My Stop Motion Project

Welcome back! This time I'm going to be talking about stop motion.

We got a stop motion app on the Ipad so we can make little movies. The first movie we made was by Aidan, he did a little battle scene for his series "Hero's of Agaria."





My first movie was called "Mr. Snowman."
Basically, there were parts of a kit so you can make a snowman all scattered around the floor, and they started to come together to make a snowman, after that, the snowman starts waving hello at the end of the video.




Also, my brother Peter made a video called "Stop Motion Snack."




My next movie on stop motion will be made with clay. My movie will be called "Erupting Volcano."

My Contraption Kit

Hello Guys! I'm back again! This post is going to be about the Weird and Wacky Contraption Lab.

Basically, my aunt Nena gave me a contraption lab for my birthday. You can make a ton of contraptions with some tracks and pieces that can stick on a Velcro wall.

Here is a picture of the pieces that come in the set.




Demolition with a Contraption

My 1st design

 

2nd Awesome design

                                             Third Design

Parts of Everstorm

Welcome back!

 Today I'm going to show you the parts we put on this morning for our final robot, Everstorm! He's the leader of all the Mindstorms. Aidan and I have made Tracker, Spiker, Reptar, and Gripper.

We have built the legs, body, and one of hands so far.



Side view

back view

 

                                                             front view



 The next part is the head, spinning triblade, and the blasting bazooka.  In the picture below is the 3D builder app which shows the steps to make the robots.

Stemist Kit "Sound" Making the Hand-made guitar

The last instrument I made is a handmade guitar.

For this project I needed the "Groovy box" for a sturdy frame, the sound maker template, a plastic cup, four rubber bands, a stir stick, two brass fasteners, and the strap.

First, I needed to get my third plastic cup and the four rubber bands (Two thick, two thin.) and stretch them over the cup. Hint: If you don't like the sound of the rubber bands, pull them tight to "tune" them.

 Next, I had to trace and cut out a body and neck for the sound maker. I used the stir stick to support the neck. After I did the neck, I needed to cut a bit of a flap off so I could connect it to the body. I used the tape to keep it on. After that, I put the cup in the hole of the body.

Lastly, I put the strap on with two brass fasteners.

                                                    kinda small, but perfect

First Post

Welcome to my blog! I'm going to show you parts of Stemist kits I receive once a month from "Groovy lab in a box."  Sometimes, I may share other things I like to make.

My first Stemist  kit is all based on making sound. Basically, the guide says to make a sound maker that makes three different types of sound. I have finished three sound makers already, and I'm in the middle of making the last one.As  you can see only two instruments are in the picture below, that's because the "Groovy Whistle" wasn't really groovy. It didn't work!

 

The first sound maker I made was a balloon rattle. The balloon has two small packets of salt inside it to make it sound kind of like a rattlesnake. Next, I made some drums. I used two plastic cups and I stretched two balloons over the cups. (First you need to cut the small ends off.)Just to make them sound different, fill one cup half way with water.( Careful! Make sure not to spill it!)  But before I made the drums, I made the "not so groovy  whistle."