Month: March 2022

This assignment was to make your own pinewood derby car and race it. We were given a small box with a piece of wood wheels and nails. First, you cut your piece of wood into the shape that you wanted your car to be. Then you created your wheels in onshape and printed them. Lastly, you put more weight on your car and raced them.

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

What worked was putting the car together it was very easy and simple. What didn’t work well was my wheels were very wobbly so I edited them and added a hub to help stabilize them. Something I would change is the shape of my car, I think if I spent more time on it I could’ve found a more aerodynamic shape. I would also change the entire design of my wheels, they weren’t very well thought out and I could definitely make them better.

This project was our introduction to electronics. We had to build a Simon says the game out of an Arduino and your electronic kits. Putting everything together was pretty easy I did it in about 1 class. The only thing that didn’t go well was one button (yellow) was grounded weirdly so that every time we started the game it thought the yellow button was being pressed. I didn’t struggle with anything for this project, everything went to plan

What I used: 4 Buttons, 4 LEDs, Buzzer, Jumper Wires, 5 10k Resistors, 4 1k Resistors

• 

• 

• 

what worked: I was successful at making the bread so just about everything went well. Nothing really was that big of a problem the only thing that took a while needing the dough but it worked eventually. Something that I would change is making a different type of bread. white was very easy to make and I think that if it was a different type it would be more fun and challenging to make.

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

The purpose of this assignment was to learn and get comfortable with soldering. we made a Conway game of life and connected all of them at the end to make a big colony. we learned about Conway’s game ( accidentally found a google easter egg) and got better at soldering.

• 

• 

• 

What went well for me was soldering. I found it pretty simple and easy. When I was done soldering I tested my game with a battery pack and it worked. Nothing didn’t really work well for me so that was nice. I wouldn’t really change anything about this assignment I think it was helpful and got the job done.