Our computer towers
Reverse engineering was a really fun unit for me. I liked it because most of the units are just things where you have to work really hard but this challenged you in a different way. The way that this unit challenged me was by making me think differently, because I don't know about everyone else but I would never think to take the parts of a computer tower and make a Rube Goldberg machine! This unit started by having us take apart our computer tower as much as possible, I liked this sections because it wasn't just totally destroying them it was trying to figure out ways to unscrew this or pry it apart, not just smashing it to pieces. Something that I found funny about this unit was that now everytime I see a screw I want to unscrew it and figure out what it's doing. The next part of the unit was actually beginning to think up your designs for your Rube Goldberg machines. At first I was a little confused on what we were doing but then we actually started building it and after that I thought it was a blast. One thing I would suggest telling people before they do it next time is to do a little brainstorming then just start trying to build things because once you start building the ideas come easier.
Our Advertisement
In this video it shows the advertisement that we spent the last 2 weeks of our unit doing. This advertisement was supposed to be advertising our rube Goldberg machine. In this advertisement we had to include many things, some of the things were, how much it costs, how to buy it, why we made, who we made it for, and how it works. It also had to have equal length talking time and include a video of the product in action. I was in a group with Jessika and Anna and we worked really well together.
I think my group did really well on this assignment and I also thought that it was really fun. The reason I thought it was fun is because we got to be creative and the rules weren't very strict so we pretty much got to do whatever we want, as long as it was on task. If I had to do this assignment again there wouldn't be much I would change. I might only change the order of our video clips because I noticed when we watched it that we put some of the video clips in the wrong order which made it kind of hard to understand, but it was still entertaining so people didn't complain. This assignment seemed pretty easy, I think it seemed easy because I was having fun while I did it. When you thin about all the things you had to do it seems like it would be hard but then when you just have fun and be creative it's easy. I liked this assignment because most of the time you got to be creative and work at your own pace, I also liked it because we got sufficient class time to do the project.
I think my group did really well on this assignment and I also thought that it was really fun. The reason I thought it was fun is because we got to be creative and the rules weren't very strict so we pretty much got to do whatever we want, as long as it was on task. If I had to do this assignment again there wouldn't be much I would change. I might only change the order of our video clips because I noticed when we watched it that we put some of the video clips in the wrong order which made it kind of hard to understand, but it was still entertaining so people didn't complain. This assignment seemed pretty easy, I think it seemed easy because I was having fun while I did it. When you thin about all the things you had to do it seems like it would be hard but then when you just have fun and be creative it's easy. I liked this assignment because most of the time you got to be creative and work at your own pace, I also liked it because we got sufficient class time to do the project.