SPRING BREAK

Over the spring break I drove hours a day to visit colleges all over New York. Luckily I had the chance to visit my sister, Taylor, graduating from Cornell. She gave me the chance to come watch and help out on her project for a Information Science major. She and her group members are creating a piano. Thermal sensors trigger piano notes when you hold your hand or something over it. Each note corresponds with a different color on a strip of LED lights along wires. She is showing me how to program it.

Design Pinciples and Elements

Assignment is to find 4 household/common items to study. Then list elements and principles of the object and post with a picture.

Strategies of Grades and Relationships

Three ways to maintain or raise your grades as well as building a stronger student-teacher relationship.

- If you aren't understanding anything ask other students or teacher right away.
- Find effective ways to study for upcoming quizes and tests.
- Do your homework completely and with effort, even if you understand the topic.

I can think of many more and I'm sure everyone can think of one. Remember learning can get you to places you imagined being, but had no hope of achieving that at a point in time.

Dream House Week #11

The days seem  to be going faster every week! Sam and I finished the Minecraft prototype with amazing feedback. Mr. Bucko said it was the best house he had built for him over the last years he had participated and he wouldn't change anything. We will continue the process of prototyping with the CAD software that we started after break. Our powerpoint is still being updated and I can't wait for the final to be ready!

Week #10 Architecture Dream House

The project we have started seems like it will be really fun and a great experience working with a "client".

Architecture house mr. bucko from lalaudell

Prototype Slide Show

Prototype Presentation from lalaudell

Week #9 Modes and Methods

Week #9 arrived and we began to look at the different modes of designing and building something. Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test. For Team: Bazynga we chose to do our presentation on Prototype. We discussed what thing we were going to prototype and different ways we could prototype something. We discussed wood, clay, sugar cubes, legos, and other materials. We each picked a material to possibly use. I chose Legos and built a slingshot prototype with my dad, and chose to bring it in to share with my group. We agreed to use it as our model for the presentation. Here is a short video we made by reconstructing the Lego slingshot row by row.