Tesla self driving

Posted on June 14, 2021 by jhernandez27

In class we talked about the Tesla self driving mode. Because of a previous accident the Tesla corporation made it so that every 10 minutes you have to touch the steering wheel in order to continue self driving. I think that although this was smart to make a timer to keep the drivers alert i think it does not makes sense to make the process of self driving more complicated when they should work on making the technology safer. I think they should have made sure that accidents like those don’t happen again instead of avoiding the problem by putting the responsibility on the people.

Mechanical switch

Posted on June 14, 2021 by jhernandez27

After creating my mechanical switch I learned a lot about gears and how they work and how to work with wood. After picking out our pieces of wood that we wanted we got to use oil bases paint markers. This gave us a very creative angle and allowed us to make the switch whatever theme we wanted. After that we assembles by glueing all of the pieces together with wood glue and made our switches.

Technology of Toy Cars

Posted on May 17, 2021 by jhernandez27

Toy cars have a lot of technology because they are meant to bed easy to play with. They have some sort of elastic band in the car that winds up when pushed backwards. What this does it it releases when the car stops being pushed backwards and it shoots forward at a high speed that makes it move fast.

Cams

Posted on May 17, 2021 by jhernandez27

In class we have just finished making our cams. Cam stands for Common Area Maintenance. We built our cam out of paper. The hardest part of making the cam was figuring what to put where. The instructions weren’t very clear on what to put where but in the end it all worked out. It was hard to make the lines precise too but it was really fun working with the slice cutter!

Technology of softball

Posted on April 23, 2021 by jhernandez27

My favorite sports is softball. Something cool about softball is that there is a lot of hidden technology in it. A softball bat is a class 3 lever. When you hit the ball the batter is putting in the effort. The fulcrum point of the bat is towards the top middle of the bat and is where the bat curves. The load would be the ball because that is the form of mass coming at you at a high speed. When you swing the bat all of these components make the ball go the opposite way fast.

Swift playgrounds

Posted on April 14, 2021 by jhernandez27

This week in school I made a code with swift playground. The code asked a bunch of questions about the person who was interacting with it. It asked questions like: What is your name?, What’s your favorite color? And whats your favorite animal?. This was really fun because I could make a way to respond to the people with things like “thats so cool!” And “thats a pretty color” this made it more personal. This weeks learning of how to use swift playgrounds was overall really fun because I could create codes and I could also code my way around a swift playgrounds game.

Blog post 4/7

Posted on April 8, 2021 by jhernandez27

When watching the video, Kira showed me how much fun and cool it is to create your own app. She was really special in the video because she is younger and her story is more relatable. She told us how when making an app all she had to do was some codes and she had a real app in the App Store. Then she told us how proud she was of this achievement. This really made me think about how cool it would be to have your own app that you created available for millions to play.

About Me

Posted on March 15, 2021 by jhernandez27

Something I like about Tynker is that there are a lot of different things you can do. This gives you a lot of creative authority and makes the app so much more fun. Something difficult about Tynker is that there are so many blocks and you have to find the right ones. Something I learned is how to make a character have a speech bubble in order to make it seem like its talking.

This week we I did a tynker project called “About Me” this project is a collage of things I like and I coded it. I used a basic actor that was a girl with a ponytail. A block I used repeatedly was a the “when actor touched” block. This was a really helpful to me because it allowed me to control the actors. I didn’t use anything from programming 201 in this project but it really helped me knitwear my way around what i was doing.

Computer Science is Changing Everything

Posted on March 15, 2021 by jhernandez27

In the video “Computer Science is Changing Everything”, One thing I found really interesting was Vidas part. She was talking about medicine and how Computer technology is Changing the medical field. This was something I never really thought corresponded with coding. This kept me thinking about how import Computer technology is for us.

Capstone blog post #4

Posted on June 18, 2020 by jhernandez27

We finished our blog posts. For mine to present it, I had to screen record the slideshow while talking to the screen recording.It took a lot of tries but in the end it got better. Once it was finished I posted on YouTube and presented it to my class.

Here is the link to my presentation: https://youtu.be/PnYEtoHGxl4

I can’t believe capstone and the year flew by so fast. I am so excited to go to a new school but sad to leave Heathcote. But I am looking forward to the drive through graduation