Category: design

Crank contraptions

My biggest success was when I made the wood to stick on the foam. It was hard when there was no glue to use for the foam. I was very careful to not make the foam melt. It worked out pretty well, the problem for that was the hot glue was stuck on the wire so it might jam.

My biggest obstacle was when I had to bend the wires.  That was one of the big problems my classmate all faced. It was hard to bend using the pliers. You don’t know which direction to twist. When I did my second crank, Mr. Layman gave me the easy bend type of wire.

One thing I’d like to change is the glue to stick the backboard more close to the foam so it won’t shake. Also, I want to change the net from paper to the real kind of net. That looks more like a real hoop.

These are the links to my crank

https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1190155157837447170

https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1190157670871465986

Extreme cup competition

Our project was about keeping the heat energy inside the cup/insulate the thermal energy. We had to make a design/model/prototype to test the temperature of the water. Our goal is to not let the heat get out of the cup. We are proud of the materials we used, it helped pretty much, we put five layers to make it keep itself warm. We might want to change the place you drink it, its not easy to drink.  (A big lips person cant drink water out of this cup.) The hard thing about this was we had to make the whole thing one piece which means that we have to connect the lid and the bottom to one piece. My comment about my cup is we might want to cut down the part up their to make it more easy to drink.  One skill I learned is we should keep as more layers as we want. We kept four layers layer 1 foil layer two cotton layer 3 foil layer 4 felt. This is our project, I sure think it is fun.

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