Overall, I loved tech. I loved all the projects and Mr. Calvert was really nice. It was fun but some of the projects like the crank were hard and I didn’t like them as much. If I were to do tech again and I got to chose the projects, I would chose the last project which included the breadboard and I liked the project where you would rub the balloon against your hair and the tinfoil in the cup would move. Tech was really good and I enjoyed it while it lasted.
This is our second to last week. This week we did a circuit project and the objective was to light up the LED light. It was actually easier than I expected. I did it the day he showed us. Mine actually looked normal. If you didn’t use a resistor the LED would burn out, but we did use a resistor so it wouldn’t blow out. It’s really sad because tech is coming to an end. This project may have been the shortest one but I think it was the coolest. I think you could do something with it and you could make like something cool with the LED lights.
This week we were doing cranks. Basically a cam but with a bunch of added stuff inside. It was as hard as a cam, like it took the same amount of time but it was just annoying to cut more parts and wait for more glue to dry. Actually, I did save a little of time because I partly knew what I was doing cause we already did the cam. Overall, I did like doing it but it got stressful when I couldn’t like do it correctly sometimes. I wouldn’t do it again but it was a good experience.
This week we starting doing our cams. It took me a really long time to build it because I was watching the videos step by step. Im pretty sure it took me about 2 hours. It was really tough and I kept messing up. In the end you were supposed to glue it together so there werent two empty sides and I accidentally glued the wrong side. Oops! I just made way too many mistakes and at first I thought it didn’t work when I made it and I’d have to redo it but turns out it does work! And I’m really glad about that because I would’ve been really mad if I had to redo it.
This week, we learned about the 5 simple machines. For our project, we made a catapult. Basically, we made a goal and took a video of us launching it and then answered some questions. For example, it asked “What’s your effort arm?” and “What’s your load arm?”. My load was 5 and my effort was 6, which made my mechanical advantage 1.2!
ROBLOX, roblox is a game that includes a lot of technology and coding. ROBLOX is a game for all children and there are games inside of roblox. There’s like “Welcome to Bloxburg”, “Adopt Me”, and “Royale High”. These games all involve coding like in Royale High, when you make diamonds, you need to code that it can show the diamonds on the side or something. Or when you buy an egg and hatch it, Or when you place a wall in Bloxburg.
This weeks project is making a truss bridge or something that can hold up weight. It’s all about the triangles. Tomorrow we will start the actual project and build it. The materials we are using are carrots/gummy bears/fruit snacks and toothpicks. We use the toothpicks to stab the food and make a sculpture and take a video and post it to Flipgrid. I can’t wait to try it and I think that ill be able to hold at least 4 books on my truss. Tech has been really fun so far and I think its better than Computer Tech already. He already told us that we are starting a new project on a camera/crank thing. We have to use the safety cutter and this year we are just practicing using it.
This weeks project is comparing two beams. One is an
I-beam and the other is our own custom design. What you do is you follow the video that he gave us and make the I-beam and then make your own beam, which I just made a square beam. Then you tested it by putting two chairs together and putting the beam on the chairs and it should have the ends on the chairs and the middle touching nothing. You then get cans of soup and put them in a bag and put the bag on the beam. You keep adding cans till the beams can’t hold anymore. For me, my own custom beam worked a lot better then the first one. The I-beam bent in the middle and it started cracking with 5 cans, so I removed one and I bet 4 would’ve done well but I didn’t test it because it already cracked. My beam held 6 cans, it might’ve been able to add another too.
Some things I can’t wait to do for tech are all the projects. I like doing lots of projects and arts and crafts so I think those will be fun. I also wish that we could still make a speaker but this year we can’t sadly. But we are going to be doing some other fun projects like next week we are going to do something with carrots and gummy bears, so I think that will be pretty fun! I also like that we can actually go to the tech classroom because thats so much better so he can write on the board and have the desks that we need.
Basically, I did my subject about Social Studies kind of because it asked “Where are you from” and then I did a little question with an answer. It was really hard to do it all because it kept saying error and everything. But most of the project I looked at the template and it helped me a lot. I was really confused on how to do the question and answer because I’d never done it before. 