Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Wacky Wednesday Wearable Sleeping bag

The wearable sleeping bad is just what is seems, a Snuggy for sleeping bags. You have a hood, three pockets, areas for you arms and re-sizable leg bottoms. this is practically a snuggy for camping and I thought is was funny. But i think it is completely absurd that is goes for 136$.

Monday, September 26, 2016

Monday Marvel - USB OTG Cable

The USB OTG Cable is one of my favorite cables ever. It is so good, and it allows me to do some amazing stuff. A simple minded person would use it to use a USB flash drive on their phone. But I would use it on my tablet and and download Moonlight, which is a program to emulate the Nvidia Shield tablet and use the OTG Cable to plug in a Xbox one controller and steam games to my tablet.

Friday, September 23, 2016

Friday Failure - Wire World 1,000$ HDMI Cable

The WireWorld Platinum Starlight 7 is a HDMI cable that boasts quality for the price of over 1,000$. The use of high quality metals in the wire and they assume that it will be better. although when compared to a Stander HDMI cable, there was no visible difference. The only difference with the wires is the 2% extra conductivity that will do nothing to help you. The cable is also only 3ft long, so this just makes for a terrible product
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Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Wacky Wednesday - Makey Makey

For Today's Wacky product, We have the Makey Makey. Makey Makey is a PCB with places to clip alligator clips and you would clip the other end of the alligator clip to and object. Then you would have and alligator clip on the ground port and then hook that to your body. This makes it so when you touch the object with the alligator clip on it, It creates a full circuit. The Makey Makey would then be plugged into a computer and what ever circuit was completed it will preform that action on the computer. For an example, if you hook the alligators clips to Left mouse button and a banana, when you touch the banana, it will left click on the computer. The back side of the PCB is more advanced so this together you can create playing a game using Play-Doh or lots of other things.

http://makeymakey.com/

Monday, September 19, 2016

Project - Beach Ball - Bkubiak

Project - Beach Ball


https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/121779552/

Rubric
Set the "stage" as an image of a beach. [10/10]
Create a "Sprite" of a beach ball with 4 different costumes. [10/10]
Label each costume. [5/5]
Make the ball start on the left side of the beach and move to the right. [10/10]
Make it move 1/3 of the way and change costumes. [10/10]
Repeat this 2 more times until it is on the right side. [10/10]
Make it move back to the left side while in his last costume. [10/10]
Make it start over and repeat the whole program 4 times. [10/10]
Add a sound as it changes each costume and moves. [10/10]
Share your presentation (program) on your blog. [5/5]
You will create a blog post with a link to your project on your blog You will need to create a Scratch account to upload your project to Scratch Include at least 5 sentences in your blog post about what you thought about the project [5/5]
Self Evaluate. [5/5]
Include this rubric in your blog post with your link. Replace the x's with what you think you earned.

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Khan Academy - Quiz 2

Ben K [10/10]
Math [10/10]
Intro to Addition [10/10]
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/early-math/cc-early-math-add-sub-basics/cc-early-math-add-sub-intro/v/addition-introduction [10/10]
I learn that the amount of objects to take a put together will increase the number total, This is addition [10/10]
Intro to Substraction [10/10]
It was next to the First video [10/10]
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/early-math/cc-early-math-add-sub-basics/cc-early-math-add-sub-intro/v/subtraction-introduction [10/10]
If you take away objects from a total of objects you get a number smaller than the original group, This is Subtraction. [10/10]
Self-evaluate. Replace the xx's [10/10]
Your total score = 100/100

Monday, September 12, 2016

This is cool #1




This is cool, This product is called the cooper cooler. This product Cools beverages in less then a sixty seconds. You put cold water and a tray of ice in the bottom area, and then you put the bottle, or can on the metal bar and it spins while pouring water on top. This makes it so that all the warm water will mover to the edge and cool the drink faster. This also does not shake the can making it loose its fizz. 






Friday, September 9, 2016

Views on Nvidia's GTX 1060 Missing the SLI Port

ently with VR being on rise, So has the computing power available for it. With AMD starting off with the powerful and affordable cards, Nvidia has created the GTX 10 series. The first of the two, The 1080 and 1070, Providing massive performance for the price. The third card of the 10 series the GTX 1060. This offer a better price for a lower performance. But here is the problem. SLI, Scalable Link Interface, has been included on cards for a while now. Allowing you to run two identical cards in order to share the workload make processes faster. New SLI bridging ports came out called High Bandwidth SLI. With the 1060 there was no SLI port. The reason being that two 1060 in SLI would out perform the 1080 with HALF the price of a 1080. I believe that this is a fail because, Nvidia is just making the customers angry, and i believe they would make more money if they kept it on.






*Above GTX 1060
*Below GTX 1080