David Baker Capstone
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For our capstone we created an indoor pitching mound. Nick and I have been playing baseball together for as long as I can remember, it was great to continue throughout high school. Our capstone to relate to baseball, because we wanted to give back to the team we play for throughout our high school career.
Constructing the pitcher's mound was harder than we anticipated. We knew the overall dimensions of the mound before we started building, and we had most of the building supplies in school. Moving all of the wood was hard work. Once we finished moving all of the supplies we had to sketch our design. The dimension of our mound is 4’x8’x10”. We spent a lot of our time in the makerspace, becoming certified on almost all of the equipment was very rewarding because it allows me to use the tools for other projects in the future.
The hardest part of creating our mound was creating the ramp. We made this process easier by creating the mound in two parts. There was top box you would stand on and that was 4’x3’. The ramp was the hard part and had to cut at a 20° angle. We originally tried to cut this with a circular saw but the blade did not cut all the through the wood. So we resorted to cutting it on the table saw and this was difficult because we had to create a sled to cut the wood on an angle.
Assembling the two pieces was a piece of cake. If we had to do something for this project. I would probably. Use grip tape instead of the turf. The turf really does make it look nice but if you are wearing normal sneakers you will slide, I think this could have been prevented by just using grip tape.
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