Science Design

Define and Inquire:

We started a new unit “Engineering Project” in our recent science class, which is a 5-session class that involves designing a product for a specific person. The following is my Padlet website to collect ideas, including my choice of objects, problems and solutions, and design inspiration.

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Develop and Plan: 

I initially thought of four different design ideas, but were eliminated as the size and material of the product could not be confirmed. My final product draft is a 15cm by 15cm cat “game player” that automatically moves the pattern.

Initial draft design drawing:

Final draft design drawing:

Materials:
Cardboard/Panel, wheels, motor, Cloth, battery/wire, Fixed axis, glue.

In this whole production part, I will use circuits and motors as energy to move my products, which is also what I want to learn in this unit.

In order to make a product better in time, I made a schedule for due days：

Date To Do
2/25 first class Making the outline of the product, test the sizes.
3/1 second class Working out the electrical energy part.
3/3 third class Working out the electrical energy part, start making the pattern inside
3/7 fourth class Start putting things together.
3/9 last class Finished up, make final adjustments.

 

Create and Improve :

Design day 1:

I started with the entire outline, including the cardboard box on the outside, and the patterned fabric to move inside. The box is 20cm by 20cm square, and the patterned fabric is about 35cm by 12cm.

 

Design day 2 and 3:

After I finished the outline, I started to make and adjust the parameters of the electricity in about two classes. Here is my test on the motor and electricity:

 

At here I think my progress is consistent with the schedule I do. But I quickly found that my motor system was starting to get very hot, and I have come to understand that this is because I made the energy move in a circle. The energy has nowhere to go, and the whole system starts to get hot.

Design day 4:

When putting them together on day four, I found that the patterned fabric was so heavy that I couldn’t move it with the power of my existing motor. Although I then tried using two batteries, it still didn’t work. After I understood the reason, I decided to change the energy transfer from electric to manual. So I came up with this：

Reflect and share:

Final product：

 

In the whole process of my production, the biggest trouble is that the circuit system I made for the two classes cannot move with the patterned fabric because the motor has insufficient power. This led to my decision to switch the energy transfer from electric to manual, which made my product look incomplete. But if I ever get a chance to improve my product in the future, I won’t make my mistake again, and I hope it can be a self-moving cat game.

Lamp Design

Inspiration Design Ideas, A padlet I made for me to record Ideas.

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User for the lamp:

An 8-year-old girl, that interested in science, dance,  poetry, and art.

Sketches:

I deiced to make a lamp based on her interest in science and art. This is an atom model, I made the portions and neutrons to light and electrons around it. Stitches and cardboard Model below:

What works well in my design are,  I have a plan for my lamp, mostly will about atoms and partcies ( based on Zoe’s intersted). But, what are not wroking so well are my sizes and materials of lamp. I am not sure about the size becuase i don’t know the size of the lightballs will be, also the materials that can make my atom model more real.

Eyeglasses Design

Padlet Link for ideas: https://padlet.com/chelseachiu/pbtuzeautbctjwvk

My observational drawings and coloring, this is also my first plant/drawings for my eyeglasses design to make. I get this idea from a famous artist, he created the “De Stijl” kind of drawings like this:

These are my Rough sketches of “orthographic drawings”, from the front, top, side views to show the details of each concept from different views.

me trying out different types of glasses idea

later on, I have moved on to making a model of the glasses Chelsea-card-5mm-pdf, this is from the Affinity app. I export them to make a cardboard model using the laser cutter ( first try).

( a new glasses idea I used during trying the Affinity, an idea from a movie that spy ware. Because I can’t make the lens, so I renew it. )

(laser cuts, cardboard model )

Final pieces of the eyeglasses design! I choose the one I get the idea from the movie. And these are the poster that I make to show my final design.look forward to a

Design Challenge

Design Problem is:

The MSHS Design Center in ISB is a wonderful space, and we are all appreciative of the ways it enhances our learning of Design, Engineering, and Visual Arts! However, the open plan of the space has created some challenges for teachers and students, and we are looking for creative solutions to the problems of:             -acoustic insulation: There is too much disruption caused when multiple classes are being held in the open areas.
-visual distraction: When multiple groups of students or teachers are active in the area it can be difficult to focus.

Design Challenge

The idea came from and making:

The above is the poster I made for this design challenge. My idea mainly comes from the blue partition in the school cafeteria, which is the “separation wall” for exams. From my model (cardboard model) the poster, I can see a retractable partition board, and it can divide a large classroom into two small studios from the middle. This also solves the problem of noisy work in large areas. Then, from the material of the isolation board I chose this time, one board is a whiteboard (for teachers and students to teach and record), and the other is glass, which not only blocks the sound but also has a sense of perspective.

 

Theme for “The Paper Menagerie”

In Ken Liu’s short story “The Paper Menagerie” Jack, the main character, understanding of his identity change and develops through the author’s use of character’s dialogue, to shows the changes of our main character Jack, that related to the theme.

In this story, by comparing the dialogue between the protagonist Jack and other characters when they were young and now, it can be found that Jack’s views and himself have been changing over time. At the beginning of the story, Jack was still a sopping kid. From his mother’s unilateral conversation, he likes his mother making origami paper for him, which makes him happy. His change came from a conversation between him and his good friend Mark. At that time, Jake showed him his mother’s paper tiger, but Mark said “That doesn’t look like a tiger at all. Your Mom makes you toys from trash?” and threw it away “Here’s your stupid cheap Chinese garbage.” It made Jack feel very uncomfortable. He also felt that because his mother gave him a chink face, he was bullied. On the same day he returned home and asked his parents “Do I have a chink face?”, And his mother’s attitude has changed a lot, and she doesn’t even speak Chinese or eat Chinese food.

Thesis on “On the Sidewalk Bleeding”

The main character Andy, in Evan Hunter’s short story entitled “On the Sidewalk Bleeding” initially believes that his identity, a Royal can make him powerful and Protected. But later he understands this identity are making he died, and no-one could help him also because of his identity. His changing understanding is revealed through the use of “He had known excruciating pain when the knife had torn across his body. He had heard the voice saying, ‘That’s for you Royal!'”, Freddie stood up, he looked at Andy again, and then mumbled, ‘I’m sorry.'” .

A History That Changed The Whole China

Many years later after the torments time in my life, it finally over…I will tell you how a 17 years old student wasting her best ten years of youth on. You will know what happed in my journal, that I always carries around. Here is my journal, please read it.

(Name: ZhangXiaohua, women, 17 years old was a student ready for CEE (college entrance examination) a kind of student study hard, when she heads CEE was cancelled, she still believes Mao. After she been expelled as a Red Guard, Zhang Xiaohua finally realized, but it was too late. Zhang Xiaohua Live in a small place Jinzhou, was a poor student.)

After all of the days of changing and changing in China, many things have stay the same. Now, China still continues to be run by a single party government until now on. But, now China was not in one person decides it all; instated, China have a hole Party group that all have agreements and disagreement to it.

A Revolution You Should Know

This video is a video you should know about Chinese Revolution. Long live Mao ZeDong, the greatest leader in China, who started The Great Cultural Revolution. All event happed throw this time, people see Mao as a saver.