GOOGLE DOODLE!
(Writing Prompt Pass Used)
Emerging Technology
I think Jibo would be an interesting experiment that could benefit us. It could make life easier, and when the day comes when it's mass produced at a cheaper price like Ford cars in the 1920s, I believe it's the future of homes. Instead if using a camera or other photographic device to record family events, Jibo could do it instead, so it won't be as annoying to buy a really good video camera to record memories. Plus Jibo can just make things easier, like just ordering food for you, to playing your favorite music instead of using a boom box. Jibo basically replaces functions of other devices, and is a great tool that thinks and talks.
Patience is a Virtue
When I was in my elementary school years, one of my favorite things to do was create my custom Lego mini-figures. My first times were unsuccessful, it was a model of a character from the video game series Halo. I searched up on Lego models of the same character, and found out that I could instead just purchase the figure I was trying to make, obviously purchasing something was more expensive, especially when it's custom made, or it's a private company that made it, and the Lego company doesn't approve of it in production in their own facilities. I decided to just continue working on it on my own. It took almost all of my free time of 1 week to perfect it, the figure looked very nice in the end, and I was happy of the results, but noticed only that I spent a whole week on it. I did have a few rage moments where I ended up getting mad and frustrated with working with something very small. That experience helped me believe in myself when it comes to art, that no matter the cost, and that I just needed patience to whatever I do or wait for.
Successful Failure
When I was younger, I
wanted many things, specifically toys, then airsoft guns. I always found the
thing I would be looking for online at a cheap price, I only cared about what's
in the picture, and the price. So my parents would be it for me, and when I got
it, I wasn't happy what I got instead. I instead received a piece of garbage
nothing like the object I'd see in the pictures. It would continue like this
until 4th grade, when I became a more intelligent shopper, of all those times
before 4th grade, I had a 5% chance I would receive what I expected. What
changed in 4th grade was when it happened again, but the final time. It's when
I'd get more first airsoft gun. I looked up some cheap airsoft guns on a
website not very reliable, and looked at the prices, I found one for $50 and
begged my parents to get it, and they got it for me. There are many times of
airsoft guns, I didn't even know what kind it was, its origin, or how to use
it, I just worked by sight. I received, and as usual, disappointed in what I got.
It was a piece of junk, my parents told me to be a smarter shopper, so that's
what I did from there, not only for shopping, but for life. This skill help me
learn to know what I'm getting, research it, ask others, and find other
information about anything, whether it's an object, device, school related
programs, or others. This experience would help get through school more, a
better strategist, play sports with better thought, and helped me understand
how others think and believe. These impacts help me to this day, I keep at
being 2 steps ahead, and to know what what's coming towards me.
IMPORTANCE OF DRAWINGS
Horten Ho 229
A German prototype fighter/bomber designed by Reimar and Walter Horten and built by Gothaer Waggonfabrik late in WW2. It's the first pure flying wing powered by jet engines. Designed in response to Hermann Goring's call for a light bomber capable of a 2,200 lb carry limit, and with the speed of 620 miles per hour. During the final stages of the war, the US initiated Operation Paperclip, it's an effort to capture the advanced Nazi weapons and research before the quickly advancing Soviets could get them. While the Ho 229 Version 3 was being built, the cockpit was only built and never finished building due to the Nazi downfall, and the US capturing it. Building it nowadays would be pointless, due to the fact that many stealth bombers already are built with increasing modern technology, it's only good for the era it was made in, it could have made a difference then, but not now. In conclusion, it's one of the many advance Nazi wonder weapons way ahead of its time, something that could have possibly changed the outcome of WW2 if the Nazis successfully built it early on, and is the first jet engine stealth bomber/fighter in the world, which paved in the way for many modern stealth bombers you see today.
WEEK 3 - WRITING PROMPTS
I have discovered a new organism, a creature, most like a prehistoric dinosaur. I discovered it in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The creature has a massive jaw, maybe larger than the Spinosaurus, known to be the largest prehistoric predator at the time. The dinosaur also has an endoskeleton, and has long legs, somewhat dog-shaped legs, possibly to run faster for its prey. It's believed that it is hairless, and has 2 arms at a long length; so that it may be used well, than for example, a Tyrannosaurus' arms. Is has the body posture of a Spinosaurus or Tyrannosaurus. With 2 eyes, and a body that seemed to have an armored skin, the skin had prickly spikes coming from it, I declare if as maybe the largest land predator of the prehistoric age. I name the dinosaur the “Megaminsaurus.” “Mega,” because the dinosaur is large and bigger than the Spinosaurus, “Min” because it's named after me like how many scientist do, and “saurus” because it is a prehistoric reptile dinosaur that is extinct. It has no known predators, but since it’s a land animal, it does not have any marine predators. The Megaminsaurus is the predator, and ate mostly other dinosaurs because it's a carnivore.
February 6th, 2015
Design challenge today! Except it was with the Arduino kits and the Sik Guide, the Sik Guides were just instruction blueprints for different Redboard and Breadboard projects. Matthew and I were able to make one making music, and one even with a screen saying "Hello World". Though it kept counting up for no reason. We completed around 5 projects today.
February 5th, 2015
We continued with the Arduino kits in our new seats. We received 2 worksheets, the 1st one we had to complete and turn in the same day. The 2nd worksheet needed to be turned in by today or tomorrow. Working with Matthew we completed both worksheets and turned them in, in the same day. Today had some confusing and tedious moments, when we weren't sure how to answer a question or make the LED light up. We worked with a few new pieces for Arduino, such as the Photo-resistors.
February 4th, 2015
Today got into groups of 2 of our choosing. We worked with the Arduino kits, some wires were the resistors, LEDs, the breadboard, and Arduino was next to the breadboard, which looked like a large red chip. Playing around with the circuits, we were able to allow the LED to light up when we hook up all the circuit properly, it was a interesting and sometimes annoying experience.
February 3rd, 2015
Today we filled out a small worksheet about our timeline from yesterday about the ages. Then after answering everything, as a class, we discussed it. With that done, we went through a presentation about the different ages, like the Bronze Age. Completing that, we did a review for our future quiz. Having permission for some free time, I wrote this journal entry for what we did today.
February 2nd, 2015
Today we worked on History of Technology, where we choose a region or country and all of its inventions, my group had the Middle East. I found about 3 major inventions, which write military marching bands, the pin-hole camera, and the first propelled rockets for military use, which also lend to inventions for space travel. One particular invention that surprised me was coffee. I had expected that coffee beans were growing only in tropical areas in Central and South America. So that's why I thought using coffee for a beverage was made in Latin America, so this really surprised me. After we made sticky notes for inventions of the Middle East, we place it on the timeline. Then we received a peer review sheet, and reviewed different groups on completion.
January 30th, 2015
At the beginning of class, we had our assignment on the table, but I was moved to another group from my original group because the other group only had 2 members and needed one more. After reading our instructions, we had to somehow either drop, land, or move the package of supplies to the X which represents a town that need supplies in a war zone, with 3 boxes acting as mountains in the way. For around 10 minutes, we thought, for our materials, we had balsa wood, string, rubber bands, hot glue, paper, paper clips, and Styrofoam.
We thought of a simple idea as wrap up the supplies in Styrofoam, hot glue, and rubber bands, then throw it to the X. We considered the option, being so simple, but it was place down because of a chance depending on the skill and aiming of the thrower. Then I thought through history, on how people would delivery supplies, either supply drops from planes, helicopter drops, or sort of a crash landing supply drop. Then I had a light bulb in my head and thought of a glider supply delivery. Using the paper, I wrapped up the supplies, which were 3 LEGO blocks, in paper. Once that was done with, I helped my group to create a frame for the glider, once we finished the frame, we place in the paper. We attached the frame with the paper using hot glue, then added paper clips to the front of the glider because we believed the glider needed more weight in the front.
Once we finished the glider, I hot glued the wrapped up package with the glider on the bottom in the middle of the glider because it needed some balance. We then fixed a few empty spots which the air could pass into, we tested it, over and over, to see where we needed the paper clips to be placed for the weight. After concluding that the paper clips in the front is best, we were set and done with Bryceson as our thrower.
When the moment of truth came, with the final test to see if it would make it to the next. Our thrower accidentally tilted the glider a little bit to the left, we ending the glider very close to the X, but not on it. With the other groups' projects tested, we came in possibly 3rd or 4th place for the group that was closest to the drop zone X.
We thought of a simple idea as wrap up the supplies in Styrofoam, hot glue, and rubber bands, then throw it to the X. We considered the option, being so simple, but it was place down because of a chance depending on the skill and aiming of the thrower. Then I thought through history, on how people would delivery supplies, either supply drops from planes, helicopter drops, or sort of a crash landing supply drop. Then I had a light bulb in my head and thought of a glider supply delivery. Using the paper, I wrapped up the supplies, which were 3 LEGO blocks, in paper. Once that was done with, I helped my group to create a frame for the glider, once we finished the frame, we place in the paper. We attached the frame with the paper using hot glue, then added paper clips to the front of the glider because we believed the glider needed more weight in the front.
Once we finished the glider, I hot glued the wrapped up package with the glider on the bottom in the middle of the glider because it needed some balance. We then fixed a few empty spots which the air could pass into, we tested it, over and over, to see where we needed the paper clips to be placed for the weight. After concluding that the paper clips in the front is best, we were set and done with Bryceson as our thrower.
When the moment of truth came, with the final test to see if it would make it to the next. Our thrower accidentally tilted the glider a little bit to the left, we ending the glider very close to the X, but not on it. With the other groups' projects tested, we came in possibly 3rd or 4th place for the group that was closest to the drop zone X.
January 29th, 2015
Today we primarily worked on our Unit 1 Projects of Invention & Innovation, due to technical difficulties, my partner, Mathew and I had to ask for permission to use a computer in the library. When we were able to start working in the library, our efficiency of work increased much, with collecting more data, placing the data together, and building up our information on the project. Though we didn't finish it, we were able to add to add a lot of information. We decided to finish it, and refine it over the weekend.
January 28th, 2015
Following the work we completed yesterday, we then used that information to put it all together. We then chose to use PowToon for our presentation on the Alienware 17x and computers. We used my account for PowToon, logged in, then were creating a new video presentation, but our issue came up. The computer we were using was now working correctly, and just kept at the loading screen to the PowToon presentation maker. We waited almost 20 minutes, it stopped at a point and did not move, it was working, but we had waited too long. Other groups seemed to have the same problem as well. So the best we could do is just add more information to our info Word Document, so we could just get started instantly and almost copy down the information we wrote on the document. That's the only work we could do, and then I gave him my PowToon account, so we could both work on it.
Week 1: Jan. 21st – Jan. 27th
From January 21st to the 23rd, we worked on our Bigfoot Projects, to collect height and foot size data from our classmates, and using that data, to make an equation. Bigfoot must be a humanoid, so we use that equation we devised to determine the height of Bigfoot. Since we saw large footprints of Bigfoot, we can just measure the size of the footprint and place that size number of Bigfoot’s foot, and then comes out the possible height of Bigfoot.
On the 26th, we worked on a device to catch tennis balls with limited items. We had only 5 skinny wooden sticks, string, and 1 yellow letter sized paper for our supplies. This was a very interesting experience to be placed in the shoes of an engineer to work with what he or she has, even though my group failed to collect more than 1 ball. Though the main issue was that the 2nd ball bounced off the 1st ball, causing it to bounce up high, and out of the ball catching device. Our group made a box to catch the tennis balls by folding the paper into a tray, then using the sticks; we placed it around the tray like a fence and used the string to secure the sticks around the tray.
Then on the 27th , I worked with my partner, Mathew because there weren't enough computers for all of us, so we had to work in groups. We chose 3 subjects, which were the evolution and innovations of filming, computers, and video game consoles. Though in the end, we chose computers out of the 3. We wrote down all of our information we needed on the 27th.
On the 26th, we worked on a device to catch tennis balls with limited items. We had only 5 skinny wooden sticks, string, and 1 yellow letter sized paper for our supplies. This was a very interesting experience to be placed in the shoes of an engineer to work with what he or she has, even though my group failed to collect more than 1 ball. Though the main issue was that the 2nd ball bounced off the 1st ball, causing it to bounce up high, and out of the ball catching device. Our group made a box to catch the tennis balls by folding the paper into a tray, then using the sticks; we placed it around the tray like a fence and used the string to secure the sticks around the tray.
Then on the 27th , I worked with my partner, Mathew because there weren't enough computers for all of us, so we had to work in groups. We chose 3 subjects, which were the evolution and innovations of filming, computers, and video game consoles. Though in the end, we chose computers out of the 3. We wrote down all of our information we needed on the 27th.
Bigfoot Data Analysis
Using the data received from the Google Document Survey, I filtered and finalized the information of the foot size and height in inches of data. Bigfoot must be a humanoid organism, so it must be similar to us in the way of it's foot size and height. Using the data from the survey, I was able to create an equation with the help of Microsoft Excel to an equation of determining the height of Bigfoot. Bigfoot's foot is most likely the size of 17.75 inches, using the equation: y=3.2812 (17.75) + 34.325, y, which represents the height in inches, Bigfoot is about 93 inches in height.