Hovercrafts

In the past week we have been making hovercrafts. I have been doing it with Austin, Logan, and Kyle. We changed the original design because it didn't look like it worked. Our new design works but its a bit heavy on one side. Even though its not balanced it still works, but nothing is really connected.  Then today i even made my own little one. Its not that good but it makes a good fan. I also figured out that the fan blades hurt if you shove your finger in it.  (but it was still funny)

Here is our actual one

Here is my little ghetto one

Kites

This last week we have been doing kites. I was gone for a day so I didn't have much time to find a design. After a while of searching I finally found one. At first it looked like it was going to be complicated, but it turned out it was a really simple design. It was called a sled kite. The hardest parts was trying to get the cuts lined up so it matched. That was pretty much it for last week and I shall have more stuff to talk about next week.

Flight

In the last week we started to make paper airplanes. I made a couple of good planes that flew really well. The only bad part was that none of them would work during the competition. One of them had amazing hang time, but it didn't want to work when I wanted it to do. I tried making a plane that would work amazing but it was to hard to make. Actually most of the good planes I found it was really hard to do all the folds on them. So I guess thats why they are supposed to be really good. At the actually competition my planes didn't do that good. When the planes decided to work the competition was already over. Well thats it for this week so I'll see you next week.

Child Labor For Free!!!

So this last week we have been trying to raise money for project make. I couldnt find anything to do so i searched the back room to find something. I found a lot of stuff from computer parts to air freshener. I even found some old vcr tapes. The funniest thing I found was vrc tapes that taught you how to read. I dont know why but I thought that was really funny. Other than that there wasn't much in there. I did find a bunch of cassettes, a lot of them were from the 80s and 90s. I never heard of any of the bands before and I would've listened to one of them but I couldn't find a tape player. That was pretty much for this week. I'm still looking for something to make so I can make the class some money.

My robot adventures

So last week Kyle and I got to program a little robot. It was fun for a while but after a day or two our robot became stupid. At first it would take a while to get it to work, but after a while it stopped working all together. It went like this for almost the whole period. Then Ms. Smith took it for a couple of minutes and when she brought it back it worked again. After I got it back it was pretty fun. But I still think that the robot was sexist. Well that's all for now see you next week.

Programming

The last couple of weeks we have been programming a bunch of different things. So far I've done a lot of things. I have made a keyboard, a display screen, and I even got it to play music. The ones that i liked the best had to be the liquid crystal group. In that one you use a little display screen. All of them are the same in the group but the code is just different. I was even able to make my own character on it. It was a little man that would move his arms up and down. That was all for this week so I'll see you next week.

Solder

Last week we started to solder random things together. It was pretty easy but I’m pretty sure we are going to get cancer from the fumes. I also figured out that it kind of hurts when the solder gets on you. The only thing we really made so far was just a simple little badge. It was pretty easy but now I’m working on a different project. I don’t know what it’s called but so far its easy, but it might get hard later when we get farther into the project. What I really want to do is to program something. That was the main reason I’m in this class. So I’m hoping we start doing that soon.