Monthly Archives: January 2020

After I finished many flashlight other people were still working on theirs so I got to use the laser cutter. I had to use the app Vectornator to design what I wanted to be made. I put my name on it and I’m going to hang it on my bedroom door at my house.

After the circuit was put together I started to put the flashlight together. I had to drill holes into the pipe where the switch and where the lightbulb would pop out of the flashlight. After everything was put together and the flashlight worked I decorated it so I didn’t just look like a white piece of pipe shaped as an “L”. I colored the ends blue and then the tips of it red to make it red, white, and blue.

I started to measure and cut the wires that would make the flashlight work. After I had the wires measured and cut we had to solder them to make a circuit. Soldering the wires was hard because sometimes there wasn’t enough solder or the solder didn’t come out.

We had to make a flashlight and make the switch that makes it work. I’m making mine look like an “L”. I had to draw a diagram with all of the pieces I need.

Here is the diagram:

We had to make a switch that hooks up to a light bulb. For me making the switch was pretty easy it was just that I was cutting the cardboard that I was not cutting it right so it’s took me longer than needed. After I cut the cardboard correctly I put the switch together and tested it to see if it worked and it did.