8P5 Reverse Engineering

List of 10 good ideas

What is the most important part of the computer?
How it was built
How it works
How the parts are used
Quality of the parts
How many parts
What materials are the parts made of
What parts can be upgraded
How expensive parts are
Where are the parts

Planning questions

Are you working by yourself or in a team?

In a team

What materials will you need for your project?

A broken Chromebook, screwdrivers, and an iPad.

What is your plan to create this project?

What unique qualities will your project have?

It will show my learning of computers as I learn.

Day 1

I prepared my website and began taking the chromebook apart.

Day 2

I continued dismantling the Chromebook.

Day 3

I continued removing parts

Day 4

I kept working on taking the Chromebook apart

My Movie 6.mov

Day 5

Day 6

Reflection

Using a Chromebook, screwdrivers, and an iPad. I reverse-engineered a Chromebook. I did this because I wanted to learn what the inside of the Chromebook looked like and how it was arranged.
During this process, I learned that a Chromebook is very complex. It has many different tiny parts inside of it that are all essential for it to work well. I also learned that a Chromebook is much easier to take apart than I had thought.
The 7 standards of the class are Empowered Learner, Digital Citizen, Knowledge Constructor, Innovative Designer, Computational Thinker, Creative Communicator, and Global Collaborator. My project ties to the empowered learner standard because I learned how to define and describe some of the Chromebook parts. It also connects to Empowered Learner because I set a learning goal to learn about the Chromebook and met it.
A challenge I overcame on this project was all of the different size screws that looked very similar. I was able to do it by paying more attention to the screwdrivers I was using. Another challenge I overcame was not understanding the parts of the Chromebook at first, I was able to learn by asking questions and looking at where it was placed.
Given a chance to do this again, I would change into reverse engineering the larger computer. The reason why I would change it is because there are more parts in one of those. Another reason I would change is it would have been more of a challenge to take it apart.
Hastings High School Career and Technical Education Program offers Agriculture, Business Management, Computer Programming, Construction Trades, Culinary Arts, Digital Multimedia, Engineering Design, Finance, Insurance, and Marketing. My project connects to the engineering design CTE program at Hastings High School. It connects to that because I took apart the pieces of a Chromebook to learn about it.
My project connects to careers in software reverse engineering because I took apart a piece of technology to learn more about it. It also connects to this because I understood the design and reversed it.

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