This week I made my first prototype of a catapult. Overall, I think it was a success. The design was like a trebuchet. The little box on the right side of the arm is called a counterweight. It’s filled with weights so it’s much heavier than the left side. Because it’s so much heavier, the Read More…
Passion Project Week 3 (Plan)
Today I’m starting my plan for my passion project: building a model catapult. I’ll reach out to Mr. Calvert, our technology teacher so I can use the technology room. The tech room has the tools I need to make a catapult. In addition to the technology room, I’m going to use the internet to research Read More…
Passion/Compassion Project Week 2
For my passion/compassion project, I will make a model catapult. I wanted to make this because well… it’s pretty cool, and I get an excuse to fling pebbles at the annoying people in my class. Don’t worry, I’m only 50% joking. I’ll use the tech room, because it should have all the things I need, Read More…
Passion/Compassion Blog Week 1
Today we picked our Passion/Compassion project ideas. Mine was building a model catapult. My goals are to have an understanding of how catapults work, and be able to build one.
Tech Blog Post #8
This is my last technology blog post. Sadly, we only have tech for one quarter of the year, and that quarter is over in a week. In this post, I’ll look back on all the projects we did this quarter. The first project was our introduction to tech. Jewelry. First, we used pliers to create Read More…
Tech Blog Post #7: Vectornator
In technology class, we recently learned how to use Vectornator, which is an app for drawing on an iPad. There are a lot of different tools we used. First we learned how to use the shapes tool. The shapes tool lets you drag out different shapes at different sizes. Since it was Halloween, we made Read More…
Tech Blog Post #6 CNC Machines
In tech class, we learned about CNC machines. They are largely responsible for all of the products we have. CNC machines are automatic machines that use computers to do tasks repeatedly. They are the reason we are able to mass produce. Without CNC machines, everything you had would have to be hand-crafted. That would mean Read More…
Tech blog post #5: Making a flashlight
This week I made my flashlight. There are many steps to making a flashlight, and in this blog post I’ll go over all of them. Once the blueprint was finished, you had to cut your wires. Since we had already figured out how long the wires needed to be, the next step was to cut Read More…
Tech blog Post #4: Blueprints
This week in Tech we learned about how to make blueprints and draw to scale for our new project, waterproof flashlights.. A blueprint is basically your design for a project. It’s a lot more than just a picture of your design though. A blueprint Includes all the materials you need for your design, and also Read More…
Tech Blog Post #3 – Circuits and Breadboards
This week we hooked up our circuits to a breadboard. Breadboards are a way of uniting different circuits and making them do a task. You plug the edges of your circuits into the breadboard, and metal rods under where you plug in the circuits which allow you to make the electricity flow into a big Read More…