3D Printing

Hellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today I will be showing you how to 3D print!!! Here are the steps!

1. First find a design on Thingiverse. (turtles are good to start with).

2. Download it to your folder and open your folder.

3. Get the SD card from the printer.

4. Turn on the power switch that's in the back.

5. Press the 'M' button that is on your Makerbot replicator  and use the arrows to select 'Preheat' which should be on the screen. 'M' is to select.

6. Take the SD card and put it in the laptop. Copy what you want to print onto the SD card.

7. Wait for the printer to heat and put the SD card back in the printer.

8. Take out the color from the tube and replace it with the color you want.

9. Select what you want to print on the screen.

10. Watch it print.

11. when it's done use something with a hook and scrape what you made off of the platform so you can grab it with out touching the platform.

12. Grab it and pry off the grid looking thing underneath it.

13. You are done.  YAY!!!!

I hope you enjoyed 3D printing and I hope all that you do with it will turn out well. Play around with different colors and soon you will be able to make tons of stuff by 3D printing. Good luck and keep experimenting! 

Yosemite National Park

                  

Yosemite National Park 

                                                                                                                                                                   

  There is a deer,  a chipmunk, and a blue jay that lived in Yosemite. they were having a chat one day when a girl named Isabelle came up. The chipmunk and the jay disappeared leaving the deer standing alone. She thought the girl by the name of "Isabelle" seemed nice and decided to talk to her, saying "Hi".  Isabelle seemed very surprised when she said that.  She said, "You...TALK?"  "I sure do."  "Wow.  So, I'm Isabelle, what's your name?"  "I'm Snowy since I don't mind snow and I'm white.  Here, let me show you the park."

They spent all day looking at Half Dome.  They decided to finish off by seeing the CA Tunnel Tree and the Giant Grizzly.  "Wow, that is HUGE" Isabelle said as the approached the Giant Grizzly.  "Oh, hey!  There are my friends the chipmunk and the blue jay.  Here let me get them.  They also talk, you know.  They are very shy, unlike me.  I'm like that because my Mom was like that."  And with that she trotted away only to come back a minute later with her friends.  "Isabelle, this is chipmunk and blue jay.  Chipmunk and blue jay, this is Isabelle"  "Hello.  Nice to meet you."  "Good evening", the animals said shyly.  "It's okay guys" said Snowy.  "Tomorrow I proclaim we all share our activities with each other."  Anod so they did, waking up the next day bright and early and getting a lesson on how to catch worms and bugs.  Then they brought what the caught to blue jays family who squeeled in delight.  Then Isabelle learned to climb trees and gather nuts, which they brought to Chipmunk's family who were also very happy.  Snowy decided they would not like grass so they got an interesting lesson on the difference between girl and boy deer.  Last but not least Isabelle took them all to the swimming pool and taught every one except blue jay how to swim various strokes that included: backstroke, butterfly, and free style.  At the end of the day, Snowy let Chipmunk and Isabelle ride on her back while she followed bluejay who was flying on top of them, on a little tour of the park.  They all slept on a tree and woke up the next morning facing the time where Isabelle had to leave to Foster City.

Sewing

     Sewing

   I would like to own a sewing machine, but first I will tell you about my first day of camp couture          (a camp run by a 2nd place winner in Project Runway) and what I will do with my sewing machine.

Camp Couture

My first day at camp couture was AMAZING!

I made a name tag (my name stitched), two pillows, and a awesome bag! Here are the four rules of sewing: 

1.WATCH YOUR FINGERS

2.STOP IF YOUR MACHINE DOES NOT SOUND RIGHT

3.D,JVNDFKGHFBFGUHKUTHGTKRUHTFYGHJRU

4.GUHFGLOHCRO;GJHLITUTLHYUTU

I learned how to thread a bobbin, turn on the corners, and to make a purse you need to get stiffer fabric.

What to do

What I plan to do with my machine is:

1. make pets for my doll

2. make stuffies

3. make Christmas gifts

4. make matching clothing for my doll and me

5. be AWESOME

One of a Kind Tennis Ball

This year I watched Serena Williams win the semi-finals at the Bank of the West Classic, a women's tennis competition at Stanford.  Afterwards I waited in line for two hours and got four of the best women's tennis players to sign my tennis ball.  Along with my own signature, this ball is one of a kind.

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Isabelle Keilana Rugg

Age: 9
Height: 4' 11''
Weight: 71 lbs
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown

Isabelle goes to Audubon Elementary School in Foster City.  She plays softball, tennis, volleyball, and is working towards her black belt in Tae Kwon Do.  Hopefully she will get it early next year.  She is tall for her age, a lefty, and willing to put in the work to become good at all of these sports.

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Serena Jameka Williams

Age: 32
Height: 5' 9''
Weight: 150 lbs
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown

Serena is currently No. 1 in women's singles tennis. She is the only tennis player to have won over 50 million bucks in prize money. She also has a line of clothing with Nike (worth $40 million) and has her own line of designer clothing called "Aneres" as well as a line of handbags and jewelry.

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Mary Joe Fernández Godsick

Age: 42
Height: 5' 9''
Weight: 140 lbs
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown

Mary Joe won two Gold Medals and one Bronze Medal in the Olympics. One of the Gold Medals for doubles and the Bronze for singles was during the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, the same year that Isabelle's Tae Kwon Do instructor (Master Herb Perez) won his Gold Medal. She is a tennis commentator for ESPN and has coached the U.S. Fed Cup and U.S. Olympic tennis teams.

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Pamela Howard Shriver

Age: 52
Height: 6' 0''
Weight: 160 lbs
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown

Pam placed second at the 1978 US Open as a 16-year-old amateur (losing to Chris Evert). She is known more for playing doubles where she once had a 109 match winning streak between 1983 and 1985. She retired in 1996 and has been doing commentary for ABC, CBS, and ESPN.

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Christine Marie Evert

Age: 59
Height: 5' 6''
Weight: 126 lbs
Hair Color: Blonde
Eye Color:

Chris was the No. 1 women's singles tennis player for most of 1974-1981. She has the highest winning percentage of singles matches at just under 90%. On clay courts it is just under 95%. She runs a tennis academy, coaches a high school tennis team, writes for Tennis magazine, and is a tennis commentator for ESPN.

Marvelous Montana

                   

Marvelous Montana

Have you ever been to Montana? Well, I went there for a little vacation. If you go to Montana, which you should, you may need to know what to do and advice for those activities. For that reason I made this for you. 

White water rafting

1. If you fall out, keep your feet in front of you with your toes pointing up.

2. When any part of you is outside of the boat and you might hit a rock so pull your body inside.

3. When you are at the front of the boat, have one of your hands up, and have your legs sticking out, that is called RIDING THE BULL.

Camping

1. When lighting a fire, put newspaper, then small dry wood, then large dry wood in a tee-pee form.

2. When using anything to produce fire always light the newspaper and blow on the fire.

3. Please bring the following: pads for your hips while sleeping, sleeping bags, tents, jackets, and a lighter or matches.

Fishing

1. If it is sunny use a gold lure, if it is cloudy use a silver lure, if it is raining don't fish -- you'll get wet.

2. When you can't get fish, change directions, lures, or just fish later.

3. Just so you know, fish eat a lot in the morning and evening.

Horses

1. Keep Calm And Stay On!

2. Show the horse you are not scared of them and that YOU are boss.

3. Stay on the left side while doing anything with the saddle, talk to the horses while approaching and pat or rub their butt while walking closely around the horse.

4. While riding up hill or down hill stay parallel with the trees.

 

Birds

Some birds you may see that I saw are:

Bald Eagles

Ospreys

Turkey Vultures

Hawks and

Ducks

Thank you for reading Marvelous Montana. I hope you can visit Montana sometime, too!

Take Your Child To Work Day!

Take You Child To Work Day

Hello dear friends of mine! Today I will be telling you about Take Your Child To Work Day at Google. This is when Googlers/my dad can take their child/children to Google for a whole day!

Do you want to know what my dad and I did? Yes? Okay! First my dad and I went to his building and got some breakfast. Then we went to a mini children museum. We did many activities during the day, including making a Kazoo and bagpipe out of really weird materials.

Things I learned

1. If you don't break the water's surface tension, you can make a paper clip float!

2. When air vibrates really fast, it makes a noise.

3. If you put ice on a heat conductor, the ice will melt faster than ice on a heat insulator.

We also saw some presentations such as, google glass and cooking crepes.

Thank You for your time!

I hope you read my next article!

Laser Cutting

 Laser Cutting

         This weekend my dad and I went to have some fun laser cutting! 

One mode these laser cutters (LCs) use is called raster. When the LCs raster, they burn a design on the material much like a printer would. Another mode they can do is called vector. This means burning using lines as you would use if you were drawing the picture yourself.  Depending upon the power settings, this might mean burning all the way through the material.

There are two settings you can use, power and speed. These two settings may not seem to combine but they do. You see, they combine when you make the speed slower but the power the same. When you do this, the laser is more powerful. 

This may come as a surprise to you, but there is NOT one laser, there are two! If you are wondering what the other laser does, I'll tell you. The other laser does not cut the material, it shows what it is cutting by making a red dot!

How about I show you some things we made?

Here they are!

Some things we want to do in the future are creating flowers of every kind.

I also kind of want to raster a ice-cream cone with two scoops!

Do you have any good ideas?

If so please contact me or my dad because we are looking for good ideas!

That's all I got for you today, Peeps!

I hope you read my next post!

Robotics

Robotics

Robotics are fun to learn even though it is complicated and precise. This means you should not be upset if it does not come out correctly.  My dad and I went to Fry's electronics and bought a pricy robotics kit called  MINDSTORMS EV3.Even though you can make many robots out of this kit, you have to take apart the one you made to make another one (you can not make two at the same time). These may be boring but it is worth doing in the end because the finishing piece is fantastic! I hope you make some robots! Good luck if you are!

I think robots will be awesome once we design them to do cool stuff. they would be able to be like portable, walking, smart, flexible... 

BODYGUARDS!

Now that would be AMAZING!

They might transfer into a  car, plane, helicopter, or even a teleport/ portal!

Thanks for the audience!

Exploring Arches

I hear the wind whistling.
I see the amazing arches.
I smell the sand from the desert.
I feel the rocks as I'm climbing.
I taste the Utah desert culture.

Over President's Day Weekend, my Mom, Dad, and I went to Arches with some friends. If you go in February and the weather is nice, you will be able to see many cool arches without many people traveling at the same time as you. We flew into Salt Lake City and drove four hours to a city named Moab.  There are some more national parks around besides Arches.

I'll tell you how arches are made.

How Arches Are Made
by Isabelle Rugg

First, there is a big salt lake.  It dries up and gets filled again.  As this happens, salt gets all over the ground.  Layers of dirt and other things pile on top of it, making a solid rock ground above the salt.  As water goes through the rock, it hits the salt, making it expand.  As it expands, the rock above it rises and cracks.  It gets bigger and bigger until it becomes a fin.  Over time, water, wind and other stuff (rocks and plants), go through the fin making a hole.  These things (water, wind, rocks, and plants) keep making the hole bigger and bigger until it is an arch.  This is how arches are made.

Arches have an age limit like us too!  As water, wind, rocks, and plants keep on making the arch thinner, it starts to get old.  They will eventually fall down.  Many park rangers believe the whole process is done in about 20,000 years!

Well, that's it for now!  See you next time!

Six different languages

Today I realized that I know how to count to ten in six languages!  I will list them and then tell you why I know them and how you pronounce them.

1. English -- This one is obvious

2. German -- I know German because I lived there for a year.
  inse, svy, dri, fear, funf, zex, seben, act, noen, zen

3. Korean -- I know Korean because in Tae kwon do we have to count in Korean when we stretch.
  hana, doo, set, net, tasa, yasa, ilgo, yodo, aho, yo

4. Hawaiian -- I know Hawaiian because, like Tae kwon do, in Hula we count in Hawaiian when we stretch.
  ekahi, eluah, ekolu, eha, elima, eono, ehiku, evalu, eeva, umi

5. Tagalog -- I know Tagalog because I am half Filipino.
  esa, delewa, tatlo, apat, lema, anem, peto, walo, seam, sampo

6. Spanish -- I know Spanish because everybody knows Spanish!
  uno, does, thres, kuatro, sinco, seies, seete, ocho, neweve, dies


Languages are based on family groups. Here you can see the family groups of the languages I know.

• Austronesian
• Malayo-Polynesian
• Oceanic
• Polynesian
• Eastern Polynesian
• Marquesic
• Hawaiian
• Philippine
• Central Philippine
• Tagalog
• Altaic
• Koreanic
• Korean
• Indo-European
• Germanic
• West Germanic
• High German
• German
• Ingvaeonic
• Anglo-Frisian
• Anglic
• English
• Romance
• Western Romance
• Ibero-Romance
• West-Iberian
• Castillian languages
• Spanish

Some random thoughts on these languages:

• As you can tell, German is similar (kind of) to English.
• You may not of noticed, but 1-9 in Hawaiian all start with the -ea sound.
• English is spoken differently in different countries (England: queue and the US: line). But even in the US people speak English differently. Here is a website you can try out: dialect quiz.  When I took the quiz, based on my answers, it knew I grew up in California.
• Korea uses a different alphabet.
• There is a game named after uno(one).
• Some of my family members (such as my grandma) still speak Tagalog even though they live in the US.

Things I learned in Montana about guns

Things I learned about guns:

• When someone hands you a gun, make sure there are no bullets in it (even if they tell you there aren't any).
• Never point the gun at anybody even if there are NOT any bullets in it.
• For the safety -- F or a red circle means that if you pull the trigger it will shoot a bullet.  White or green means that you can't pull the trigger (it's locked).  Even then, don't point the gun at any one.
• Never shoot into the sky because you never know where it will land.
• Handle bullets with care even if they are not in a gun.
• Always know what is behind your target as well.
• Never shoot at anything that may ricochet the bullet.
• Shotgun shells have a bunch of small bullets instead of a single bullet like a rifle shell does.

Thank you Uncle Korey and Dad for teaching me about guns!