Final blog post

Over all this quarter I’ve really enjoyed all the projects. My favorite part of this quarter was to of course get to know mr. Calvert but also to learn about space and so much more. My favorite project has to be the Catapults because it was the funnest to make and i still play with it today, another reason was it was my favorite because we got to make games out of them and I really enjoyed my game. Some things you can do better for next year is make the project a little less complicated, because at least for me the cams and cranks were so complicated and they didn’t turn out so good. Overall I loved tech and i learned so much.

Electric scope

We did an electric scope project last week and it was one of my favorites. The objects you would need is, tin foil, a glass cup, a paper clip, tape, and cardboard and lastly a balloon. The goal of the project was to rob the ballon on your hair and see if the paper clip would move or make a sound. I liked this project because it was fun to do and it wasn’t hard but it will also really cool fun to see it move and hear the sounds. And then you had to explain why you think this happened, and I said, since both electrons are negtive they wanted to get alway from each other. Overall I really enjoyed this project.

Bread board

We did Bread boards as our project for this week. I got lucky and was able to do it in class with my teacher. The things you would need were, a battery, two wires, a wire cutter, a bread board. So what you has to do was cut two wires to a 4 inch length and then put it into the bread board and then you would connect it to the battery and then your light would turn on. This project was kinda of easy it didn’t take a while and it was super fun too. Overall I loved this project.

Cranks

The cranks were a challenge for me, it had a lot of problems like a lot of problems. One of the problems was that when it was time to build the crank all my pieces were smooched together and when i finally got tin together it was not strong it it was just a mess. My second problem was that I used crank b and when I was building that it completely broke down like everything just ripped into pieces. As you can see it was really big struggle.

Cams

We did cams as our project this week! It was really hard to do but at the end I wasn’t even able to make it. The middle of my cam wasn’t working like the axles part wasn’t staying and I think the problem was that when I was folding the other parts of the cam it was’t straight and I think that effected them cam for the axcel to stay on the cam. I mean I tried my hardest and a lots of people didn’t work either so I think It’s okay.

Catapults

For one of our projects we did catapults, this was decently my favorite one because it’s wasn’t hard to make and I still play with it now. So some things we had to do is we had use thick tooth pick and rubber bands and a bottle camp and finally an bead or something to shoot up. Also you can make a game and i made a bowling game. I really enjoyed this project.

Thus project

For this project we used tooth picks and I used carrots to make a little tower with some thus in the middle. I used a square for my shape and I put thus in the middle aka tooth picks. This project was not my favorite because I didn’t get as many as I hoped because only get 3 books when in class they got 6 books which was kinda disappointing to me. I think my problem was that I didn’t put the toothpicks hard enough into the carrots.

How glue helps with technology.

How glue helps with technology is because it is easy to put stuff together and wont fall out like tape. One example is if you wanna make a school project taking tape from the tape roller can be hard because it can ruin the sticky ness because it would be hard to take the tape off the ruler. But if you have glue you can just get the glue and put it on, it might take longer to try but still its worth it. One fun fact is that if you care about the earth glue is chemicals so it cant go in the earth but tape is paper so it can go into the earth. Another reason is glue can be less noticeable and be still be stable but with tape maybe you can get clear tape but you cant trust it as much. This is why glue is apart of technology.

I beams project

This weeks project for tech was to create a I beam and see how much it can hold. Today I will be talking about something’s i like, somethings I had trouble with, and how it turned. What I liked about this project was the it was cool to see how just a piece of cardboard can turn into something so strong. One thing that was hard was that it really hard to make it look as perfect as the one we watched on the video. At the end of the project my I beam can hold 5 cans of food which isn’t that bad.

Technology

Today my blog post will be about the new car brand Tesla. If you don’t know Tesla is a car brand that is fully electric car that doesn’t involve gas. One way a Tesla goes with technology is that it helps with transportation, so instead of walking you can use a Tesla. Another example is that Tesla saves climate change because you don’t need to use extra gas for the car, actually you don’t need gas at all. That why Tesla goes with technology.