Andy

"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious" - Albert Einstein

Science & Design Toy: Air Cannon-Blog 4

There were four things that had to be included in my air cannon product: a resilient material, a fabric that did not leak air, a handle, and a barrel. Once I knew what the product needed, I first conceptualized the dimensions of my product, determined the exact size of the interior items needed, and identified which items I should use.

In my opinion, my product was a success and a failure. It was made exactly as I conceived it, without any deviations, and almost exactly as I designed it. There is no doubt that as a creation it is a success, but as a design, it is a failure. Although I created it perfectly according to the design, it was not flexible enough to effectively achieve no air leakage due to the choice of materials and the location of the design, with the consequence that it had very low power.

I say it conforms to the design because both the handle, the spring rope, and the fabric aspect were assembled strictly according to my initial measurements. And it does demonstrate the process of converting elasticity into kinetic energy, even though the force it can convert is very small.

I think the wooden handle I made is the one I’m most proud of. Every step of creating it was done perfectly – the design, the measurements, the assembly and the actual result – and it fits perfectly as an air cannon handle. The most challenging part of the process was putting each of the pieces together: wood, plastic, string, and fabric. I think it was a success!

Science & Design Toy: Air Cannon-Blog 2

In the assembly of the air cannon, I realized that I needed to use different assembly techniques for different materials, for example, I could not use the fabric assembly method for the wooden handle, nor could I use the wooden handle assembly method for the spring part. After my personal experimentation and advice from my teacher, I finally determined how each part of the assembly needed to be done.

First, the handle, my handle is assembled with multiple pieces of wood, consisting of two 8 cm and two 6 cm sticks, with screws to form a hollow rectangle used as a place for the hand to hold. A 15 cm long and 3 cm wide cylinder has the same way to link the handle. Finally, the two middle hollow 3 cm pie-shaped wood mounted to the long cylinder is used to connect the fabric. I will cut out a 3 cm size hole in the very center of the fabric. On each side of a wooden cake and then the entire handle through the three items to play a fixed effect. The fabric is tied to the barrel body with a string. Finally, a hook is installed at the end of the handle to connect the spring to make the fabric flexible. A woodcutter and an electric screwdriver were used throughout the process.

Science & Design Toy: Air Cannon-Blog 3

No matter whether it is the handle, the barrel, and the spring rope connection are exactly as I originally envisioned. However, as an air cannon, it can do too little kinetic energy conversion. Even if you pull the traction device to the head, you can only hit a weak air potential energy.

My companion thought it had too little elasticity and only one spring rope to release much kinetic energy. My other companions also thought that the material I chose, the fiber cloth, contained too little elasticity and did not have any stretch, making the traction too stiff. According to my product prototype, I also found several holes in the fiber cloth, which were caused by improper handling during manufacturing. I think based on the above points, the material selection aspect is the main reason for the failure. I should have replaced the fiber arrangement with a fabric/material that is more stretchy, flexible, and not easily damaged by tension.

Science & Design Toy: Air Cannon-Blog 1

Purpose: This toy is called air cannon, and it is for children to play with. It sounds very dangerous but it can’t make any harm to the human body, because the things “cannon” shots are only air. So this toy is a cool toy for children that are able to “shoot” air.

Environmental Impact: It does not cause any waste to work, the energy it needs is only chemical, which is from the people who use it, so it does not impact the environment.

Precedents: On Youtube, I had see multiple designs that matter with energy transformation. The reason I choose the air cannon from those multiple designs is that it had shown up in the animation, Doraemon I look when I was a child.

Creative: In this product making I do not have my original element because on the internet there are detailed production tutorials, but on creative the most material need me to process and splice, all of them are raw materials.

CAPSTONE CER

This is a paragraph for my capstone CER. It talks about a problem relay to SDG #3, #4, and #8, which the problem is covid-19. To talk about covid-19, I have 3 supporting question to answer in the text, they are about Economic, Education, and Health, you could found them in the text. Please enjoy.


 

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Is French Revolution worth it? Will to this question, I think yes, it does worth it. This revolution had changed French, even this Revolution had brings death and violence, but after all the bad things people becomes more equal and free,  the power of upper estate had been removed.

 

In this video, we use some paper to tell you what is French Revolution. You could get to know French Revolution better.

Book club

《WORLD WITH OU FISH》by Mark Kurlansky is about what could influence to fish extinct. This book talk about the world with out fish in many form, there are both information and  cartoon to let us know the things will happen if fish disappear, and in this book it mentioned many things would led to this happens. Also the author of the book is trying to tell people stop doing somethings to stop hurting/killing them. As the book goes on it would give as more and more information about the world with out fish, and cartoon would would help you to understand better how bad is that situation by using picture at every end of the book.

 

The first central idea I had met in this book would be: Fish are dying out, because of many different reasons. And this note below would shows my thinking “Fish are dying out, because of many different reasons”

As I keep on reading the book, I could see more and more reasons why fish are dying out are popped out, and all of this support the central idea had agin and agin, on the same time, this all of evidence make me thought, what would be the solution to it and I thought, the solution would be everyone notice the problem going on, because overfishing, pollution, global warming, are all could not solve by a person, and I think this is why the author decide to write this book.

In lesson 9, we are asked to make a web for cause and effect chart, and after I had done that, the chart I made makes me know what is going on to fish, and the ocean better.

In lesson 10 “Re-read lesson” I had Re-read some part of the book that I had thought it would be important to the book, like the accurate numbers and the detail of pollution. As I am Re-reading the book I had specially read about chapter 9, which is about pollution, and I could see how is human are actually pollute ocean, and I am able to be aware of those cause.

 

This is all of this book’s blog, if you feel interesting about why fish are dying out and why that would be important, you could go to found the book 《WORLD WITHOUT FISH》by Mark Kurlansky

Products design: blue tooth speaker

In the last unite of products design we are trying to make a bluetooth speaker, we first use cardboard to check the size, and we cut it in wood form, and we are able to use painting and other technology to make our speaker. We also learn about different type of design and the type of design I had choose to make on my speaker is Art Deco, Art deco is a type of design using shapes and lines to make patten, and the colors are usually black and gold, but while I designing my speaker, I feel like to try new things and so I had add color green and purple base on the color black and gold, and it work out, it looks good, and I really like the colors I had add on the speaker, but the color gold seems like to turn out yellow and I think this might be a imperfect things in my design.

Here below is my final products.

 

Humanities Book club; Ghost

The book Ghost by Jason Reynolds is about a Castle’s 7th Grade, I think the theme of this book is about “keeping on doing what you have passion on will make you better”

 

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