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Today, we gathered our research together. On Monday, we plan to brainstorm some more and make outlines. Research so far: [] [] []
 * Friday, May 8th 2009**
 * Sukis Post:**

(PICTURE WAS DELETED) On the far right, you will see the housing for the whole lens. Next to it is the adapter that we will use for optical zoom with the Fisheye. The shortest white pipe-looking thing is to put into the housing so that the optical zoom-tool will fit! The two things in the plastic baggies are the door viewers, and you can see Suki holding up its packaging near the table. And finally, obviously there is a glue gun.

Today, our goal is to atleast assemble the lens to its housing. We hope to also make the housing for the whole thing so that it will fit on a digital camera, but we do not know if we will have time to do that. When we tried to fit the housing of the whole fisheye onto the camera's original lens, it seemed very far away. we think that this is because the housing is so long, so we are going to try to find the time to go to the art room and saw it in half today. If we can't do that today, then we will definitely do that tomorrow (Friday).

Today, the group's goal is to organize who brings what materials. Garrett and Jalen forgot some materials, so the group cannot make any part of the macro-lens (our next lens on our agenda) until they bring their assigned materials. Our macro-lens consists of a biconvex lens (like the lens of a pair of binoculars), film capsule caps, and more housing; the same kind that we used for our previous lens. For the housing, we will probably use another 3/4 pipe and glue the lens to the housing. The biconvex lens fits perfectly into the groove of the film capsule cap. We will use an exacto knife to cut out the center of the cap, which will most likely be a supervised action by a teacher or guardian. Here is the research that we got for our upcoming macro-lens: [|Click Here!] ( If link does not work: [] ) As you can see, it seems pretty simple, but it actually takes a lot of precision. Once we build the housing for the macro-lens, we will update our Wiki with pictures and/or video. Thank you, Suki, E6G1
 * Monday, May 18th, 2009 Suki's Post:**

Over the course of this week, we intend to build our second lens (macro-lens)' housing and work out the 'kinks' of our fisheye lens. It was not secured strong enough with the glue because we attached the lens to the housing too late (the glue had basically already dried). We //also// need to get a larger housing for our fisheye lens, because it is too small to fit around the digital camera's extractable lens. I (Suki) am going to bring that on Thursday. We were supposed to start building our macro-lens today (lens #2), but Jalen and Garrett forgot their materials, so consequently, on Thursday, we will just work fast and try to catch up with the timeline. We want to learn how to make the different lenses adaptable to many things, like MacBook webcams, digital cameras, and maybe even professional film cameras! I think that my group members could try to focus a lot more, but in terms of following the timeline, we're as close as possible to being on track as we can be (in the situation). I wish that my personal workload could be lifted a little bit, but as my learning community might have observed already, my group members need a lot of assistance to stay on track, and sometimes they just won't listen. Here is a picture of Jalen and Garrett working on our fisheye lens: **
 * Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 Suki's Post:


 * Tuesday, May 26, 2009 Jalen's Post**

Today me and meso are working on making different types of lenses and looking at diff types. We have the matierals to build the other lenses but we just have to brainstorm and sort out ideas for the lenses. we are thinking of putting the two large convex lenses together, which should give us a very good magnification. So here iswhat our two lenses look like. One of them have like a close up view on it so when you are takeing a picutre up close. and the other one looks like a far away view kinda....


 * thursday may 28, 2009 Garrett's Post**

on tuesday we decided that the bigger lenses were clearer and gave us a better picture. we are going to hot glue them together today. we need more housing, and more adapters. we can improve on staying on task. we can improve on getting materials in on time. we ran out of hot glue when we were gluing the lenses together. i researched the idea to put the two giant convex lenses together to make the macro lens. we took pictures without the macro lens and no magnification, with the lens and no magnification, with the lens and magnification in order to see which one gave us the best result.the below is with macro lens, no magnification.

Together garrett and I Are reglueing the lenses because some of the ends are falling off. The glue parts. So meso and i re-glued the sides that were falling off. I think we have to much glue on it. And now we kinda of have glue inside the lens.
 * Friday, May 29 2009 ( Jalen's / Garrett's)**

Today, Jalen and I are here but Garret is absent. We were going to put the housing on the Macro, but Garrett isn't here and Jalen forgot his materials, so we have to delay the finishing of our MAKE project until Thursday. After that, we are going to make our PowerPoint Presentation so we can present our project to the class on Friday! We are basically done with our MAKE project, and initially we are happy with our results. We will post again on Thursday and document how we feel that our project turned out in the end. Thank you!
 * Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 (Suki's Post)**