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I Soldered “Iron Man”

Yesterday I completed my soldering iron man. We had to make a stick man of metal wire. Then we attached the arms with a soldering iron. The soldering iron can be over 842 Fahrenheit! The soldering iron has to heat up for 15 seconds. This  was very fun. There was a lot of molten metal. This was very cool, and I think my figure looked really good. I know it’s a short post, but I just wanted to make short blog post for my portfolio. Seeya!

Making Switches

Yesterday I completed my switches. We had to make three switches, and those would make a light. My switches were all, very simple. One looked like a sidewards V, like a clip >. The other one was one were you would put a small part and put it one part on a platform. When the two parts connected, the switch would get triggered, and then the light would turn on. The last one was one where you press it down. Imagine a diving board. When you jump on it, it goes down. imagine it going down, and then touching the water. That’s how it works. When the “diving board” (the cardboard with aluminum foil) touches the “water” (the aluminum foil platform) the light gets triggered. Those were my three switches. Seeya!

Iron Banner

Hey, yesterday I was playing Destiny 2, and I loved playing the new Iron Banner. This season’s Iron Banner armor looks amazing, and the new “Claws of the Wolf” pulse rifle is a solid long range weapon.

 

Iron Banner is an event, with Lord Saladin as vendor, where you play Iron Banner Control, a new Crucible game mode, and you play that to get Iron Banner tokens. With those tokens you go to Lord Saladin, and your gear will be looking good. One fun thing about Iron Banner Control is that power level matters. If your gear is low power level, then your guns will do absolutely NO damage. I do a bit of damage because I am a 500+ power level, but I feel bad when I even HIT a power level 80. This is a picture of Lord Saladin:

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This week, Xur is in nessus, selling Crimson. This hand cannon shoots burst rounds of 3, and is sufficient in PvP. Could be used to get hand cannon kills for the Ace of Spades quest, “Cayde’s Will”. Seeya!

My Favorite Video Games In September, 2018

Video Games are a very important part of my life. It is a way to connect with friends and live in a world packed with adventure. I have a few favorite games, and I would like to share them with you.

  1. Destiny 2: This is currently my favorite game on my PlayStation 4, because there is an amazing story, which you can play, and you can also do online multiplayer. You can get new armor, and also new weapons. There are these weapons called exotics, and they each have a unique “exotic perk”. This is a game I really enjoy playing, so check it out. Oh, and you can get it for free if you have PlayStation Plus.2. Overwatch: This game was a game I started playing a pretty long time ago, but it is still one of my favorite games. Overwatch won game of the year in 2016, and it is still moderately p
    opular. You choose one of 28 characters, though Blizzard keeps making new ones, and use them to defeat the enemy team and complete the objectives. The objectives could be “Escort
  2.  the Payload”, or “Take the Objective”, or many more. Every character, or hero, is as good, just it depends if you can play them right.

Image result for Overwatch3. Fortnite Battle Royale: I’ve been playing this game since October, and that was when barely anyone played the game. I was really bad at it, but I played. Nowadays I am pretty good, though I quit a few weeks ago. It got a bit boring, but it is still an amazing game. In this game, 100 players drop into the game, and then you battle until there is only one player left. It’s a pretty straight forwards game, and there is only one map, so it gets boring after a while.

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4. Fortnite Save the World: Earlier, I talked about this game’s newer, and more popular, counterpart, “Fortnite Battle Royale”, though This game is good too. In this you collect materials, and with those materials you craft weapons. This game is all about building a base and fending off the zombies. This game is not a game I am particularly good at, but it definitely deserves a spot on my list.

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5. Splatoon: This game is not a PlayStation game, like the rest of these, but it is for Wii U. I play this game nearly every day of the school week, and it is so fun to get new guns and clothing. You “splat” each other and can turn into a squid. This game is not very serious, but I think it’s a fun and cartoony game. You can also get Splatoon 2 on Nintendo Switch.

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These games are all really fun games and you should really play them. Seeya!

 

Top 10 Favorite Superheroes

Image result for iron man  1. Iron Man- I really like his suit and his humor.

Image result for the flash 2. The Flash- His powers are really cool and I watch the series.

Image result for captain america3. Captain America- I like the way he looks, and I am born in America

Image result for Deadpool4. Deadpool- He is very humorous.

Image result for spiderman5. Spiderman- Everyone should like him. Seriously, he always does back flips.

Image result for thor6. Thor- What’s not to like about an immortal thunder god?

Image result for batman7. Batman- He is just so awesome.

Image result for superman8. Superman- I know he fights Batman in Batman vs. Superman, but I mean, he has laser vision, super strength, and he can even fly.

Image result for doctor strange9. Doctor Strange- He learns how to get awesome weapons out of thin air. #amazing

Image result for groot10. Groot- What’s not to like about a cute super hero tree

The Octopus

Octopuses are amazing animals, because they can shape-shift, spray ink, and change color. This makes them amazing at disguise and hiding. The Coconut Octopus likes to hide in under and behind a lot. They has 3 hearts and and blue blood. Octopuses are invertebrates. They don’t have any bones. Having no bones makes it easy to go through tiny cracks. Octopus’s tentacles are attached directly to their heads. They can look like Sea Snakes, Mantis Shrimp, and even Soles. Octopuses are really cool.

 

 

Breakout EDU Review

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Last Friday we did this thing called Breakout EDU. In Breakout EDU, you have to find clues and with those clues, you have to open a case with Hershey Kisses in it.

I thought one of the hardest puzzles in Breakout EDU was finding the pictures of mice with invisible codes. The mice were behind things, under things, and on things. The fact that they were often low made it hard  to find them.

Our whole class was doing it together in the room across from our classroom. I have to admit myself, I think that no one worked together. I got a headache because of all the people shouting through the room. But it was still kind of fun to figure things out.

http://www.breakoutedu.com/

The Red Pyramid

Book review about “The Red Pyramid”

“The Red Pyramid” is a book by Rick Riordan, and its genre is fantasy. It is about two Egyptian kids called Carter and Sadie Kane. Carter travels the world with their dad and Sadie lives with their grandma and grandpa. Every year Carter comes to see his sister in London with his dad. One night the dad wanted to go to a museum to see some Egyptian artifact called the Rosetta Stone. It turns out that he wants to release some Egyptian gods, but it goes wrong and one Egyptian god called Set, the god of evil, traps their father. It then turns out they are magicians. Their uncle Amos then brings them to a mansion not visible to regular humans. They start training, but their mansion gets attacked. Sadie’s cat Muffin turns out to be the Egyptian cat goddess Bast. They get attacked by the god Set’s minions, and later in the book they stop him from destroying the gods. Rick Riordan is my favorite author and now there are 3 books, and “The Red Pyramid” is only the first in the series. The series is called the “Kane Chronicles” because Sadie and Carter’s last name is Kane. The second book is called “The Throne Of Fire” and the third is called “The Serpent’s Shadow”.

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My favorite character in “The Red Pyramid” is Carter because he’s really smart  and knows a lot about the Egyptian gods because of traveling to Egypt with his dad so much and hearing a lot of stories that his dad told him. I think that the book was sort-of funny and also creatively made. This book is one of my favorite books.  

 

 This the second book in the series, and it’s called “The Throne of Fire”

 

This is the third, and last book in the series, and it’s called “The Serpent’s Shadow”

Super Smash Bros

I just got got this really cool game on my Wii U called Super Smash Bros. If you like Nintendo games, then you’ll like this. Maybe you have heard about it already because it’s really popular.

It’s basically a game with a Nintendo character from every game. There’s Link from The Legends of Zelda, there’s some of the Mario character’s like Bowser, Donkey Kong, and Luigi. You can also use Sonic, and even some Pokemon! There’s Pikachu, Jigglypuff, Lucario, Greninja, and my favorite pokemon to use is Charizard. All characters can change color, but you can also use the original colors.

For the Wii U, every character jumps with X, or Y, and they do a long-range attack with B, and a short-range attack with A. You can get Super Smash Bros on the Nintendo Wii U, and the Nintendo 3ds.

In Super Smash Bros you can also make your own arenas to fight in. You can choose it to be large, medium, or small. You can add lava and springs that make you jump higher if you step on them.

In Super Smash Bros you can play a game mode called normal Smash, which is a 4 or less player game. You can also do Special Smash, where you can choose how fast you run, how high you jump, and you can even put bunny ears or flowers on the character’s heads. You can also make the characters look like shiny silver guys. The last game mode is my personal favorite. It’s called 8-Player Smash. In 8-Player Smash you can play with up to 8 players or less, counting CPU’s. If you want a really cool fight with everyone really close together, then use 8 players and use a small place to battle.

Super Smash Bros is one of my favorite games on my Wii U, and I love playing it with friends and my brother.