My project has been working on creating a level of Beat Saber for the song Way Less Sad by AJR. This project has showcased my skills by showing what I have learned how to do in beat mapper towards the end of the year. I have done many other projects throughout the year in here but I started doing beat mapper in the 4th quarter.
https://beatmapper.app/docs/manual/getting-started
Above is a link to the beat mapper guide that I used when I was getting started on creating my song. The project has gone really well, some successes include completing the first 2 minutes of the song and picking up on how to place the blocks relatively easily. Some of the more difficult parts or failures of the project include the first song that I worked on and accidentally deleted because I didn’t know it had to be saved, and screen recording my final video. It was difficult to screen record because I couldn’t get the volume to work at first but after I switched to a different app, I was able to make it work. If I had time I would continue this project to complete the whole song, I have completed about 2/3’s but it is very time-consuming and is hard to make a whole song in a short period of time.
I have really enjoyed my time in Science For Inventors, in the beginning of the year with all of the substitute teachers I was a little hesitant, but once we got a long-term sub and got our teacher back the class was really good. At the beginning of the year when Mr. Thocker was here, I mainly focused on 3D printing and tinkercad. I really enjoyed that part of the year but also enjoyed it later on when we got to do more structured projects. Then later on in the year, I started doing more work on the computer, using Unity and Beat Mapper which I also thought was really fun. One thing that I would change about this class is to have more structured projects. I like the flexibility with what we can do but I would like to have a more specific end goal with our projects. Overall, Science For Inventors has been one of my favorite classes this year and I would definitely recommend it to a friend.