Integrated Circuits, Political Butterfly
During construction of my butterfly, I got most help from my peers and the people around me. If I had a question or a problem, I would ask a student that was near me, and if they didn't know, I would ask Mr.Schwartz. I got a lot of helpful feedback from Chloe Huff, because she was with me the whole time I was constructing my butterfly, and if she saw something she thought I could improve on, she told me. The biggest way I used critique was on the mechanical aspect of my butterfly, because I would often run into problems and I would ask for others' advice and apply it to my butterfly. For the physics portion of this project, I created a mechanical system, a circuit including 5 LEDs, and butterfly wings, and I put them all together to created a moving butterfly that lights up. Throughout the course of this project I learned how to create a parallel circuit, and how they can be more efficient than series circuits. I think that the overall final product of my butterfly went the best. Even though it took a long time and was quite difficult to get my butterfly working the way I wanted it to, when I finally did get it working, I was really happy with how it turned out. A major conflict I had in the construction of my butterfly was my electrical. I had done a loosely coiled model of the circuit I would be creating, and once I got my butterfly working I began to work on it, but I was paused and had to continue to work on it later. When I went to look for it, it was gone, nowhere to be found. To overcome this, I had to ask another student to use some of their electrical supplies to create a modified version of my electrical circuit. I think I did really well with being patient and persevering, even when my butterfly was really annoying and difficult to work on. I could have done better with managing my time, because at one point, I did get a little behind and it stressed me out. If I could change my final product, I would change the electrical portion and make it to how I wanted it originally.