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Sam Iles 8-5 2023 capstone project

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Salt a World History by mark Kurlansky is about how salt was used throughout history in many ways, and its many uses. This book is terribly slow and will only be interesting to a select few, who like the author would waste their time on a book called salt and go on and on and on about it. But still if you want to read it then go ahead but you have been warned.

These are some of my first notes, I also boxed what I felt at the time was the main ideas at the start of the book, I also showed how some cultures used salt.

Here I connected cause and effect using India rebelling against the British Empire and how salt was involved, when the British lost their slat monopolies in India they lost a lot of money and power.

 

Nearing the end of the book the central idea became Salt is money money is power. Here I connected my main idea with how the Chinese managed slat to make loads of money, how the romans paid their soldiers with salt, how Venice  manipulated markets of salt, how the Egyptians may have been very important to the trading world. At the end I put it all together.

Me and my partners where brainstorming ideas for designing a utensil to help eat certain foods, one of the first things we thought of was when people eat chips they get oily hands so we thought that eating them with chopsticks would work however, chopsticks are not a new invention. Next we thought of a basket/net thing that would keep your hand clean when eating popcorn. Also sushi falls apart so we thought of edible glue. We also thought of a grabber hand that would give pizza a structure so the contents would not fall of the end of a droopy pizza, and it would also keep the grease off your hands. Next we thought of a noodle spinner that could collect noodles efficiently, like a powered fork for eating spaghetti but for all noodles. We also came up with a burger stand, the idea for this was that when people eat burgers, the contents of the burger just fall out the back so by placing you burger on it, the burger stand stops the contents of the burger from falling out. Another idea was bone disintegrating acid, this one is definitely different from the others, the concept was the that fish are too boney so disintegrate them.

 

The feedback that we got was not especially useful, but very supportive of the noodle spinner and we ended up using that. Some of the feedback we got was,  “wouldn’t the noodle spinner be messy.” we hadn’t thought of that before so we made the noodle spinner have controls so you can choose how fast you want it to go.  Another was on the burger stand that was about if you take the burger out it would fall apart, the burger stand was meant not to hold a burger just to stop the stuff falling out.

 

The strengths of our utensil would be that it is designed for all noodles, it has adjustable spinning speeds so that noodles don’t go flying everywhere when you use it. It is easy to charge, it also has a comfortable handle for maximised comfort when spinning up noodles.

In design we were challenged to solve a problem that your partner had with food waste. My partner had the issue of sushi falling apart when dipped in soy sauce，so I made a sushi holder. My biggest problem when making this invention is when I realised that you can’t make 3d shaped spheres with cardboard. I then  decided do make it with squares. My greatest success was making was measuring correctly.

The problem was we needed heat in the water.We were making a cup insulator. We first made a sketch then we made a prototype, and then we made a final product. My claim is that felt was a great insulator.  The following sentence highlight my evidence: When the cup with out a insulator it started with 92.6 then ended with 71.1, when with the insulator it started with 87.3 then ended with with 73.9. my reasoning is that there was a big difference when using the felt Some how the felt stoped the heat very well. I am very proud with how good it was at insulating. One thing that I would like to do differently is ad more to the design.

 

One of the things that I would change with my game is make it so the marbles can’t go into the corners or in the wall. When they do go into the corners or in the wall, you cant get them out so you need to reset the game. It has made the game a little less fun. I would fix this by making the edges like hills.

If I did this project again I would make the game a little longer so the players stop bashing into each other. This happened quite a lot because the players were energetic and the size of the rink was too small.

My biggest success was getting the game done on time so the 4th grades could give it a go. This was a big success for me because I came late and only had 3 classes.