This week in tech we have been focusing on orthographic drawing and learning about different types of wood that are used for different types of instruments. One thing I learned about the guitar is that the sides of the guitar are made from two strips of rosewood, walnut, mahogany, maple or sycamore. I also learned that it takes a very…
1st Blog Post
One thing I built before is a flashlight. I made it in 6th grade tech as one of my projects. We decided to make flashlights because we were trying to help kids in Taiwan who got stuck in a cave. I worked on my own for this project. I used PVC, glue, tape, saw, and wires to make the light.…
Solving Mysteries!
Hi guys, Today in class we were given different cardboard boxes and when we turned the handle something happened inside of the box. Different things happened inside each box that made something on top of the box move. Sometimes the thing on top spun, sometimes it bounced up and down, and did many other cool things. Mr. Calvert gave us…
Building flashlights!
Today in class we learned that we will be making flashlights! I am so excited to start building, but before we build we have to draw diagrams. We are drawing the diagrams in a 0.5in = 1in/1 box scale. We are drawing our diagram exactly how our flashlight will look. I can’t wait to start building our flashlights! I will…
The self-driving car game!
Today in class we played the self-driving car game. It was really fun, I did it in 1 minute and 30 seconds! It was much harder than I expected. I loved making the switches and learning about circuits, it is very interesting. We set up/attach the switches the switches to the breadboard all by ourselves. I had so much fun…
Switches!
Over the past week we have been working on switches. It is really fun! We use tinfoil as the conductor and we make a switch that lets two parts of tinfoil touch and light up an LED light. Soon we will be playing a game where there are three different colored lights (green, red, and yellow) that will light up…
Solder people!!!
This week we have been working on solder people! At first I thought it was really scary, but after a while i got used to it. Now I love soldering! It is so much fun! To solder, first you have to put your pieces right where you want them. Then you habve to heat up the pieces with the soldering…
Self-driving Cars!
Today in technology we learned about self-driving cars. We learned that self-driving cars are very useful for people with disabilities such as blindness. I think that self-driving cars are definitely in our future. We also learned that even though self-driving cars seem safe they do have some problems. One problem is that cars and robots can’t make decisions that normal…
Atoms!
Today in class we learned about atoms! We learned that atoms are made up of three parts, protons, neutrons, and electrons. Protons have positive energy, neutrons are neutral, and electrons carry negative energy. In class we learned that if a grapefruit was the size of the earth, the atoms would only be the size of a blueberry! I found that…
Human Rights Day in Technology!
On human rights day we learned many things. In technology we had a special guest, her name was Alexandra Mor. She taught us all about ivory and how people kill elephants just to get that ivory. She has come up with a solution, her solution is to use a seed called a Tagua seed. The Tagua seed has very similar…