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Monday

I finished up 3D printing the rings of the notebook. I sanded them smoothly and then taped them together to see if it'd work. It was messy because of he tape but I was able to get it to work and the papers to flip. Due to the one period I had to work, I decided to spend time sanding the rings more so then it be easier to spray-paint and super-glue. It took me most of the period to finish sanding the rings.

Tuesday

I went back to the notebook and finished up sanding. I wasn't able to spray-paint it this day because Jaspreet wanted help with the PCB of the Word clock. I helped her as the newer one didn't work. We decided to test two PCBs, the first one and the latest one. The first PCB I made worked but it later stopped lighting up due to poor connection. I fixed the pads and copper connections with solder. It worked again for a moment but also stopped after being picked up.

Wednesday

I decided to spray-paint the rings silver and it looked very nice. It turned out slightly shiny but subtle which I liked. After the paint fully dried, I super-glued the rings together. I dried very quickly so I was able to test it and found out that it worked very well. The issue still occurred so Jaspreet went to check the header that we used to connect the LEDs of the Word clock onto the PCB. The old PCB still didn't power the Word clock. I decided to start on Gridfinity. I was juggling that and the Word clock. I used Gridfinity to create the bottom and had to measure the size of the shelf's inside. I had to create paddings for each side of the grid so that it would fit nicely in the draw.

Thursday

My computer didn't turn on immediately due to a random issue with the video card. I was able to get it fixed but it did take up a lot of my time because I was trying to get it fixed by myself first. Mr. L also made updates on my fusion file for Gridfinity. He 3D printed the grid and found that the padding wasn't enough and made the changes in my file already. The only job that I have is to 3D print the grids and create the bins. He advised I looked on Thangs 3D. There are bunch of already created models for Gridfinity. When I get to the bins, he said that I can simply take a photo and extrude it into the filled bin so then once the item is placed in the bin, it would look flush into the bin. When I do 3D print the baseplates, I can only do three rows at a time because I am le to section off each section easily.