It’s the next class and I decided to switch it up a bit and turn it into a normal looking flashlight since it looked easier to draw. I completed early do I got to do my wires and I proceeded during the next class. I sautered quickly and I kept waiting forever. Next I cut the pipe for my flashlight and it was really easy. Last I had to drill a hole for my flashlight which was very alarming but easy at the same time. Finally I assembled the flashlight together and decorated it with pompoms, beads and markers. I took my flashlight home as soon as Mr. Calvert took a picture.

We are starting out flashlights today! We learned about how 10 soccer team kids and their coach got stuck in a network of tunnels and how a international team got them out. Now we are charged with the task of making a flashlight that can fit in a small box. I already have my design, one that doesn’t require cutting a pipe at all. I got to my design after completing one very boring but complex worksheet. I finished that the next class and got started with my design. I looked at the pieces and decided which ones I wanted. It was really easy and for the rest of the class I sort of just walked around the classroom.

We finally played the switch game it took a long time to play. I for one didn’t really like it. It was very boring and one of my switches broke. Another person only make one and kept playing the game wrong… The red cards were obstacles while the black represented nothing. We took videos and was very annoying. I for one was bored when I was recording. When you are the driver, it gets intense because you have to react quick. But as a card person, it’s pretty easy. All you have to do is wait and move.

We decided to take a break on the pendants and go to make switches instead. The switches were easy with a couple of hot glue burns…. that didn’t hurt much. I didn’t use the hot glue guns often because they took a while to for the glue to settle and it’s very hard to position with a high chance of burns. Also there was a very long time and masking tape was a lot easier. I got two switches done in one class (Same design and very easy to make) with a lot of access cardboard. But I got one burn that day too. In the end I decided to make one big switch with my remaining cardboard but it ended up only being twice as large. Another problem, still some cardboard left that sits in my bin to this day.

The last week was all about the pendants and I’m almost done. I really want to finish it but today we are doing something else. I spent a lot of time on the pendant, making sure it was perfect. But even eventually the glue for the metal ruined it and I had to try several times. Later he took the picture and i’m Ok with the pendant, but the process of sautering, burning the gold metal, and the files is very exhausting and I didn’t like it. At least we get to keep it!

So we are starting our first project which involves soldering, one of the most dangerous equipment in the room. We are making pendants with the maximum being 5 wires. The boys at my table wanted to try logos but I did a evil eye and a yin yang. We had to fill up the whole page, so I did a ton of designs that I didn’t really like. We had to number them and I chose the evil eye first. We didn’t go any further than that cause we ran out of time.