Blog post #8

This is one of the final weeks of Technology. NOOOOOOOOO! This has been so fun, and Mr. Calvert is probably the best teacher I have ever had. However, I can still come at lunch, and that’s exactly what I have been doing recently. I have been making 6 square pieces of cardboard, exactly 7.5 inches. I cut out the middle of each square, color the rim of the square, and then that’s where I’m on now. I have finished doing the squares, now I have to put them together, and I’m still waiting on my 90º squares! Anyways, that keeps them secure together by the way. Lastly, there is a box in the middle, that is floating (not really) but its a smaller box, cut out to say Matthew. It also is going to have a light inside, so it glows. I am very excited to see the project when I finish it.

Blog post #7

The quarter is coming to an end sadly.  But, we are doing a new project! In class and during lunch.

The one that I am doing in class is that there is a wood burner, a big, fascinating machine that almost looks like a 3D printer. But it is in a huge box and it is so cool! It has a burner and it cuts or burns the wood by moving in a line. It takes a long time, however the results are worth it. also, we are working on a new app, called vectornator. It is probably the most efficient app, I have probably have ever seen, it could literally do everything! You can make shapes, lines and they can turn in such detailed work, and you can print them with the wood burner to make a new piece!

Blog Post #6

Last week, remember when I said drawing to scale took me so long, well, Mr. Calvert made us some tools to to trace with. That was so helpful, Thank you! So in the end, it all worked out well, and on Wednesday, I finally wasn’t behind on my work! Also, it was the first time that I drill pressed. It is way easier than I thought it was, and it was much safer. I drilled holes so that It can fit my LED light and a switch to turn it on and on. Now we’re almost there! Now we have to solder wires to the LED light, switch and the battery so that we make a circut. Now, we just have to assemble the pipes to the circut, and then we have a flashlight! I finished mine on Thursday, and I was so happy!

Blog Post #5

This week, we started a new project! On the first day, we learned about a soccer team and a coach who was stuck in a cave that was locked in, while in a flood! They survived for 10 days before people came to rescue them, it took them another few WEEKS to finally take them out. That’s so fascinating! Also, we learned about how to draw things to scale, and the metric system to help us with that. Also, I’m sorry you got mad when people were dancing and listening to music, I wasn’t part of the crowd. I was working on my drawing, which took forever!

Blog Post #3

Now, we have finished BOTH the jewelry piece and the 3 switches. If I am going to be honest with you, I am so happy about how my necklace and switches turned out, and my family liking them. Especially my sister with her necklace.

I was also pretty scared at the time when it was my turn to sauder. Mr Calvert said it was 842°F! Also how you use them is you put flux (white goo stuff that helps the wires stick (I never heard of flux before.)) on the parts that need to be saudered. And here is the crazy thing. When you Sadler, you basically melt metal wire, and so that it turns to goopy, liquid metal. So then you put the liquid metal on the parts that need to be sauldered and the liquid metal then works like metal glue. How crazy is that! Just thinking of that amazes me.

For my switches, they turned out really well. Honestly, I had my highs and I have my lows. My original 3 designs were to make one look so that you’re charging an iPhone, one where it works like a stick shift and one where it looked like you give a dog a treat. The stick shift failed and I didn’t even bother trying to make out of cutting cardboard. And you don’t cut them with scissors, you cut them with things called scroll saws! Anyways, I made 2 other last minute designs and one was incredibly ingenious, and one was alright.

Blog Post #2

This week, we are starting to work on projects. The projects that we started to work on were the jewelry pendant project and the switch project

For the jewelry pendant, we had to follow a few steps. Step 1, Interview the person who you are making this piece for. Step 2, complete a sheet full of brainstorming ideas and pick 1 idea for your piece. Step 3, create the frame. That is where we left off. Also, are piece has to have at max 5 wires and they have to be connected to either the frame or/and other wires. There should be no wires loose. I am making a J necklace for my sister because she lost an $1000  Tiffany’s and Co diamond J Necklace that she got on her birthday. Although I ain’t no Tiffany’s and Co, I hope this will cheer her up. I also put a diamond in the middle of the J in my piece because I found a diamond earring at the tennis courts in White Plains High School. How crazy is that?!

 

 

Tech Blog Post #1= My Tech Experience

In my opinion, I love this tech class. I love it so much because we did so many things that caught my interest, made me shocked and makes me excited. One thing that we talked and learned about was when he told us about how big some things were in space, (Like the Milky Way. It is 120,000 light years across!) how cool things are that are related to space, (Like Voyager 1 and 2. They go 38,000+ miles per hour!) and how small some things are. (Like atoms. In a football stadium, an atom compared at the center of the field is the size of a marble! Another thing that we learned was about the tools that we can use. An example of one of the tools are the drill presses. They can go up to 3000 rotations per minute! The last thing that we learned was lab safety. All of the subjects I enjoyed.

Covid-19=TERRIBLE

Matthew Pascutti

3/17/20

My Coronavirus Break

My Coronavirus break was very fun, but boring at the same time. It is boring because I am not seeing my friends in school and because we can’t leave the house at all times. The bright side is that I have more spare time to play with them online and 3 orchestra performances (One in Lincoln Center, All County and Symphonette) got canceled. 

Also, sadly the NFL, XFL, G League, NBA, Hockey, ect. Got canceled.

In conclusion, I thing this coronavirus break was ok.

Sloped Land With Grass

QUESTION 1

In today’s lesson, we ran our stream tables. But this time, we did it with a slope, and grass. When Ashley poured the water, the water soaked the grass and the sediment. The water flow was not going very fast. But at the end, we got 0 sediment 

QUESTION 2

I think the grass blocked the stream flow because the grass was like a wall in the stream channel’s way. When I watched, The water ran into the grass. It either soaked the sediment into the grass, or slowed the stream down.

QUESTION 3

I think the grass affected the amount of sediment because of how slow the water flow was. I saw that because even when I was at catch bucket, there was not a lot of water in there and coming out. Also, when the water was done, there was not any sediment.