Board Game
We worked in a group of 3 to build our board game. To create our board game, we first came up with different ideas for the design and game rules, then we moved on to learning how to use Photoshop, soldering, and circuitry. I thought this project was fun but also difficult because we were able to come up with our own idea for a board game design, rules, and create circuits, but the difficult parts were communicating with my teammates, reminding them sometimes to stay on task, and finishing up.
For this project, to assign roles, we asked each other what each of us wanted to do and what we thought each person would be best at. Also, we all helped design the board game in Photoshop. I compiled all of our equations into one Google Doc containing 75 questions in total to print out for the Question Cards and Special Cards that I also made. In addition, I made Rule Cards and helped out one of my teammates with the soldering and circuitry.
We worked in a group of 3 to build our board game. To create our board game, we first came up with different ideas for the design and game rules, then we moved on to learning how to use Photoshop, soldering, and circuitry. I thought this project was fun but also difficult because we were able to come up with our own idea for a board game design, rules, and create circuits, but the difficult parts were communicating with my teammates, reminding them sometimes to stay on task, and finishing up.
For this project, to assign roles, we asked each other what each of us wanted to do and what we thought each person would be best at. Also, we all helped design the board game in Photoshop. I compiled all of our equations into one Google Doc containing 75 questions in total to print out for the Question Cards and Special Cards that I also made. In addition, I made Rule Cards and helped out one of my teammates with the soldering and circuitry.
Desmos Art Project
For this project we worked independently, sometimes asking questions from the teachers or our peers. To create this project, we used the graphing calculator on desmos.com which gives the user a free sandbox that allows them to create lines, shapes, and tables using math. During this project, I gained more of an understanding of how to create those lines and shapes with math through trial and error. I thought this project was very difficult because at the beginning it took a lot of time and patience trying to learn how to move the circles up and down, how to cut them to outline this and that, due to how draining it was to look at a screen for 5 minutes per problem (attempting to make the line as perfect as I could or wanted it).
- Before anything, I first wanted to find an image that I wanted to recreate in Desmos. For this, I chose one of my favorite characters from the Japanese anime, Naruto, Rock Lee. After inserting the image into Desmos, I started to get to work. I started off building the smile, then the eyes, and then slowly but surely the chin and cheeks. However, the hardest part was yet to come. After easily constructing the neck, the nose, and the semi-difficult eyebrows and outlines of the hair, I decided to go the extra mile and recreate the highlights of Rock Lee’s hair. After about 7 equations, I wanted to give up. I felt like deleting the equations that I had worked on for about an hour wouldn’t be such a big deal. However, I thought that if I were to persevere this, it would take the image from ‘amazing’ to ‘outstanding’, which sounds better to me. After I was able to get a couple of the equations down, copying and pasting them, then tweaking them a little bit to fit, I had finished. After what seemed impossible, was possible. I’m very happy that I went through with the highlights on the hair because it not only showed how much it really stood out in the final project, but how accomplished and relieved I was afterwards.