The Last Day…

Hello and welcome back to Andrew’s Articles! Today we will be talking about my last day in Technology with John Calvert.

He was the best and the nicest teacher. He taught us a lot and made us work hard to achieve our goals.

Some of my favorite projects were the soldering piece, and the switches. I liked going out of my comfort zone to use the jigsaw, drill press, and 842º soldering iron.

This will be the end of the tech series, I hope you enjoyed.

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The House ( Prototypes )

Hello and welcome back to Andrew’s Articles! Today I will be talking a about my cardboard house prototypes.

My first consisted of a modern estate, 5 bed and 7 bath. Priced at 2.1 Million Dollars.

I made it over 2 floors, with many windows to let in sunlight. The backyard consisted of a pool, lounge area, and a guest house. The interior contained a dining room with butler kitchen, Main kitchen with island, family room, great room with bar, living room, and a study, along with the 5 bedrooms and 7 bathrooms.

The second estate, a modern mansion. It was valued at 8.4 million dollars. 9 bed, 14 and 1/2 bath.

Consisted of full kitchen with 2 islands, family room, white room, great room,  3 studies, living room with bar, entertainment lounge, 2 movie theaters, and along with the 9 bedrooms and 14 1/2 bathrooms.

You should guess, I want to be a architect.

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Flashlight Craft #3

Hello and welcome back to Andrews’s Articles! Today we will be talking about The finalization of my flashlight.

I soldered my circuit and inserted it into my flashlight and PVC Pipe.

For my PVC Pipe, I drilled 2 holes. One for my switch and one for my actual light. I’d say it worked out well! If well is a good thing!

Today I’m enjoying all the work that I’ve done for Tech, and especially taking Thailand into account for surviving the journey, and for giving us inspiration to build these flashlights.

Im now enjoying my flashlight and all its glory.

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Flashlight Craft ( 2 )

Hello and welcome back to Andrew’s Articles! Today we will be talking about the sketching and planning of my flashlight.

We first practiced drawing and measuring on a blue print, we then moved on to our final draft.

My final draft was so complicated because we had to include where the switch, battery pack and wires would all meet and connect. We then had to cut the wires to the length on our sketches. I have yet to solder my circuit, but I’m in the process. I’ve stripped and hooked the wires that I will need.

I then cut the 3.5 inch pipe that I need, with a motor saw. We had a box that we put the pipe in so it wouldn’t role around while we were cutting it.

Flashlight Craft 3 is coming up next.

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Flashlight Craft ( Part 1 )

Hello and welcome back to Andrew’s Articles! Today we will be talking about the flashlights that we are in the process of making.

On day 1, we started to craft them out of PVC pipe, just testing them to see what kind of design we want for our flashlights. I thought of being simple, and using either a 45º elbow, or a 90º elbow. Then I thought of using a  C-shape.

A C-Shape Contains 2 90º Elbows, with 2 plugs and 3.5 Inch pipe connecting the elbows. The two plugs would go into the other end of the elbows, with a tight seal to keep water out. Our flashlights have to be waterproof, this was inspired by that Thailand issue. 12 boys and a Soccer Coach Were All Trapped an out 4 miles or further down into the cave.

Flashlight Craft 2 is coming up.

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Switches

Hello and welcome back to Andrew’s Articles! Today we will be talking about the cardboard switches that I made.

A switch works were one piece of tinfoil would touch the other piece to form a closed circuit.

My first switch consisted of pulling down a rubber band with a platform with tinfoil on the bottom of it. The platform would hit the base of the cardboard which also has tinfoil glued to the bottom of it. When the two metals touched, they would allow a closed circuit to pass through.

My second switch consisted of looking like a barrier that a car would run into. For example, you would find this at the mall, when you go in & out.

My Third Switch Consisted of 2 platforms standing vertically. One platform was covered with tinfoil, the other platform had a popsicle stick attached by hot glue and a rubber band. The popsicle stick had tinfoil on it, so to activate it, you would have to pull the stick to the other side of the platform with the tinfoil on it.

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Soldering Piece

Hello and welcome back to Andrew’s Articles! Today we will be talking about how I soldered.

We first started with cutting out wires and shaping a design. I choose do the Yves Saint Laurent Logo,

It took me 2 tries to get it to fit and solder perfectly. The first attempts that I performed included me using far to many wires. So then I changed 17 wires to 4 & it worked.

The soldering iron was at first VERY scary, because it was 842º, or 302º Celsius. We held it like a pencil, and not aloud.

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Batteries

Hello and welcome back to Andrew’s Articles! Today we are going to talk about batteries.

Batteries are made up of positive electrons and negative electrons. A battery is a device consisting of one or more electrochemical cells with external connections provided to power electrical devices such as flashlights, mobile phones, and electric cars. When a battery is supplying electric power, its positive terminal is the cathode and its negative terminal is the anode.

The electrodes in the battery contain atoms of certain conducting materials. For instance, in an alkaline battery, the anode is typically made of zinc, and manganese dioxide acts as the cathode. And the electrolyte between and inside those electrodes contains ions.

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Atoms

Hello and welcome back to Andrew’s Articles! Today we will be talking about atoms.

Atoms are far smaller than microscopic. They make up everything on earth, which means that their about the smallest thing on earth.They are a combination of protons, neutrons, and electrons. Atoms are not circles necessarily. They’re many different types of shapes. There are 118 different types of metals that make up atoms.

Their is a central point called the nucleus. In comparison, the atom would have to be the size of a professional football field for the nucleus to be the size of a marble. So the average size of the atom is not seeable, so forget about the nucleus. In addition, atoms have shells with different amounts of electrons on each shell. A full size male has about 7 x 10 to the 27th power or 7000000000000000000000000000 approximately.

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First Day Of Technology ( Breakout )

Hello and welcome back to Andrew’s Articles! Today we are in SMS Technology. New School, New room. The first excited thing that happened in Tech is the Breakout. The breakout consisted of Two teams trying to open three locks each.

I was on the first team. We each had side of the room. They’re were a few rules. You don’t need to open anything, Clues are only on your side hat you were assigned to. We tried a lot of combo’s for the three locks, the only way we ended opening it was because we then decided to work together instead of drifting off into our own land. The three different types of locks were arrow, letter, and number locks. The number lock came first to figure out, then the letter, finally the arrow.  The other team ended up finishing first, through Mr. Calvert clearly said that there was no competition.

Moving on from the breakout, we also had a big discussion over rules of the class. One, never touch a machine without being taught how to use it. Also, don’t leave a machine running if you are not watching over it, and going to get a piece to drill for example. They’re also soldering irons for connection of metal and other materials. Probably the biggest rule is that you must wear safety glasses when doing a project involving machines.

We will have nine more posts of Tech. Atoms is next.

That’s it for this post folks.