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In this blog post, I will be talking about the challenges and the easy parts of building a flashlight.

Challenges:

1. Making the plan – I thought that making the plan was pretty hard because this was where the whole thing started and you had to make a lot of decisions about angles and circuits.
2. Making the circuit – Making the circuit involved soldering, and I tend to get scared of heat being too close and soldering can melt hair. I made sure to stay well away from the soldering iron because if my hair got melted, I would never see the end of it.

Easy Parts

1. Drilling holes – Drilling holes was very easy because there was not as much danger as soldering and I didn’t need as much precision as soldering.
2.  Decorating – I love decorating (as you could see in my last blog post) and I might have decorated too much, but I loved that it made flashlight building more fun than if we had to keep them all plain.

Thank you and see you in my next blog post! 😜

Today, we drilled holes into our flashlights. We drilled these holes with a drill press:

We also started decorating our flashlights with gems, Pom poms, and Sharpies. My flashlight’s plan was already drafted and I think that this helps me a lot because without the blueprint, I would be very disorganized and I do not think that when building a flashlight, this is good. I also think that I always had something to come back to if I couldn’t remember what I intended to do.

We are in hte middle of making flashlights! Mr.Calvert told us we had to make a blueprint for making the flashlights. The materials that are most likely going to be used are PVC pipes, wires, a switch, and an LED light. The flashlights are supposed to be waterproof. They are supposed to look like this:

I am very excited to do this and with a little bit of help, I will make a great flashlight! 😄