I have not actually finished my cam mechanism yet, but I can still talk about how it was for me so far. I am making cam A. I am finding this project a little bit hard but mostly easy. The hard part about it is that it takes a while, and keeping track of all the pieces. But overall, building is not too hard. It can be a little bit boring, but not hard. All it really is, is cutting and glueing. Sometimes the gluing can be a bit hard though, if you are trying to glue a hard-to-reach place on the cam. I think I am doing this right so far, and I think it will work when I am finished.

We have just started talking about atoms in technology. Atoms are tiny particles that are everywhere. Everything and everyone is is made out of atoms. Atoms were discovered by Albert Einstein. He got the idea that everyone was made out of the same substance, atoms in 1905, with the theory of relativity. At first, no one believed him but he proved the existence of atoms by doing an experiment.

I made a catapult in technology. It was really fun, and did not take long. We had to make a Flipgrid of us testing out our catapult, mine worked really well. I put a dice inside of it, and it shot it out across the room. Then, we measured and got the mechanical advantage. My effort arm is 63.5 mm. My load arm is also 63.5 mm. We had to divide those together to get the mechanical advantage, which was one.

I made up a game with the catapult I made for technology. Basically there are 4 cups on the ground in different places, with post its on them that say different points. The cups that are the farthest away are worth more while the ones that are closer are worth less. You need to try and shoot something in the catapult, into those cups. It is really hard! I played for 30 minutes and still had no points!

You probably have seen lots of movies, but you might have never thought about how they are made. Well I can tell you. With every movie there is a director, producer and hundreds of other members. So, the producer is the person who chooses what to make the movie about, and funds the movie. They are in charge of everything that happens in the making of the movie. The director is in charge of anything the audience is going to see. They choose what the audience will see on screen. First, the producer has to hire everyone who will help in the production. Those include, actors, writers, animators (if the movie is animated) and more! Then the writers have to write the script. Music writers also have to write the music (if there is any). They will later bring the actors in and film them. If the movie is animated, the actors just need to have their voice recording, but if it is not animated they have to act too.  The animators, (if it is animated) need to then animate the characters. About once a month, lots of directors from other productions are brought in and shown the current product of the movie. They will give feedback, and the movie will be worked in and showed to them again soon after. Finally, when this process is over and the directors say it is perfect, it is released.

For this project, we had to build a beam and then test it. For one beam, we had to follow instructions to do it, and for the next one we had to build and design it by ourselves.  The first one came out really good. It wasn’t hard to make, but it still took a long time. And for the second one, I used a more complex design with lots of triangles. When I tested it, the one with the instructions did really well. It was able to hold so much fruit, including 4 lemons, 2 apples, a pineapple, an avocado, and a bag of tomatoes before it fell. But for the second one, it didn’t do as well. It was able to hold 4 lemons, an avocado, an apple. It fell when I added the tomatoes.

The last puzzle I successfully completed was across the board. It is the 4th puzzle in the functions section. In it, I had to make a new function. I named mine, getGem. In that function, I made it go forward, collect gem, and then that repeated one more time. I used it 3 times throughout the level. Nothing was exceptionally hard about this level. I just had to use my new function, with turning and moving forward in between. Below is a picture of the level I did.

Basically, what I did with this project was create a very short story. The story was that the character I created was going into a haunted house. You got to pick what you think would happen, and when it does happen. You pick if you were right or wrong. I added sound for each of the backgrounds I had, and took time to pick the perfect backgrounds, make my character, and think of the story. I was actually hoping to make my character do some kind of dance from tynker’s animations. But when I tried, I started up my project again to test it and nothing worked. I’m not sure why, but it didn’t work after I put in the animation so I had to take it out. Sorry if the picture below has bad quality, I took a screenshot and that’s how it came out. I named it “My Quiz” on Tynker.

I just wrote my code in the page 2 of answers in swift playground. I made it ask what the date is, for a color, and I made it say that you won a prize. I think it was not hard, but it was also not interesting and fun. I wasn’t super interested in it, but I don’t think it’s hard. It’s actually pretty easy. It wasn’t super challenging, but sometimes it says you had an error and I couldn’t figure out why.

The music video I picked is by “✨flowerangel✨” I picked this video because I liked how it all came together. The girls sitting down were singing, and there was a girl on the drums. The music matched up with the video because I could hear drums in the background and singing. I also liked how all the girls in the video had little lines coming out of their heads to symbolize sound. There was a lot of detail put into this; the drummer’s line was yellow because it is a different kind of music than the singer’s blue lines. The background of a stage with bright lighting went perfectly with the animation also.