Last Wednesday, during our unusual class at a special classroom located in the Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship, we got the chance to put our creative mind to work and get physical with different toys and mini-machineries, awaiting to be assembled by the eager zicklin scholars.
Before long, the classroom was filled with a bunch of 20-years old children, dispersed around the room working on their little project. I teamed up with my buddy, Mike to build an auto-rotating-circular-sketcher. The main reason we picked this particular project is its ability to draw circles in various patterns and the parts are not too complex to assemble. The sketcher is powered by a battery and a rotating motor that mobilize the machine. It is similar to the technology we see in a toy car, so that was not the first time we were using that technology.
The process is perhaps the most enjoyable moment because we had a lot of fun when we were trying to assemble different parts together. At one point, the machine was out of control and fell off the table because it was unstable yet. During the process, the sketcher generated artistic circles on the paper and also the table, which we have to clean it up later.
In the end, we ran the machine and drew a few circles with it before it was stuck by the uneven platform. We learned valuable lesson on how to construct and assemble different parts into a working machine, which was not taught in a conventional classroom. If given more time, I would like to also join the team who was working on the LegoLand, so I can build my own town too.
The state-of-art sketcher and a masterpiece created by it
