Eva’s Speaker “Design Reflection”

I struggled a lot in 2 places, my 1st struggle is  finding a place to put the chip,  I wanted my speaker to be rounded in the corners, but the chip is right cornered, so it was very hard to solve it. My second struggle was finding a way to measure the speaker box, because it was rounded so it wasn’t really right.

I am very proud that I found a way to solve these 2 problems, by making a facade that has rounded corners on the top, and right corners at the bottom, so I can but my right angle chip inside. I decided to make the top corners still round, because I wanted it to look more like a kawaii aesthetic, and I felt like if it was a right corner, it will not be as cute.

If I started it from the beginning and did it again, I would add a layer of wood on the speaker, because my speaker right now is very fragile, and if I accidentally pressed the speaker, it will be useless, and break, I would also make a frame, because I forgot to make one, and so I used popsicle sticks, and pretended that it is a frame. I haded to put a layer, because the nails were sticking out, so I couldn’t stick facad on my speaker.

My first song I plan to listen to is “Jar Of Hearts”, it is very important to me because my sister preformed this song for a school performance, and it was her favorite song, so I decided to learn it. I wanted to surprise my sister about it, because she went to Columbia for summer camp for about 2 months. I eventually learned it, and I did surprise her, she was really amazed when she sang it again, and I sang it with her. I also learned how to play it on the ukulele and on my cello. This song has become one of my favorite song from that on, and I will always remember it. And I choose this song because my sister is going to Sydney in about 2 weeks, and I’m going to play it for a memory.

Cup Warmer

Cup warmer

 

For my cup warmer, I think that it worked pretty good, it only dropped 10 degrees. My partners are Serena and Jade. At last our cap fell off and we had a little bit of material, so we just use tape from our homeroom and just fixed it. We did 2 experiment, the first one dropped like 16 degrees, but after we fixed the cap it was better, so I think we did a great job observing and making changes to make it better! I think if we do this again what we’ll change is making the cap better,  we can maybe make the cap thicker and use more foil, because the cap is mostly made out of foil, and it’s the hottest part of the cup. So it can trap for heatness and coldness, because when you buy cold stuff from the grocery store it gives you something like foil. So I think foil does the best job.

 

My mini cardboard creation “basketball!”

My biggest success is I made the 4th graders happy, and having fun with my partner Daisy.L, we laughed a lot but we learned a lot things, like duct tape is bad for cardboard, because when it has air in it, it breaks… I wish there was more time on design class and I had a lot of fun with Mr.Laymond! Me and Daisy  figured a way to let the cardboard stick, it was still using the duct tape but sealing the edge so it could bend. When the 4th graders came it didn’t really break because we made it more stable, and I think the 4th graders had a lot of fun!