This week we started talking about Self driving cars. This conversation is important at this time because now it is a possibility instead of a myth. After we talked and discussed ideas, we were assigned a project that will have three switches. 1: stop, 2:Left, and 3: Right. After we would finish, we would play a came with the switches. But, I wont go into detail about that now. My designs are complicated and when I try to upload my deracinated it wont work. But that is ok because i can explain one of them to you! One of my switches consists of a cardboard lever with tinfoil on it. If you didn’t know, tinfoil is conductive, which means heat, sound, and most important for this project, ELECTRICITY! So when the lever goes down and hits the other pice of tinfoil, the electricity passes though to make the lite shine. That is just one of my switches. I can’t wait to finish this project and play the fun game with them!
Month: September 2021
Technology Post #2 – Jewelry Pendant
This week we are working on jewelry pendants. Jewelry pendants are (or at least I think) a outside ring with some sort of design on the inside. But, the good part and the fun part is that we are making everything from scratch! So far, we have made the outer ring and this is what is looks like:
If you can see, we had to make a loop by coiling the extra wire. This is a close up of the loop:
The next step is to cut out the wire to make the design. The design I’m making looks like this for my mom:
This part has a really important step which is to make sure ALL of the wires TOUCH each other and the outer ring. Because solder is just metal glue, and if your working with normal glue, you want each pice to touch, so that is the same with solder. Next, I think we will be soldering the pieces together to create the bond. I can’t wait to see the final product!
Technology Post #1
The other day we did a safety breakout. The safety breakout is a game that the class is split in to 2 groups. Group 1 and group 2, I think I was in group 1 but, I’m not really sure. Each group would get a box with three locks. A word lock, a Number lock, and a directional lock. This is what the group lockbox looked like:
There was also another smaller box that was for BOTH teams. It was smaller and there was only one. This is what the box looked like
In this box was a clue to help you with one of the locks on the group box. Neither team 1 or team 2 got this open. Unfortunately the other team got all of the locks off of there group box faster than us. But, overall is was a great and fun experience!