Wardies wonderful workshop tour.

Today in this lesson we got to have a tour of the workshop. We learnt a lot of things and these are some of the points.

Wardies wonderful workshop tour 

- never use a machine if you are unaware of how to use it. Ask Mr Ward.
-always stay out of the yellow line if someone is using the machine. 
-Always wear safety spectacles and a apron when in the yellow line.
-always place things back wear they came from.

This was a good lesson because then I know how to use machines and know how to stay safe within the workshop and work productively.

Lesson 3:

Today in Design Futures we chose our lamp we want to do and tried to design the shape with wire so we can get the idea of our shape that the lamp would be having. I changed the shape I was doing because I couldn't do such tight curls so I changed to a simpler design.

Lesson 2, 2012; Light!

In design futures lesson today l learnt about light as we are making lamps. I found out that light years means how far away the star or planet is. For example if a star explodes but it is 130 light years away then we would only on earth see it 130 years later! This lesson was actually really interesting and I enjoyed it and was engaged in the things we were learning about light! here are some examples of light. even though you can't see it or touch it, you can see the effects of it :)

Lesson 1; 2012

Today was my first lesson in Design Futures but third for others. Today I drew sketches for what I wanted my lamp to look like. I did a lot of variety's like straight, curvy, wavy even wrinkly and now i am just looking back and seeing which one stands out to me the most! The picture above is all the ones i have drawn. I hope by next lesson i have picked which one i like!

Lesson 9

Today in lesson 9 i put together my grey and red wires. I had to cute a table and a half length of all the colours (one grey and 2 red). Then after cutting you chopped the plastic rubber end off a little bit off the ends of all the wires and i had to make sure that i twisted the wire once the rubber was cut off. i had some trouble because people told me to only chop the little rubber thing of the wires on one end only! so it was a bit annoying to have to go back to do that but after i did it was all good. after that Mr Andrews showed us (the ones who have done the wire) to use the heating thing, whoops i forgot the name! and i will use that next lesson i go :)

Lesson 8

This lesson in Design Futures I glued on my motors and batterys on my remote control with a glue gun. The glue gun takes forever to heat up though so I was standing around for a bit. But first before I stuck on my motors jazmin showed me how to do it and I had to make sure that the gold bits were facing up but once she showed me how to do one I did the other :) but with the battery on the remote I knew I could do this easily :) I finished early so I went into the next room and did my blog, which is this one! Haha this fun was very fun :)

Lesson 7

This lesson in Design Futures I glued my wheels on. I was very scared to put the glue on because number one I haven't ever glued and I was scared it was going to burn me! And second of all I didn't want to place my axels and wheels on the wrong way and it stays and glues on and I can't move it! Thankfully it went all good and it turned out perfect! :)