Today we learned about resistors, LEDs, capacitors and circuit bending through the best type of learning: hands-on. We tested the resistances, voltages, and currents of resistors, batteries and LEDs and learned several tricks and equations that help wi...
Today we brought in junk from our houses to hack. Mostly everyone got to hack a phone, though. The things I brought to hack were: headphones, an old cell phone, an mp3 player/voice recorder, and a VCR. I also brought in a toothbrush, which I am told...
Yesterday, after we posted in our blogs, we did projects that we didn’t get to blog about. Today, we have a chance to write about our experience yesterday. We got to create a robot yesterday: the Squigglebot. We had a light up fan and four marke...
Yesterday, some people got to hack computers and printers, while we got to hack a VCR!!! (VideoCassette Recorder). This was my first big hack, so I was very excited. Inside the VCR were several gears and electric parts, and a few motors. The first th...
The majority of our day today was spent going through piles of junk and turning it into sculptures or robots. I made a robot that spun around incredibly fast, with LEDs to draw circles in midair. The original idea had plans for 2 arms protrud...
Today we made junkbots, robots made of junk. Mine was a rapidly spinning motor with an arm containing two LEDs on it.
