Elizabeth
Heinemann
This is my log book. In class we decorated the pieces of paper, then added about 20 log sheets. My cover has a hand drawn picture of a unicorn riding a surfboard on a wave, and the back has a rainbow. After coloring both sides I binded them together using a machine that adds a book spine to the side.
This is my poster board initial. To make this, i traced my initial, then cut it out using an x-acto knife. Cutting this style out was a challenge because I had to curve my x-acto knife around the edges. Once I had all the pieces, I hot glued them together and waited for it to dry. Then, when it was dry I colored it in. It is very versatile and can be used as an E or a 3.
This is my homemade clip board. First, I measured out the poster board using a blue print. Then, I cracked the clip board so it folded and attached a binder clip. The picture to the right demonstrates how the clipboard could be used, which is to stick a paper underneath the binder clip.
This page is about my prototype design class. In prototype design, we use hot glue, poster board, and x-acto knives to build different projects. We also take measurements and use blueprints to successfully make certain things Below are some of the projects I have made in this class.
This is my rubber band car. As you can see, my car was expertly crafted to resemble the famous Lightning McQueen. I chose this design because as a kid I really liked this movie and wanted to design it to resemble my favorite character Lightning McQueen. When I first started building the car, I ran into some complications. When I tried to wrap my rubber band around my axel, it was constantly getting stuck underneath the straws, so I had to recut them so the rubber band could spin and the car actually move. Another complication I faced was that my rubber band racer kept shifting to the right when in motion. This was because one wheel stuck out farther on one side than the other, so the unbalance caused it to shift. I solved this problem but cutting a small portion of the metal off so there would be an equal amount on both sides. Then, my car went straight. All together, my car traveled about 82 inches, which I would say is pretty impressive for my small car!
"Kachow!" - Lightning McQueen
I made this design by cutting out different pieces of colored paper and designing them to look like features on the Lightning McQueen car. Then, I traced and cut them out and hot glued them to my car.
These are pictures of my penny launcher. This was probably my favorite project because we had to engineer a working penny launcher with only the poster board and hot glue we are given. My structural design is a square box, a pencil for the launcher, a rubber band for resistance force, and a wall to stop the pencil from launching too far. Then, I added a Popsicle stick to hold the rubber bands in place, and a small slit in the front of my design as a place where my pencil could position itself in and provide more stability. My design only needed a few tweaks before it could launch successfully, and averaged a score of 27 points on the board. Then, I decorated it by adding blue paper for the sky, green for the grass, and other details like the clouds and flowers! :)
These are my two jump out photo-shop projects. On the left is Bill Nye and on the right is a goldfish wearing a top hat. These were my first photo-shop projects, so I had to redo them multiple times. For Bill Nye, I kept messing up the background, but after a lot of practice I finally got it. The process of doing both of these includes cutting out the pictures, duplicating them, and shifting them so they faced the direction I wanted. Then, I doubled the canvas size and added a white border to each of the backgrounds.
These three pictures are my celebrity photos. My "starring in" photo is in the top left, and it is me in the cover photo of the movie "Cheaper By the Dozen". I photo shopped myself in between the two siblings by cloning the white background and covering up the actor that was previously there. Then, I put my picture in a changed it so I would be behind the sister. The picture on the left in my celebrity meet and greet photo, however I found this picture and don't really know who it is. I had a challenge with this photo because it was hard making my proportions match his. The picture to the right is my stalking photo, and I am stalking Zendaya and the man walking her dog. I changed the saturation and brightness, and also added a fake shadow to blend with my surroundings.
