Breadboard Activity

In tech today, we used bread boards, led lights, batteries, and jumper cables to create a working light switch. It was really fun. My favorite part was turning the battery on and off. I also liked putting the things in each hole of the bread board. Here is a photo of my breadboard.

 

My Crank Review

Recently, I made a crank  and it was really fun. I liked cutting and glueing all of the pieces. My favorite part was when I was doing the final touches.

 

Also in class we learned about atoms.

Proton: Positive

Neutron: Neutral

Electron: Negative.

Animatronic Video

In tech we watched an animatronic video, and it was very interesting. Here are some things we learned.

Animatronics dated back very far, because most don’t need electricity! Automaton makers had to make stacks of miniature cams. The most advanced animatronic left  was the writing boy. It was made in Switzerland. It was so advanced that all of the machinery was inside of the boys body. He works on his own. The writing boy actually writes!! The writer could basically be programmed without technology by rearranging the letters, so he could make any words!

Animatronics can also make music and move their eyes! It was very hard to make animatronics. The machines began to change. Animals and many more advanced things could be turned into animatronics. The Chinese only wanted automatons.

That’s everything. Bye!

Cool Simple Machines || Inclined Planes

Ever heard of simple machines? Well I’m gonna tell you about all of them! Except levers, I already made a levers blog post, so I’ll do….

Inclined Planes!

Inclined planes are very interesting, I’ll give you some examples: Ramps, Stairs, slides, and more. Inclined planes we’re used in Egyptian times to move bricks to make pyramids, and other buildings.

I hope you have learned more about inclined planes! Bye!!!!

All About Levers

Have you ever heard about levers? Well you probably have seen them in minecraft, or a cool movie, but there is a lot more to levers you see..

A lap top is a lever, scissors are, seesaws are, wheelbarrows are, crowbars are, even your arm is a lever!

Let me tell you about the 3 classes of levers.

Class 1 Lever: A class 1 lever is a see saw, a crow bar, scissors, and hears why. The three points in a lever are the fulcrum, the load, and the effort. (FLE).         In a seesaw, the thingy in the middle is the fulcrum. However, the load and the effort depend on weight, or who is higher up. To say, if I were 100 pounds, and my friend was 75 pounds, I would be doing most of the effort because I am heavier.

 

Class 2 Lever: A class 2 lever is a wheel barrow, and a nutcracker, and more. In this type of lever, the fulcrum is the wheel of the wheelbarrow (at the end) and the load is the bucket of contents, and the effort is where your arms are when you push it.

 

Class 3 Lever: A class 3 lever is tweezers, your arm, glasses, lap top, and more. For this lever I am going to be using tweezers as an example. In tweezers the fulcrum is the end of the tweezers, the effort is in the middle and the load is at the end.

 

I hope you liked my post about levers-!

Final Project

My last and hardest project was the final project. What I tried to do was make it look like a teacher giving a pop quiz. The subject was math, and I liked it the most because math is my favorite subject. I looked at some of my friends projects, and some of them were also math related ones. For example, my friend, did the same. She had barbie ask the player math problems.

Learn to Code 1

Over the past few weeks we have been doing Learn to Code 1. It is on playgrounds. One of the activities that I thought was the most interesting was the nesting patterns page. I liked it because it was challenging, I had to fix a few bugs along the way. Here is the picture.