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Everyone was put into groups of four, my group members were Jacquelyn Robles, Carley Green and Mitch Coleman. We started off by creating a recipe that has yeast or starter. But because the recipe needed baking soda and baking powder the the first couple weeks of baking didn't make a very successful bread. After many weeks of trial and error our group decided to replace the yeast with the baking powder thus creating an airy muffin that's soft and has pecans and chocolate chips.
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Incubator:
At the beginning of the year we were given bread machines purchased from thrift stores by the teachers. What we needed to do was re-purpose them into doing something new. And my group decided we wanted to turn ours into an incubator. We rewired the circuit board to connect to a thermostat which we then attached into the incubator to try and keep a steady temperature of 90 degrees. Once all the parts were in I took the incubator home and put in fertilized eggs which would need to be incubated for 21 days. And to my surprise it was a success. |
Bike Grinder:
Rural places struggle making there own flour when we can easily buy it at a nearby store. This inspired my group and I to design and build a bike powered grinder to help those people. At the beginning of the building process we had to design a way to attach the grinder to the bike and create a stand strong enough to carry all the weight. As we built, the design constantly changed because of problems popping up that we hadn't though about before. The final product was able to grind the wheat not completely but once sifted you get white flour. Grinder User Manual |
Piecwise Graphs was confusing at first. There were to many variables for me to understand but overtime I got the hang of it. To the right you can see a Piecwise function I created displaying the amount of carbohydrates from seed to a loaf of bread. I researched to gather the exact amount of carbohydrates in a cup of seeds, grass, sheave, flour dough and bread. I then plopped that data onto a graph and made a function to explain the increase and decrease of carbohydrates in each of these steps.
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Long ago father Euclid used compasses and straight edges to create geometric designs. In an effort to be like Euclid we too made geometric design with those tools. After creating our design we used a computer software to make it more precise so when it was laser cutted into our cutting boards it would look very pleasing to the eyes. To the left is the design I created on Illustrator.
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