Jackson Humphries' High School Portfolio

Learning Journal

7/26/23 - What is art? How can other subjects be art?

Art is something manmade that invokes a strong emotional feeling. This means art can even be a subject in school. Art could be a book you read in literature, a historical painting in social studies, A colorful reaction from a science experement, or an intricate sculputre created using careful measurements. All of these use one of the steam subjects to potentaily create strong emotions. This is how other subjects can be art.

Shape Practice 8/4/23

Jackson Humphries - Experimenting with Shapes

Buddhist Mandala

A mandala is a sand drawing designed to help with its creator's meditating. The Mandala features the pattern principle of design. Each line has a repeating set of features. I could make an artistic representation of an atom that is based on the mandala by making the layers of the art like the energy levels of an atom.

10/30/23 Chemvas Journal Entry

My mandala project connected to classes like AP world history and world literature. This is because we have based our project off of mandala's which have a prominent purpose in several old cultures and religions in the world.
Throughout this year, I have done many projects and demonstrated all of the principles of design and elements of art. for example, my cobalt drawing showed emphasis, value, and space, and my electron mandala showed pattern, movement, balance, and Repetition
I experiment with different possibilities In my planning my experimenting and iterating. when I am making art, I will usually make several trials of what i am drawing to try out color combinations or designs. I can show my progress by recording each iteration of my design
In class this year, I looked at many historic art pieces, for one project, we reviewed and art database looking at examples of the elements of art and design. we also looked at a paintings for examples of the rule of thirds

1/3/2024 Borax Crystal Scupltures

Borax is a salt like chemical used in laundry and cleaning. it is made from the elements oxygen, hydrogen, boron, and sodium. In our project, we use hot water to increase the amount of borax that solution can contain. This is called supersaturation. when the water cools, it makes it deposits borax crystals on my sculpture. My sculpture is dynamic because it is a symmetrical model of earmuffs. it is fully three dimensional and is made from spiraled pipe cleaners that make cones and connected by a central wire.

2/14/24 Black Artist Share

Jackson Humphries - Black Artist Share

3/15/24 Abstraction and STEAM

During the nineteenth century, most artists focused their art around trying to emulate the real world drawing realistic and perspective portraits and landscape. In the later part of the century and in the beginning of the twentieth century, a new movement called impressionism formed who's ethos boiled down to almost completely abandoning realism in exchange for abstract hues and forms to convey their art's message. While this movement was centered in the west, the older African and Native American art also used methods similar to abstraction. for example, African art typically uses vibrant patterns in way that makes one larger object in the drawing.

How do you think abstract art could be related to science or math? How can data be used to create abstract art?

I think abstract art could be related to science and math because geometry or chemical structures could be used to inspire art. data can be used to make abstract art by taking some sort of statistic from that data, and using it or it's concept as part of the art.

Do you think you like to work in a more personally expressive way or one that is perhaps more based on data?

I think I would like to work in a more expressive way.

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Chemvas solar ballons

Today in Chemvas, we used our knowledge of Charles's law to make solar balloons that would float in the air for a bit. the way the balloon floats is by using Charles's law, stating that a rise in temperate increases the volume of the gas in the balloon to expand. Since the balloon is black, it absorbs sunlight which heats up the air in the bag making the bag levitate

8/3/23 Science in Engineering

1) What is soldering?

Soldering is when you melt soldier to fuse two electrical components

2) What is the purpose of soldering

The purpose of soldering is to join two electrical components together easily

3) What is Melting point. Does copper or solder have a higher melting point

Melting point is the temperature a substance turns into a liquids. Copper has a higher melting point than soldier because when you are soldiering the solder melts on contact with the iron but the copper does not

8/10/2023 Drawing in Engineering Class

Box

Box with flaps

Disc top view

Disk front view

Stop Light Activity

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What do the lights on the breakout board do and how do they relate to the LEDs?

The lights on the breakout board show when a current is activated in that input.

8/24/23 Computer Aided Drawing/Drafting in Engineering

Robot Wheels

Robot Chassis

Robot Sides

Side view of a car for Fun

Engineering - 9/12/23

Grid of Squares

Four Leaf Clover

Artistic Eclipse

Free Draw: Pizza

In class we are using onshape to make the parts to our robot. In the application you create shapes and adjust their dimensions to make shapes we can cut out.

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Pico Chaser Pattern

Today we coded a light pattern on our Pico. It rapidly turns on and turns off 25 lights along the pico. I used the serial monitor to scan my code for bugs to fix. it scans your code and gives you an error report saying what and where the problem is.

Physics of my Robot 9/21/23 - Engineering

1) Normal force is proportional to Friction. when normal force pushes up on a object touching another object, friction is created. the amount of normal force in play is proportional to the amount of friction keeping the two objects from moving.

2) Friction is moving forward when my robot is trying to move. When the wheel rolls, the bottom of the wheel is moving backwards. This causes friction at the base of the wheel. The friction under the wheel makes it move forward like it is pulling itself across the ground.

3) The equation for kinetic friction is f\/k= (mu\/k)(F \/ n). I can increase the weight of my robot or change the material the wheel is made of to a substance with more traction to increase the grip.

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9/29/23 Robot moves forward, back, left, and right.

Today, I got my robot to move forward, back, left, and right in order. My github code along with my functions are here.

10/24/ 23 Engineering Onshape Box Assembly

Assembled Box In Onshape

I used the Extrude and Planar Mate tools to turn the sides of my box into an assembled box in onshape.

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11/3/23 Robot Traverses Path

I used mu to code my robot to autonomously traverse a set path. I used function to make my robot move along the route, then turn after a certain amount of time to navigate turns. My code for the path is here

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11/3/23 Control Robot With Phone

Today in class I used a Bluetooth library, a Bluetooth module, and mu to code my robot to accept commands from the dabble app on my phone. You can find my code here.

Engineering Drawing Practice 11/3/23

Truck

Tractor

Robot

Project Cover

Project Overview and Constraints

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Two Servos Working

Today in class i got two servos working using my pico computer.

The github code is here

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Get RGB Working

Today in class I got my RGB sensor code to work. It works alongside the servo code

My basic combined code is here

Aditional Wiring

Wiring Labels and Chart

Diagram

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Skittle Singularizer

The goal of my singularizer is to separate the individual skittles in my sorter so they can be scanned individually. The steps we undertook to make it was planning through sketching, creating prototypes using cardboard and 3D printing, and then assembling a working prototype onto our sorter prototype. our current iteration is not functional because it requires more precision as pieces are bent slightly. what I will likely do is 3D print or laser cut another prototype so that there will be less problem causing inaccuracies

ELA PBL Project - Shaping our world

Shaping our World - Script Writing II - 9/15/23

Today, we finalized our play. we added the end parts and made final optimizations to the background details and formating of our script.

Shaping our World - Script Writing - 9/12/23

Today, we made the first act of our play script where 3 tourists are talking with a tour guide about ancient greece.

Shaping our world - Project Planning II - 8/7/23

Today, we planned the plot of our play and delegated roles of our play. The play will be about the poleponesian wars.

Shaping our world - Project Planning - 9/5/2023

Today in class, me and my group planned out our play. we wrote down essintail notes on our civilization we are modeling in the play as well as making a small plan of the actual play.

PBL Project - Shaping the Word Prelinary Work - ELA 8/31/23

Today, we each signed a group contract dictating how we would work on our project. We also made a group google drive folder.

AP CSP: I Can Statements

10/18/23

I can:

Use operators in functions to perform math equations.

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