I make some very soft chocolate chip peanut butter cookies that I love. They are very simple and easy, with the total time to make them a being under 15 minutes. The process is hard to mess up. As long as all ingredients are properly measured, then it will all work out. The past 2 times I have made these, they always come out taller than i would like, so I should probably make smaller balls of the dough. However my family likes the taller cookies like that so its not too important. My success always comes out with the softness. A soft cookie will always over power a hard one. Im not sure if there is much to learn beside the fact that tall cookies are as good as flatter ones.
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The 3D puzzle really was a bust. I already grew frustrated at my sketches and the time consumption. I spent a lot of time watching youtube videos on people assembling 3D puzzles so I could get ideas. I found a three piece one that I liked and tried to sketch but thennnn I remembered that it had to be 5 pieces based off the rubric. Soooo dropped that idea and proceeded with just a simple square. I drew out all the steps and measured + color coded each piece. It was satisfying to look at. However with my stubbornness to google sketch up.. minimal time was taken to work out making my pieces. I also started working the day it was due and I have a bad habit of convincing my self that when I am tired I may as well do no school work since it'll be lesser quality anyway. Its definitely harder to focus when I know Im so close to being done. Especially with AP exams (1/2 done), the puzzle fell down the priority list.
Hello, long time no blog. This is a major delay considering my key chain I submitted has been done since school was "finished", with the exception of some minor tweaks. I used my star design from super Mario bros. It was just what I felt the most confident with. I had also tried to make the walking bomb design, which I learned how to make spheres from. However when it came to making the feet, face, etc, it didn't work out. I personally just get easily frustrated with sketch up. Especially since we are all home, working on sketchup isn't like using illustrator. When you hit an issue with illustrator there are peers around you to help. With sketchup, If I struggle its either a cryptic google search or a delay in help from video call. Plus a mixture of me just getting annoyed entirely and moving onto a different assignment. I was glad to have finished 90% of my star before school got out.
Nothing new has happened. I am awaiting "optional" material from my teachers. I have lost productivity and fight to regain. I am not going to address that pandemic situation because its all everyone wants to talk about which I understand. But I also believe feeds into mass hysteria. I have been listening to random older podcasts from a few months ago, or I like to listen to educational podcasts in spanish. They usually tell stories or describe different spanish cities. I just am trying to not become devoted to an obsession over covid-19. The issue it self I find interesting considering I am more curious to the scientific side, and the effects it'll have later on. Ex. possible baby boom? Thats all I have to say.
I don’t remember what we did in school because it seems so far away and possibly may not be returned to anytime soon. I was starting my Mario themed key chain ideas if I remember? But ran into some google sketch up hiccups. Did learn how to make a star and a sphere though so that was satisfying but took far too much time.
In terms of school shutting down, it still feels unreal. Not sure what I’m gonna do with all this time . Corona doesn’t scare me too much but the lockdown part does. I don’t want to be stuck in my house. Part of me also wonders if once really everyone gets the virus, what if you’re just immune after. That’s a scary thought for the people susceptible to extreme illness for the virus. But you never know. Many suspicious things. I dont really remember much of this week. I "finished" my lamp, but theres yet for it to be printed. So, the lamp is almost a closed project but I would still say it is on hold unfortunately. In the 3D world, I printed my tiny house. It didnt really come out well at all. In my file, my house was hollow. Yeah it didnt print like that though. Still confused on that. There was a lot of filament within my home. I wish I knew what went wrong so that I could avoid that mistake again. However, also not even sure if it was my fault or the printer? Very confusing times. All I can hope is that when I make my key chains in sketch up, they wont flop.
Monday and Tuesday were days dedicated back to lamp designs. I had forgotten the logistics of how to make my design work, so that was a bump in the road and very annoying as well. With the two snow days in the middle of the week, that did not help creativity and project progress. At this point I just want to be done with my lamp. I hate how long projects get dragged out and that I dont have illustrator either. And first hour it self is hard to be awake, even though id consider my self a morning person. No brain is at full function yet. Thats all I got.
The three day week was dedicated to 3D printing tiny home models. It was a rough start the first day since I just had selected reference images and I did not want to start on sketch up. But once I started modeling, it was beginning to be more and more creative. I am not sure that I have my final result yet, but I have been saving different models. I want a open, "windowy" space. Each model seems to be a little more creative each time, so hopefully that trend continues.
La semana pasada, mi proyecto de lámpara se recuperó. Estaba teniendo problemas y sentí que había llegado a un punto muerto, pero pude dibujar mi diseño a mano. Lo escaneamos y luego la imagen lo rastreó en ilustrador. El único problema ahora es que no se cortó bien en la forja incandescente. Con suerte eso se puede arreglar. Me siento mejor con mi proyecto en general.
Translation: This past week, my lamp project picked up. I was having issues and felt like i reached a stop, but i was able to draw my design by hand. We scanned it and then image traced it in illustrator. The only issue now is that it didnt cut well in the glowforge. That can hopefully be fixed. I feel better about my project overall. For some inspiration: “I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.” ― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography of Nelson Mandela Starting the 3D printing program sketchup was okay. I still dont understand it yet but im to experiment further after this post. Im finding it hard to focus on my lamp design when im starting other side projects. Just the way I like to work is to focus all my attention onto one subject so I can be the most concentrated and effective with my time use. I also feel like thats why we are working slower than other groups. because we cant fixate on a single project when they all blend.
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