In this unit, I have put a lot of effort into learning about the Mexican Revolution and making this sway. The revolution is made up of great leaders with great mustaches trying to take Mexico for themselves.

The Mexican Revolution

What a wonderful time to be alive,

Go to this Sway

Welcome to my notebook, these are some pages of it. My book that I did these pages on is “Trapped”. Trapped is about a collapse in the San Jose mine where 34 miners got trapped in the mine 2000 feet below the ground. They have a limited supply of food and oily water from machines. These people has stayed under the ground for a grand total of 69 days.

This one is titled “Digging Deeper” not because of the people trying to dig the miners out of the ground, it because you need to dig deeper into the text of the book to find things the author has hidden in the text. This will reveal the things the author is trying to tell you underneath the text.

This page is all about absolute language, this page is extremely important for every book or paragraph you read in your life. This page only talks about the absolute language of the book. Absolute language is the language you use of you are in an argument, for example: You have to do your homework because you will defiantly use them when you grow up.

This page I did on cause and effect of the book. The first one is one cause and two effects, I concluded this with my notes and some bits of rereading to get the facts clear. In the end I have fully made this cause and effect. On the bottom of the cause-and-effect page is my possible themes of the book, we came up with a lot but they are too simple, so we wrote the complicated themes onto the page.

My book is Gospel according to Larry,  this book is about a boy that wants to change the world, but he doesn’t want this popularity so he did all of this as another person, he called him Larry. He has made a big impact on the world, but then he got exposed and obtained the popularity he doesn’t want.

Individualism  

I am a renaissance humanist because I think that without the renaissance our lives will be very different from what we know now, people will still believe that if you do good things in this life then you will go to heaven, but we don’t know if there is a heaven or not. So people started to question the church, they wanted the church to prove the things they say. Not just blindly accepting everything the church says. The people wanted their time on earth the best it can be, so they tried to make the world a better place, and with that, people started improving their life style and we are still improving now.

These last few weeks we have worked on a big project for our grade for the semester. this link is to what I came up with at the beginning of the assignment.  Link to Plan  I did this project with Scott, he did the torch that goes above the box. I was confident that this would work. On the first day, I coded the instructions onto my Circuit Playground Express. In the next class, I did the actual making of the box. I glued the box together and left it to dry, next I sprayed four sides of the box but can’t do the top and bottom because it is impossible to flip it. then I let it dry, and the next class I did the bottom.

The very next class I went to the design lab to finish my box, then Ms. Kim told me that I needed to simplify my project. So I canceled the spray paint for the box because I wouldn’t complete it in time. So I started the sewing, I first put my Circuit Playground Express onto the fabric and the speaker, and now I don’t have time to finish it. the most important lesson I had is to make sure your project is compatible with the deadline. Before you start, you must let the teacher know what you’re working on so you can at least complete it.  Another lesson I learned is always let the teacher know what you are doing at all times.

The code part is fairly easy to get the touchpads done, but the output is not that easy because I wanted the sound to come out of the speaker. the code just doesn’t want to work.  I tinkered about this for a long time and I finally got it right. Now I know how to use everything on Make code, just because trying to find out how to output from A0.

Then another thought came over me, the sewing. the sewing is the main part of the project so I got to sew some of it in class but I finished it in time. Then it wouldn’t work. I checked my code and it has nothing wrong. I also made my dad check it, but it is still wrong. I suspected it to be the hardware’s fault. I tested the speaker with other pins and it worked. So I re-sewed it and it worked. Then it hit me, I didn’t think about the time left for the project. I had to rush and do everything. After simplifying almost everything, I finished.

This is the code I have been tinkering with the whole time.

“In this unit of circuits, we are assigned to make a pin/bookmark” (Scott Wu, 2021, May 5 ) this famous introduction for this unit is very useful for these blogs. ANYWAY, let’s get into the actual topic. For this unit, I choose to make a pin and this pin is an exploding rectangular prism. I got this idea from my drawing teacher (很不负责) he suggests I start simple. I also l did a Mega Rayquaza and the Minecraft pumpkin. This is fairly easy, but getting the Led into and on the felt is the hard part.

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