Tag: Soldering

Tech #11 – Finishing my Flashlight

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In tech, I finally started working on soldering my battery, wires, and LED light together. First, I soldered my shortest wire to my battery. Before you solder, you have to make a hook on the end of the wire with a tool. Then, you attach the hook to the battery. I cut a piece of soldering wire and heated up my soldering iron by placing it on the object I was going to solder for five seconds. Then, I took my soldering wire and I put the soldering iron on top of it, so the soldering wire would melt and harden. After that, I soldered my other wire to my switch. This was the hardest part for me to solder because there was barely any space to put my soldering iron in. Eventually, I finished and moved on to soldering my wire to my LED light.

On my LED light, there is a long leg and a short leg. The longer leg was the positive side and the shorter leg was the negative side. I had to bend the longer leg and make it as far apart as possible from the other leg because the flashlight won’t work if both wires are touching. I soldered my positive wire to the positive leg on the LED light. Finally, I had to solder all of the pieces together to connect them. After I completed that, I drilled a hole in the middle of my flashlight for my switch. Then, I put everything I soldered into the right places of my flashlight. I needed to put a cover on my switch to protect it from water. I put all my pieces together and tried it out, and luckily, it worked. This project was really fun and I’m so excited to do something new.

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Tech #4 – Pendant Designing

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In tech, we started working on our actual designs fro our pendants. Before we started making the pendants, we had to brainstorm designs on paper. The design that we chose is supposed to act as a guide. You make the design with metal wires by using a special type of tape and you stick it on top of your design. Next, you peel off the other side of the tape and stick the pendant onto it. Then, start making the design for you pendant.

For the pendant design, you get a metal wire and start shaping the wire so it eventually looks like the design you made. When you have the pieces of your design, you’re supposed to stick it on the tape where the inside of the pendant is. When the pendant is complete, you solder all the pieces together. I’m not up to that part yet, but I’m still on the designing part. This is really fun and I’m so excited to solder all of the pieces together.

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Tech #3 – Soldering

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For the past few days, we’ve been working on something called soldering. Soldering is a process when two or more items are attached by melting the items together. In this case, we’re using metal wires. In class, we are working on making pendants.

The first step was to brainstorm a couple of ideas for our pendant design. It was a little hard because we were only allowed to use five metal wires for our design. Then, we had to pick one design to use for our pendants. After a lot of thinking, I finally settled on one design. After we decided on which design we were going to do on the pendant, we had to make the outside of the pendant, but not the actual design yet.

We made the outside of the pendant by starting in the middle of the wire and wrapping the wire around the wooden stick, which would turn the wire into a circle. The reason why we started wrapping the wire in the middle is because we needed the two sides of the wire to tighten the circle. We had to twist the two wires three times, and when the outside of the pendant was tight enough, the outside of the pendant was complete. This was really fun and I’m so excited to make the actual design.

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