Upcycle Progress 2020 – Aesthetics of Design

While thinking through how I was going to tackle my single cardboard challenge project, I realized quickly that I would need to create a template for the main body. I wanted to think out how I was going to have everything from a single piece, so in my head I pictured layers stacked on top…

Upcycle Progress: The Everything Drawer

February 10, 2020

Paul Tapsall

At this point, I have sketched up my idea for my upcycle project and have collected the necessary items from my everything drawer to make my idea come into being. What I will be making with these items is a laser maze. Essentially it will be an organization of mirrors on a board, which the…

Upcycle Progress: Bottle Caps

February 8, 2020

Mary Rahjes

After considering the different ideas that I had for my bottle cap project, I decided to go with creating a bottle out of bottle caps. Once again, thanks to Ben Chang for the idea! Now that I had my idea, I needed to figure out how I would bring it into being. Generally, I had…

Upcycle Progress: Bike Chain Bonsai (Jamie Frankel)

February 7, 2020

Jamie Frankel

Welcome back to my project dear reader. It is a couple days until this project is due and to be honest I feel slightly flustered by the conclusion of this project. I have now cleaned all of the bike and moto-chain, welded the base and one of the branches. As it happens, it is much…

Upcycle Progress: Vintage Cigar Holder

February 6, 2020

Jackson Hootman

All materials for my upcycle project have been selected. I will be utilizing scrap quarter inch black acrylic for the majority of the construction. I have additionally found some scrap wooden rods with enough length to cut 12 six inch pieces. This is just under double what is required. Below is the CAD model I…

Upcycle Progress: Spectre of Torment

February 6, 2020

Kyle Neubarth

Last time of Aesthetic of Design: Upcycling Project… In Magic: the Gathering, many cards with beautiful art go unplayed because they are uncommon, or not good enough. The idea of this project is to laser cut these trading cards and stack them on top of each other, thus blending different iconic artistic styles as well…

Upcycle Progress: Rollercoaster

February 5, 2020

Justin Lim

While I have the Solidworks model of what I’d like to initially test, I hope to test new ways to make curved cardboard rails. Here I have the start of the rollercoaster where I plan to have a loop and two turns. I utilized the Integrated Teaching & Learning laser cutters. I did edit…

Upcycle Progress

February 5, 2020

Davis Butte

The latest update with my upcycle project comes as I have decided on a design and purpose for my scheme. I have decided that I’m going to go with the rug idea as the other directions might be better options for a main project sometime. After doing some research on different styles of mats and…

Initial Progress on Upcycle Wallet 2020

February 5, 2020

Will Tse

My weekly progress is going well with my upcycled vinyl billboard wallet. Main concerns were the flexibility of the material, its work-ability compared to leather, and its structure. All of these concerns seem to not be an issue, with initial progress in sewing the wallet. Figure 1: Initial sewing test, figure shows what one side…

Upcycle progress: Plastic caps art-piece

February 5, 2020

Xiang Luo

For my upcycle project, I’ll be creating an art-piece out of those plastics caps. Right now, I got all my materials: Cardboard, around 1000 bottle caps ( thanks to CU Recycling Facility), and the “glue”. I had taken some of the caps that I got and placed those into a plastic container and soaked with…

Upcycle Progress – Fast Food Wrapper Sculpture

February 5, 2020

Kevin Yang

Currently, I am preparing for the ‘building’ stage of my project. I have accumulated most of the materials I will be using for the project and solidified on general form and shape of the sculpture. My initial thoughts and sketches of the form is displayed below: The final sculpture will consist of an arm gripping…

Upcycle Progress: A Tribute to Ovechkin

February 5, 2020

Zach Aldrich

For my progress report, most of my efforts have been in the theoretical design, as well as determining the minimal amount of beer cans necessary to create the structure without collapse. I have determined this number to be 62 total cans, shown in my sketches below. Since this is a massive amount of beer it…

Upcycle Progress: Egg Shell Egg

February 5, 2020

Nicole Leon-Molina

The egg is going so much better than expected! Among my materials I have: egg shells (tanned and white) white cloth balloons paint brush Elmer’s Glue Also, not pictured, I used a plastic cup to hold my egg in place, a lid to pour the glue, and a hair tie to secure the cloth around…

Upcycle Progress: Garden Planter

February 5, 2020

Austin Maes

Moving forward into my garden plant box, I took my initial idea and did a few hand sketches to fully figure out what I was planning on doing. I then acquired my materials from Resource located in boulder. I was able to purchase all of my wood for 8 dollars and 50 cents. I was…

Upcycle Progress- Street Art

February 5, 2020

Kaiya Wahl

This is an early stage of the painting. I had made the canvas out of three cut up cardboard pieces that I hot-glued together. I then spent a lot of time laying out the Popsicle sticks and finally hot-glued them to the boards. I then drew out an outline of the painting and made the…

Upcycle Progress – Brake Rotor Clock

February 5, 2020

Noah Verspohl

So Far I have been able to gather all of my materials and I have begun the initial design phase. My project will consist of a front brake rotor from my 2007 CRF 250r dirtbike as the main clock face, black acrylic to fill in the center gap of the rotor and clock movement hardware…

Upscale Progress: Cardboard Cards

February 5, 2020

Emily Jordan

So, as it goes I decided to change the direction of my upscale project. I had originally planned to manufacture my own wooden beads using the wood lathe in the ITLL, however this proved to to not align with the purpose of this project as well as I had originally hoped. First, the quality of…

Upcycle Progress: Plastic Spoon Light

February 5, 2020

Bryan Wong

So far, I’ve started gathering plastic spoons and I’ve collected a few empty soda bottles. I will still need to get a light bulb cord and a light bulb for my project. I’ve also started considering the different shapes I could create. I did some more research on the idea I had for my project…

Upcycle Progress – Folding Table

February 5, 2020

Sarthak Bal

To talk about my progress for the upcycle project, I am currently reviewing a lot of design aspects and needs for the folding table. I realized the needs as follows: Reclining, Height adjusting, Ergonomic enough to work on it whatever the base is, holder for cell phones, attachments to keep important things like charger, cords,…

UpCycle Progress: Hemp Lamp

February 5, 2020

Benjamin Robles

The project I have chosen to go forward with for my UpCycle Project is a hemp lamp constructed from scrap wood and materials found in the ITLL such as wires, light bulbs, and hemp. My main tool for cutting the wood is the laser cutter in the ITLL. I have spent all semester up to…

Upcycle Progress: Upcycled Jacket

February 5, 2020

Victoria Rios

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At first I had no idea what I wanted to do for my up-cycle project, however I love clothes and I really want to get into making wearable technology because that is the future. I realized that I could not make wearables because I didn’t know how to build circuits (now I do!). So I…

Initial Progress: Shotgun Shells Coat Hanger

February 5, 2020

Abdulrahman Nashawi

As of last week, I started gathering material for my project. I have found two pieces of wood in the manufacturing center in the ITLL that I will be using in my coat hanger project. Unfortunately, I was unable to find two similar pieces of wood, but this should be fine since I am going…

Upcycle Progress 2020: Pocket-Sized Sketchpad

February 5, 2020

Justin Engbrecht

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Shortly after making my inspiration post, I found an extremely similar process conducted by a craft-cycle.com user “McKenzie” posted to the site – https://www.craft-cycle.com/upcycled-receipt-notebook-2/ – on August 3rd of last year, with pretty promising results regarding notebook/sketchpad functionality. Reading through this post addressed a lot of my own concerns regarding how I would proceed with…

Upcycle Progress – Northern Lights

February 5, 2020

Hannah Walsh

My biggest hurdle so far is determining the final shape of my project. I originally imagined a spherical sun catcher, but since I’m breaking glass and other materials with a hammer, I am unable to make any geometrically symmetric shape. I’m aiming for an ornament resembling a sphere, so there will be no sharp edges…

Initial Progress on Upcycle: “Kawaii” – Kirby

February 5, 2020

Thomas Buckholtz

My upcycling project is a sculpture of Kirby, laser-cut from cardboard boxes taken from my workplace’s recycling. After further consideration of how this sculpture will come together, I realize I will likely want to find scrap acrylic and wood from the cutters’ location as well, to give certain features a bit more flair. Here is…

Upcycle Progress // Kensue Kiatoukaysy

February 5, 2020

Kensue Kiatoukaysy

The only progress on my upcycle project so far has been obtaining these large pieces of cardboard. They were sitting somewhere in the house and after a while it took me a while to find where they were hiding. These large cardboard sheets will make it very easy to cut the pieces and layer them…

Upcycle Progress: Two-Way Wallet

February 5, 2020

Davis Robertson

My two-way leather wallet is well under way. For the wallet’s materials, I acquired a leather purse from goodwill and got some pretty strange looks from the cashiers… This purse had nice leather, however was a little lighter than I was hoping. I took the purse apart and drew out the template for each side…

Upcycle Progress: Bookshelf

February 5, 2020

Miles Radakovitz

The first step of things was to restore the sawhorses. I used a wire brush and sandpaper to clean the rust off of the brackets and clean the wood before staining. Raw sawhorses cleaning the brackets cleaned sawhorse right raw sawhorse left. After restoring the sawhorses I played around with how I would orient them.…

Upcycle Progress: Steampunk Fastener Steam Engine

February 4, 2020

George

The upcycling progress is going great. I am gluing all of the fasteners together with a JB Weld Epoxy and some hot glue. One thing that has been difficult is that hot glue is not strong enough, but dries quickly, while the epoxy is definitely strong enough but takes a long time to dry and…

Upcycle Progress: Mycelium

February 3, 2020

Fiona Bell

So far everything has been going well with my mycelium aka I haven’t killed it and I haven’t contaminated it. The following image is a depiction of my planned fabrication process. Mycelium Fabrication Process Unlike the picture above, I already started growing mycelium from store-bought oyster mushrooms. This meant that I could skip step 1…

Upcycle Project 2020: Initial Progress

February 3, 2020

Daniel Straub