How I did it
This project had a very limited scope for creativity, but that was a challenge I took on. Usually people would make their maze in a generic rectangle or circle, but, with inspiration from my friend Emily, I decided to make my maze into a pineapple. First, I had to design it in Inventor. This took a considerable amount of time because I have to draw and extrude each individual pathway. Not to mention how long it took to design the pathways in the first place (its very hard to mathematically map out how your pathways should be arranged when your working with an ellipse). But once I was done with that, I moved onto the brand new software(at least it was brand new to me) Fusion 360. There I had to import my Inventor file, press some buttons, change some settings, and then had to individually select each and every pathway. That took a long time. Once finished, I saved it to my flash drive and went down to the router. With help from Kaj, I was able to struggle through the process of pressing lots of buttons and aligning the drill thing to the foam in order to finally make and receive my final product.
What I Learned
I did not learn a ton in this station; however, I did learn how to use a new machine: the Router. The Inventor portion of this project was rather easy(too easy for me in fact, and that's why I decided to spice it up a bit with creating a pineapple shape instead of just using a generic one). And yes fusion 360 was completely new also, but with the help of my computer neighbors everything turned just fine. Although, it did take a long long long time to select all those pathways. But learning to use the router was probably the biggest thing I learned how to use in this project. It was not terribly hard as I people to help me with it. The hardest part was probably zeroing the z axis, but other than that it was great. I liked this project, and am proud of what I accomplished in it.