The morning presenter on woodworking was very inspiring. I am currently working on improving my own woodworking skills, learning how to use circular saws, drills, etc., so it was great to see that woodworking 101 was being taught in her elementary school. Unfortunately we eliminated our shop program at our school, and I think actually got rid of all the tools. I'd be interested in seeing if I could do a project or two with some classes.
The first workshop I participated in was Tinker Cad and 3D printing. These projects below are what that I created. I had worked in Tinker Cad a little last year, so I had remembered some parts to it, but it was to have a refresher and I learned some neat new tips and tricks.
Name Tag
Chicken egg creature
The afternoon I participated in e-textiles. Yesterday I had done the introduction workshop to circuits, and today I go to expand my learning and apply it to e-textiles. I felt I was quickly able to apply the previous days learning and really start to understand how e-textiles work.
This picture show the ideate/ first prototype phase. I made sure I fully understood how parallel circuits work, the decided on something that I could practice sewing the circuits.
I decided to try lighting up a butterfly I drew. You can see in the picture that the left light isn't on, but if you look at the wiring below everything correct. After asking for some help on why this was happening, I learned that different color LEDs pull different power and can effect each other. I had run the yellow light with the red- I wanted them to blink the same, but the red overwhelmed the yellow and didn't allow it to work. I have officially decided that I am going to design a Tinkerbell skirt and a program motion sensor, so that the skirt responds to movement. Tomorrow, if possible I liked to learn how to do the programming part. 
I finished my butterfly at home and got the 4th LED to finally light up, although it's not quite as bright as the others.
Questions for tomorrow-
It seems that Adafruit is out of the green sequins LED, can I use a white one that I can program to green?
I'd like my lights to respond to movement, do I need the Flora Motion Sensor, or can I use a Lily Pad?
Will a lithium ion polymer batter- 3.7v 150mAh be enough to run my lights?
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