Reflection 13-01-2014

Reflection

In this lesson me, Danae and Rana were researching on ideas for the Tech Fair project. We came up with these choices/varieties to do our project on:

Danae's work:

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/diy-mintyboost-make-your-own-b-68961

This is a charger made out of batteries.

The charger is a small DIY kit is available from the Makershed and works well for any gadget that can be charged via a USB port. It's been tested with iPods, cameras, cell phones, and other gadgets to make sure that it works well. What's really cool is that the power comes from 2 AA batteries. That's right, you just plug in two disposable AA batteries and charging will start






I have found these ideas to make as a project:

http://www.instructables.com/id/200W-Punchy-Boombox-How-to-build/

This is a homemade Boom box for your IPod.

Tools you may need:

• Drill
• Variety of drill bits
• Table saw (or a normal wood saw)
• Hack saw
• Selection of screwdrivers
• Wood and metal files
• Chisels 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3mNXznVQyQ&feature=player_embedded
This is the video for how to make it.








http://www.tvantennaplans.com/

This is an instruction site to make a TV Antenna.

Here's what you need to get started:

1. 22 inch section of 2x3 or 1x3 board
2. 18 Screws
3. 18 Washers, sized to fit on the screws to clamp down wire
4. 15 feet of wire. Roughly 5 feet of copper three conductor house wiring will do fine. Coat-hangers can work if stripped of paint at all connections.
5. Reflector grid (Mesh like reflective metallic material.) Two 15x9 grill screens work well for a few dollars. (See first video below.)
6. One Balun - A thing with a coax plug on one side, two wires with screw holes on the other. These are commonly used to attach old TV's to coax antenna's (or cable.) They are inexpensive (I've seen them in bulk for as little as 30 cents each), and commonly available. My local dollar store carries them!

Tools:

1. Drill
2. Screw driver, or screw bit for drill
3. Wire cutters
4. Pliers

Here is the video you need to make the antenna:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JU5mC8tdUd8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40dOyZIVlPw

This is a video to make a solar powered vehicle/car.

A solar powered vehicle is basically a vehicle on 4 wheels with a solar panel attached on top of the wheels facing the sun. The solar panel then collects the energy from the concentrated sun rays and turns it into energy which then gets conveyed to the wheels through wires to make them spin.









http://www.wikihow.com/Build-a-Simple-Electric-Motor
This is a website on how to make a simple electric motor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKOF1_szaXQ&feature=player_embedded
Here is the video of how to make it!

Rana's Idea:
Rana's idea was to make an app that would control which songs the speaker would play. She planned that a person would have to press a button and say what song they wanted to hear and it would come up and get played and made louder by the speaker.





After discussing these varieties of ideas, we came to a conclusion.

 Me, Danae and Rana have decided to make a mini speaker/boom box connected to a Computer in order to play music. Then we would use Rana's app for the speaker to play the right music.

Here I have found a website to help us throughout the project:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Portable-Amplifier-Speaker-1/