Makers Class

Being in Making for my second elective was a fun experience; I enjoyed most of the project and especially enjoyed the Maker Faire. I also learned new skills like how to program an arduino, how to use tools such as the drills and saws, sew, and solder. Each Project over the year was assigned to us to help us gain these skills, we had to make a bench and a pillow for our first project which helped me improve on wood working,how to properly use tools, and sew. Then we had to work on programming an adrunio for a light up wand which helped me in soldering, and programming.  I liked wood working so much that my group decided to make a big bench for our school.

My experiences in making include was fun and exciting. Now I am much more familiar with using power tool. I have learned how to work together as a group and improvise with the materials that are available. This will help me in the future because now I will be able to organize my ideas for future projects. I learned that when you're doing a project, you usually have to modify the project on the way to the final product.

My experiences in making include learning how to build and wire a airplane. These skills will help me in the future if I still want to be a engineer. I learned that this wasnt as easy as it looks.

My experiences in making include a variety of things. I increased my confidence in using tools such as drills and handsaws. I had used solders before, but I had never gotten as much experience as I received from putting together a solar charger. In the Making class I also learned how to correctly wire electricity so that it makes a full circuit in things like the project called Persistence of Vision. My experiences will help me in the future when I am doing a project, so that I know what way to correctly wire electrical items and to persist in creating something. One important thing I learned is that when creating something  plans evolve because the previous one might not have worked correctly.

My experience in making include painting, cutting metal, welding. They will help my by helping out by being able to paint and weld things when needed and also by knowing a little bit for when I start a welding career I learned that when starting a project if u stay committed I actually end up developing and changing ideas.

During this one year in Making class I have experiences from coding with Python to building and painting my own wooden chair. I’ve also solder and worked with Arduinos. Out of these experiences and many more, the most important thing I learn was learning to use power tools to build my own chair. I’ve always been clueless and scared using power tools, but through this class I now have the knowledge in building my own wooden chair or other big projects.

My experiences in making include creating wooden chairs from scratch, designing, sewing, soldering, making LED's work and coding arduinos. The wooden chairs will help me with the skill of making wooden objects such as furniture. Now if I want, instead of buying furniture, I can make it on my own. Designing is a skill which I'm going to use a lot once I start my college career since I'm going into architecture. Although I already knew how to sew, I was able to further practice this skill by making the pillow for our chair. When it came to soldering it really helped me when it came to creating my LED dress because I had to solder the LED's with the wire so that it could stay in place and not create a short circuit. Lastly, making helped me learn how to code arduinos by just observing how each part of the code created a change. But most importantly I learned that no matter how easy and simple something might be, you're always going to encounter a challenged, but instead of giving up we must persist and try to find solutions to our problems because the ending result can be even more rewarding because you know you worked hard to make it work and finish.

My experiences in Making include soldering, making a chair, programming, and working on our final project. Through the process of working on our final project, the mind controlled robot, I have learned to persist. There were times that nothing was working and we just wanted to give up as a whole team. We still continued to work and research as much as we could even when we didn’t know where we were heading. At first we thought that our project was very straight forward and it would be easy to get it done, but then we realized that it wasn’t like that at all. Our ideas developed and changed overtime. The mind controlled robot was completely different and more difficult than I thought. At the end the mind controlled worked out fine, even when we thought we were not going to finish on time.

My experience in the making class has allowed me and other students to be creative and build projects. Not only do we get the ability to create what ever we want, we get to work with others interested in the same topic. Being in the Making class I have learned how to solder, build a chair, sew and create solar chargers. Through out this process I have learned to be persistent because very often when making a project it does not turn out the way we want it. This allows us to problem solve and constantly try to fix our project until it works properly. All in all, the Making class was a great experience that allows students to be innovative and learn life skills that could be very useful in the future.

My experiences as a student in Making were great because I learned a plethora amount of things. I learned to use handsaws, drills, learned to sew and solder and work with computers and arduinos. We build chairs that we painted, we made vision wands (making words appear on a stick using arduinos and LED lights), and build a redwood bench that is now sitting outside our school by a tree. I had never imagined building something like a bench or chair but after this class I was able to do this. My peers and I had came up with our own design for the bench that was constantly being changed and by the ending we found that our design was a lot different then what we first had planned. I am really glad that I was a part of this class and definitely enjoyed my time in Making as I had gained a lot from being in the class. I have become more creative, was finally able to make my own project, and have learned new skills that will be useful later in life.

I learned how different ways of placing things can make different options.

My experiences in making include making a airplane and learning how to fly it. They will help me in life because now I know how airplanes work.I learned how to build a plane.

Catapults getting photographed by a Taiwanese Magazine at Maker Faire!

Teaching people how to make plastic molds with a vacuform!

Duct Tape Wallets & Beyond!

After!