Hello and welcome back to Rocio’s world. Today we’re going to talk about starting to build our automatas.

This week we started to build our automatas. So far I have glued all of the prices of my box together, have my cams printed and have my cams on my piston. When I was working on my project I burnt myself with the hot glue gun, but I’m fine. Something that I realized I had to change is that I had 2 cams glued together, instead of 3 and I realized that was too thin, so I glued another one.

Here are most of the pieces to my automata:

Until my next blog post. Bye!

Hello and welcome back to Rocio’s story. Today we’re going to talk about starting our first project in tech.

Our first project in tech is that we are making automatas . An automata is a machine that does something simple. Like make a stick spin, make a stick jump or something like that.

Here is a video we watched for inspiration:

My automata is going to be a caterpillar moving around. These are my cams :

I am super excited about this project, and I think its going to turn out very good. Until my next blog post . Bye!

Hello and welcome back to Rocio’s Story.

The first few days of tech we mostly used nearpod. On Nearpod, Mr Calvert had a slideshow to help us understand the room more. The first day we learned about all of the machines. Some of the machines that we learned about are the drill press , sauntering iron and the hot glue guns. The second day we learned about all of the safety rules  Here is a poster with all of them.

Some of the rules we learned about are that you need to be cautious with the sauntering irons, to report all scratches and burns and that you need to tie your hair back, and no dangling jewelry.

We also learned why you need to wear safety glasses. We saw a video of someone who got a drill stuck in his hair. This is the safety glasses case:

I’m excited to see the next things we are going to do in Tech. I will probably write another post next week so, until then. Bye!