Fall 2025 Semester has ended

The semester ended, for me on December 8. I had both of my *finals* that day. 
First up was Beginning Metals where I presented my spinner ring. The brief was to create something that represented a social norm dysfunction and oh, it also had to have a hollow component. I decided to make a artsy-fartsy ring that was also a fidget/spinner. A person could wear the ring when at work or out an event and play with it and (hopefully) not get looked at for playing with a spinner *toy*.    I drew my prototype in Rhino as an personal challenge.  Then I set out to make it. Even though I knew I could do make it during class time since we had over 3 weeks to work on it, I did most of the work at home, in my studio because I found the noise of the class distracting when I really needed to focus - such as when soldering. What I did in class what sawing, filing, and some prototyping.   I received an A in the class and here is a picture of the ring

Next, I had the final in Digital Fabrication where I had 2 things to submit although only one was the actual final. 
The non-final project had 2 parts which was to model, in Rhino a real life object of our choice and then 3D print it. We had to submit our model, with dimensions, with the actual object and the printed object so she could measure it.  The second part was to alter the model into something else and print that too and of course submit it. I decided to model a bobbin for my sewing machine. For the altered item, I massively enlarged it and turned it into a spool holder. 
The actual final was the model, again in Rhino, something we enjoy. We would use the laser cutter to cut it out and engrave into the wood and then inlay different wood veneers.  I, again, got an A in this class. Here are the rendered models and the final pieces.