading a lot of apple related content. There have been several repair videos I watched in preparation for my iPhone[…]
Ian Reyes Reverse Engineering Week 5 Post 1
I decided to try taking apart an iPhone again, but this time I tried a somewhat more recent model. My sister had an iPhone SE that got damaged after falling[…]
Ian Reyes Critical Reflection 4
Essential Question: How can reverse engineering help me better understand the way certain electronics work? I read an article titled “What is Reverse Engineering and How Does it Work?”[…]
cr3
My essential question has been in this process does use hand tools and traditional woodworking methods create an artistic connection to the instrument I build? As I approach the end[…]
Ian Reyes Reverse Engineering Week 4 Post 2
I recently realized the importance of measurements specifically when it comes to 3D designing, but really in general. I wanted to begin assembling the pieces of my hairdryer on Onshape,[…]
Arlo – Update 5
5/1 Today is the start of May. We have gotten a lot of work done in this project so far, though we are coming to the end of Senior Project.[…]
Ian Reyes Reverse Engineering Week 4 Post 1
This week I decided to take apart some broken Beats headphones that my sister had to see if I could potentially bring it back to life. Unfortunately, I was not[…]
Arlo CR #3 – Sustainability in Design and Blacksmithing
How can we explore and express values of sustainability through the practice of a craft? As Ciro and I have begun to start work blacksmithing, I have begun to reflect[…]
Ian Reyes Critical Reflection 3
Essential Question: How can reverse engineering help me better understand the way certain electronics work? In the projects that I’ve been doing, I’ve noticed that there is a lot I[…]
Week 3
This week i got a lot of work done, I glued the fret board onto the the neck. The fret board blank I was using was oversize and not[…]
Arlo Critical Reflection 2 – Brick Laying
How can we explore and express values of sustainability through the practice of a craft? This week we built the brick structure for the forge. Going into this project, I[…]
Ian Reyes Reverse Engineering Week 3 Post 2
I have been doing some more CAD design this week and was finally able to make the virtual hairdryer handles look a bit more like the real ones. I saw[…]
Ian Reyes Reverse Engineering Week 3 Post 1
I decided to take apart an iPhone 4 that my mom used to own, and since it was already broken, I figured it wouldn’t be a problem to open it[…]
CR 2
Going into the project my essential question has been Does using hand tools and traditional woodworking methods to make a bass create a strong artistic connection between me and the[…]
Arlo – Update 4
4/24 Today we finally finished the setup for the forge area. We have finished the bricks, the structure, the post for the leg vise, the forge, and the anvil stumps.[…]
Ian Reyes Critical Reflection 2
Essential Question: How can reverse engineering help me better understand the way certain electronics work? As I have come to discover these past couple weeks, 3D design is an integral[…]
Ian Reyes Reverse Engineering Week 2 Post 2
I’ve been spending a good amount of time recently focusing more of on the computer-aided design (CAD) aspect of reverse engineering. Since I managed to take apart the hairdryer, I[…]
work days 7- 9
I am starting to get close to the end of building this neck i used a saw rasp to get the neck to first the right thickness then to the[…]
Ian Reyes Reverse Engineering Week 2 Post 1
I started this week by attempting to open up a faulty hairdryer in my home. After trying the first few days to get it open, I was only able to[…]
Update #3
We recently started making hammer handles for the hammer heads that we will create when the forge is totally built. We have been using pieces of hickory that arlos father[…]
Update #2
Recently, we have been working to modify and refurbish the old forge blower that was given to us. We have done this by scraping off all the thick sooty residue[…]
Arlo Critical Reflection 1 – Blacksmithing w/ Ciro
How can we explore and express values of sustainability through the practice of a craft? So far in this project, we have spent significant amounts of time working but remain[…]
Arlo Update #3
4/15 We have now put up the skeleton of the outdoor structure. It is a 7’ x 10’ sideless, slanted roof structure that is 8’ tall on one side and[…]
Arlo Update #2
4/12 Since the last blog post, Ciro and I have gotten quite a bit done. At the end of the day on Friday, we cleaned the air blower we received[…]
Arlo Update #1
4/10 So far, this project has been going steadily but behind schedule due to poor weather conditions. On the first day, Ciro and I attempted to make our own lumber[…]
CR 1
My essential question is Does using hand tools and traditional woodworking methods to make a bass create a strong artistic connection between me and the instrument? Ever since I was[…]
Ian Reyes Critical Reflection 1
Essential Question: How can reverse engineering help me better understand the way certain electronics work? I already know that reverse engineering is a form of engineering that allows you to[…]
Work day 3-6
On day three of my project, I worked on making the volume knobs out of the same wood I was using for the neck of the bass. I started with[…]
Update #1
As of now we are continuing work on the forge structure. Specifically, we have dug and poured the concrete anchors that will hold the posts for our roof. We have[…]
Reverse Engineering Day 4
I decided to take a break with electronics today and did a bit of reading and designing. I started to read a book called Reverse Engineering for Beginners which mainly[…]
Work Days 1 and 2
On the first day of my project started researching luthiery and the process of bass building. In my research, I got an idea of what needed to be done first[…]
Reverse Engineering Day 3
I woke up this morning and thought to myself, “what if I tried to take apart my PS4 one more time,” and that’s exactly what I did today. After two[…]
Reverse Engineering Day 2
Today was a lot more productive than yesterday. I started out by attempting to open up the PS4 once more, but again, to no avail. After that, I decided to[…]
Reverse Engineering Day 1
A had watched various videos before of people taking apart Playstations, and they were always done with such ease, that I figured it couldn’t possibly be as hard to do.[…]
Intro to Ian’s Reverse Engineering Project
Essential Question How can reverse engineering help me better understand the way certain electronics work? Statement of Definition For my Senior Project, I will be taking apart various broken electronics[…]
Final Proposal: Building a Bass Using Hand Tools and Traditional Methods
Essential Question: Does using hand tools and traditional woodworking methods to make a bass create a strong artistic connection between me and the instrument? Statement of Definition: For my Senior[…]
Senior Project Proposal
FINAL PROPOSAL Name: Arlo Metzger Project Name: Blacksmithing Essential Question This should be the current, clearest version of your essential question. How can we explore and express values[…]