-Drafting Midyear Portfolio Video –
This is what the page would look like when it redirects to the video, however in case you don’t watch the video there will be examples of projects and explanations of what they are below.
RPG characters:
As talked about in the video. During the time of the passion project period, I had spent some time modelling characters from dnd (dungeons and dragons). I made the typical characters you could find in a dnd game which are: Monk ( the guy with big gloves), Archer (the green grip with a bow), Rogue (Red hooded person with a dagger), Knight (person wearing heavy metallic armor with a long sword), Cleric (Has a wooden staff and white mask, and finally of course the Wizard (Man in blue robes and blue staff). I had followed plenty of blender tutorials and had finally been able to model these guys.
Salmon Project:
Our second group project in drafting for STEM was the Salmon Project. Now for this originally I was going to make a wooden model of a run down river accident. However, I had missed about 2 weeks of school, so my plans had been set back. When I returned to school my group didn’t have a awareness piece. So I made a poster board to make up for the criteria. The poster consists of many large points about threats and solution to the Alevin stage of a salmons life cycle, such as marine pollution or acidification.
Nature Collage Project:
The Nature Collage Project was the very first project we had done as a group for STEM exercise. There were five major parts for the group I was in for the Nature Collage Project. First is the Plaque which signifies what it is about and has our names carved into it. Second is the weather data chart. As it is very useful information for the habitat we had chosen. Third is the river at the bottom. Fourth the wooden step up hill. And fifth the 3d printer water fall at the top leading down into the river. There other parts as well like the wooden cut trees or the 3d printed deer and bear.
MicroBit Arduino Project:
Here is a photo showing you what the video should look like when opening the redirect link from the blank image or IMG link from below. Of course your media player may vary. But overalll it should start with a mini fan and temperture LED display attached to it.
The MicroBit Arduino Project was a little competition in STEAM were we competed to see who could make the most energy friendly electronic/arduino/MicroBit. Me and Jamie had made a fan which turns on at a certain Celsius temperature threshold and turns off at a certain threshold. You can change the threshold to whatever you may like, preferable the temperature where you start feeling hot. This machine saves energy because instead of being on at all times, it’s only on and uses energy when it’s actually hot and needed.
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STEAM 10 SO FAR-
Gravity Car Project:
The gravity car project was an assignment in which we had to design a car within set limits on the maximum height, width, and length, using the 3d printer, sticker cutter, laser cutter, and any other drafting machine. We then had to station the car at a downward ramp and let go. After that we had to film it, to see how much time it takes for it to reach the first line and final line. Additionally, we had to record all data into an excel sheet. Down below is a screenshot of the car’s model in Fusion 360, if my groupmate provides me with a picture of the actual car within time, it’ll also be below.
Maze Design Project:
The Maze design project was well a project in which we would use an application called Autodesk. We would then use Autodesk to construct a maze however way you like but it would have to include key components like relating to each subject of STEAM, pixel art, Initials, adding a correct pathway sheet, etc. If you wanted to you could also set a theme for your maze, mine happened to be the Death Star blowing up a planet.
Perspective Drawing Project:
The Perspective drawings project was an assignment in which we drew specific things from different points of angle/view. For example, the first one is a room that contains a chair and table next to a window. All of it is pointing towards the center point of the window. Or the third one where we drew a skyscraper where lines had to either line up with the top, left, or right, points. Down below is a link that leads to a pdf that has all drawings in one place or you can just scroll and see all the drawings.
Career (Computer Software Engineer) Project:
Our Career project was an assignment in which we had to pick of course a career in which we were interested the most. And we would then have to research all sorts of things about it like salary, educational requirements, advancements, etc. Afterward, we would have to work on a project which relates to the career. Of course, since this is a passion project/career project, it would be in its early stages. Our project was to make a mod for Terraria. The mod would specifically be about adding onto already existing Terraria content, quality of life updates, and adding our own biome, mobs, NPCs, items, etc relating to nuclear fallout or to another game franchise known as FALLOUT made by Bethesda. Below you will find some sprites and sprite sheets of things we added to the game and perhaps some screenshots of the code required to do this as well.
Lit Launcher Project:
The projectile launcher project was and is an assignment we are currently working on. We are tasked with creating a launcher like a crossbow, cannon, catapult, etc within a 16cm^3 volume limit. Additionally, we have to make a catcher and our projectiles for the launcher. The launchers I’ve decided to work on are a catapult and a cannon. Currently, I’m watching a video on how to make a catapult build-together model. I could just make a basic one, but for once I actually want to learn this. I also found a cannon on Thingiverse with a spring system, which I am also trying to learn how to mimic and learn to make.
Ping Pong Pickup Challenge:
The ping pong pickup challenge was a challenge setup by Science Buddies. In this challenge your were given limited materials and the more you used of each material the more points would be deducted. However, in exchange for using materials the length of your pickup tool would contribute to your points. For example, 30 max sheets of paper, 1 sheet of paper equals -5 points, -1 point per paper clip used maximum being 50mm max, -1 point per 50cm, tape being free, and each cm you can reach and pickup the ball from equaling +1 point.
Our pickup tool was made of 6 sheets of paper and 1 paper clip = -31, our tool reached 155 cm which means we ended up with 124 points.
FPS Unity Rogue Game Project:
For my or our (Jordan M. and Chris L.) capstone project we had decided that since we love to play video games why not make one of our owns. Our game which we have envisioned will be a game based on a overtime speed movement system, A gunplay combat system, a rogue like (In rogue like games you usually restart the game when you die, In our game we will have a Mario level system where If you lose or die you restart from the first level of a world) checkpoint or save point system, as well as an RPG upgrade system or powerups. Of course that’s how it’ll look like in the future, and for now we are hoping to implement some basic scenes or levels, basic variety of enemies, a basic gunplay system, and some early movement into our base game for the STEAM Fair. So far we’ve just been keeping track of our progress on a website known as Trello and have been learning different Unity and C# systems from Youtube or other sites. After learning the basics we have started to make a basic movement system (Using different tutorials and our own knowledge) which can be seen in the two short clips below.
Movement (Walking, Sprinting, Jumping, Crouching, Sliding, Climbing, Grappling, Swinging, and Wall running) –
Carboard Boat Challenge:
The carboard boat challenge was a challenge hosted at Hyde Creek. In this challenge we were given two rolls of tape one being duct tape and the other being waterproof clear tape as well as two large rectangles of carboard. We had to then use these materials to make a carboard boat capable of carrying one more person across a lane in the pool race that will take place in one of the Hyde Creek swimming pools.
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Above link leads to a google photo file that has a video of Chris racing in the pool
SPHERO COMMERCIAL
The Sphero Commercial was an assignment in which we had to program or show off three things you could do with a Sphero Bolt. Which you then had to turn into a short commercial. The three things we decided to do with the Sphero Bolt is to make it go through a maze, hold a sumo fight, and turn the bot into a dice.