Blog Post #7: Atoms (Part 2)

Today we will be talking about atoms… Again! In class today we talked about some people who uncovered the mysteries of what makes our world, or atoms. Democritus was a famous Ancient Greek philosopher who first came up with the ideas of little things called atoms. Later, other sorts of scientists expanded on Democritus’ ideas of atoms. One said that atoms have different shapes. Another said that atoms have different amounts of electrons or protons depending on what material it is. And many more ideas about atoms have been made as well. There has also been a little film made from carbon atoms!

Blog Post #6:

Today, we talked about space and atoms. Well, more like our galaxy. We learned that there are billions of stars and billions of solar systems in those stars. We talked about the Sun and how it’s light takes eight minutes to get to Earth, so when the Sun explodes, we wouldn’t know until eight minutes. We also learned about how if we wanted to see the atoms of a grapefruit, we’d have to increase its mass to make it as big as the Earth. And if we wanted to see what was in the atom, you’d have to expand the atom to the size of a football field. And the things inside of the atom are only one marble in the entire football field so the space between the contents of the atom and the atom itself is filled with nothing because everything is made of atoms.

Blog Post #4: Light Switches

This week, we made light switch levers. The lever must be made for either a toggle switch, a Decora switch, and a Slider. When the lever is attached to your specific light switch, you pull down or up and it will make your light go on or off. I made a decora switch. You will need 2 sides, 1 slider, 2 driver gears, 2 racks, 4 nuts, 2 pinion gears, 2 pins, and 1 bar. You will also need to wax the teach of your gears as well. They’re really fun to make.

Blog Post #3: Cranks

A week ago, we learned about cranks. Cranks are used in bikes, gas runned cars, and basically most modes of transportation. Cranks are wheels and axles connected with a connecter to make an object move. For example, they are used on trains. Have you ever seen a cartoon where a train moves past the screen? Do you remember those little turning rods that are connected to the wheels? Those are cranks in action.

Blog Post #2: Automatas

This week, we are working on these paper machines called, automatas. Well, technically they are automata when you attach something to it and the thing moves. Right now, we haven’t been building, but cutting everything out. The way automatas move is they have a little lever sticking out of a little box. When you turn the lever, little sticks coming out from the top start moving (that’s where you put something to make it an automata). Automatas are really fun to make and are even more fun when you can use your final product.

Blog Post #1: Computers

Computers have only been around for fifty years. When they first came out, they were only used for science and math. Not everyone owned a computer at the ready like we do. Many years ago, before the computers we know today, there were sets of designated people with special math training and education who would solve math problems to  help launch rockets, satelites, and much more. Those groups of people were called computers, hence the name, computer.

Week 9 – Swift Playground: Answers

In my program that I have a picture shown above, I tried to have a conversation, but not really. I created a program that asks what your nickname is, your favorite color, your favorite food, and much more. Although I can ask the questions, The robot only agrees with the person’s answer (I programmed it to do that). I was very challenging to remember to write all the little commands like, “Let”, “show”, and even some quotation marks that are crucial to have the “conversation. I eventually go the hang of things and I made the conversation even longer. It was very interesting that I could make a good, amazing (in my opinion), program.

Swift Playground – Hello, Byte

One person in the video coded an animation that could project onto a surface. Little creatures would be rocking back and forth like a pop-out book. It was interesting how he could make things move just by coding. One girl, Keira, said, “Someone who doesn’t even know code at all, if they really studied some simple Swift code, they would probably be able to understand it.” It inspired me to work harder to improve at coding and aspire to do more with the knowledge that I already have.

Week 7 – Google Sheets

What I put on my spreadsheet was East Asian countries and how much carbon dioxide emissions each country has. The total average amount of emission is 5.6625.

I learned that spreadsheets can order your numbers our data in alphabetical order, least to greatest numbers, greatest to least numbers, and calculate things automatically. I learned that you can highlight your data and the spreadsheets makes a chart according to your data.

These spreadsheets can also be used for keeping track of clients, keeping track of numbers like stocks or data for research as well.