hello readers~ sadly this is the last “tech blog” we will be having this year and the end of my quarter 3 tech journey. this week we decorated our flashlights and assembled them. for my decoration, i decided to go with a theme of cherries~ a random theme but it turned out pretty cute! this […]
tech blog #8~ week of march 28th
hello readers~ this week our class has been diligently working on our flashlights. most of the class is still on bending the wires but i magically finished the soldering of the wires already. the next step for me, as i asked mr. calvert, is to cut my pipes and construct my flashlight! this week i […]
tech blog #7~ week of march 21st
hello readers~ this week was very similar to week #6~ i made a more visually pleasing switch design! i made a panda themed 2-way seesaw with 2 panda heads stacked onto each other in the middle. (made of pom-poms) i then embellished this design with some gold tiles. i shaped 2 brown pipe-cleaners into hearts […]
tech blog #6~ week of march 13th
hello readers~ this week in tech, i made a lot of progress. this week was mostly workshop and our class was introduced to a new project, the battery-switch project! i made 2 switches and currently working on my 3rd. my first switch consisted of a clothing clip, 2 popsicle sticks, and this switch was embellished […]
tech blog #5~ week of march 6th
hello readers~ i hope your day is going well, today i will be updating you on my tech journey~! we worked on our wire “charms” this week and i was lucky to finish mine and was first to solder. my design turned out into a moon with a cloud in front of it. this was […]
tech blog #4~ week of february 28th
hello readers~ this week, our class embarked on a new journey and we moved on from using the laser cutter. we are now learning about the soldering machine and working with wires! we started off with some background on metals and we reviewed the periodic table. we got the basic idea of what metals “really […]
tech blog #3~ week of february 14
hello readers~ this week in class, we worked on a new project with the laser cutter! we were to sketch out a design on paper with a pencil, then redraw it with a scale, and lastly, scan it with vectornator and trace it. I had great difficulty with tracing my design on vectornator but I […]
tech blog #2~ week of february 9
hello readers~ this week at tech, we learned mostly about laser cutters this week and the most interesting fact that I caught was that LASER is actually an acronym that abbreviates for: l = light a = amplification by the… s = stimulated e = emission of… r = radiation That was really new for […]
tech blog #1~ week of january 31
hello readers~ this is my first tech blog post of the year, and i will be telling you about my experience at our first week 🙂 Monday~ We had a brief introduction to our next quarter in tech, and the basic goals of the quarter! We also did a quick balance ‘project’ and stacked […]
Journal #10 For More Information and Bibliography…
Hello Readers~ Today we are going to have some guests from my Capstone Project Video. (Link Here to view my final product!~) I had so much fun researching Sleep and Dreams. (My Capstone Project Topic) I had some Extra Information that I couldn’t squish into my TedTalk since the time limit was 5 minutes so […]