Monday, November 11, 2013

Mandalas!!!!!

Today I've learnt heaps! We had another guitar session today and we learnt two new cords A7 and G and trust me they are not that hard to learn. Also we got some songs to learn, some Elvis songs and Happy Birthday. We worked so hard that my fingers still ache from this morning. Then after lunch we started some new patterns workshops I'm doing Mandalas. Now your probably wondering what on earth is a Mandala? A mandala is a pattern that lots of religions use. What they do is they get alot of different coloured sands (note these sands are not dyed they are naturally coloured sand) and they turn the sand into a picture with theses special brushes and they make a picture with the centre being the seed. Making a sand Mandala takes about six days and then when they are done they sweep it all up and then they take it to the river and pour the sand in and it is a blessing on the world. Then we started to make our own Mandalas, No not using sand using pencil.

Monday, November 4, 2013

Halloween came late...

 We started today with our affective study and I am close to completion now. I just need to add a few things and edit it then it will be done. After that it was time for passion projects and I got to work on my mindstorm again and the best thing is I've completed the shooter bot and its so cool.
It will fire all 6 missiles at whatever target is in front of it. And next week I'm going to make some adjustments to the bot with some more sensors and stuff like that.
Then after lunch halloween came late because I got a bit of a scare. We had a talk about digital citizenship. This is all about keeping yourself safe on the Internet.  We talked about how some people hack things and take people's money and how they hack peoples log ins and do things that that person would not do. I also found out that if you take a photo and put it online people, can find where it was taken.  Once you post something, it is online FOREVER!