Explore The Field

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Huntington: How does remote actually work? How does it affect the person with Huntington’s disease hand to click the right button?

I decided to have this question because I’m curious to explore how Huntington’s disease affect someone’s hand or other parts.. I think my question might also help us how we could make the remote if we know how it works and knw what to do or change on the remotes buttons and if we know the reason or how it affects the person’s hand to click the right button on remote .

What is a Huntington disease?

  •  it is a progressive brain disorder that could cause emotional problems, loss of thinking ability and uncontrolled movements.. usually people in thirties or forties has it.

How does Huntington’s disease affect body?

  • Base on what I have searched the thing called chorea and the other is Dystonia. Chorea, it tends to affect head, face, legs or arms. Have uncontrolled flinging of arm or leg. You may drop things easily. Dystonia, this can lead to abnormal posture, twisting movements, or repetetive moments.

               

What is the cause of Huntington’s disease?

  • Huntington disease is caused by an inherited defect in a single gene. It is an autosomal dominant disorder, which means the person with one defective gene develop the disorder. A person inherits two copies of every gene, one copy from each parent. Defective copy from one parent could pass along the defective copy or the healthy copy. Therefore, each child in the family has 50% chance of inheriting the gene that cause genetic disorder.

 

 

  • First, knowing Tim having problem on his arms made me curious about Huntington’s disease and how it affects the person. So, I searched about Huntington disease. I searched what Huntington’s disease first and more. I also found out that maybe Tim have chorea that affects his hand and other parts. Have some memory loss forgetting things colour. I also found out how we could help Tim on a remote.

 

  • A remote uses lights to carry signals from the remote to the device it controls. It releases invisible infrared light that agree to specific binary codes. Based on what I’ve researched a person with Huntington’s disease usually causes movement cognitive and psychiatric disorders with wide spectrum of signs and symptoms. Some disorders have greater effect on functional ability. one of those is Tim having uncontrolled movements and maybe memory loss.

My critical questions

  • how do we connect remote to the tv?
  • how does Huntington’s disease affects the body?
  • what is Huntington’s disease?
  • how could we make the remote?

 

  • I used Tinkercad for the first time on this project. it made me confused at first but it’s good and creative. I would like to explore more on Tinkercad to really understand how to use it.
  • I look for a lot cites to see if they have the same information and cites that from medicals cites.

What is Huntington’s disease?https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/huntington-disease

How does Huntington’s disease affects the body?https://patient.info/brain-nerves/huntingtons-disease-leaflet

What is the cause of Huntington’s disease?https://patient.info/brain-nerves/huntingtons-disease-leaflet

How does remote work?https://www.wonderopolis.org/wonder/how-does-a-remote-control-work

It is a little bit hard for me but glad to learn a lot from what I’ve researched, it help me understand more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prediction

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the fruit I chose for prediction is orange because of its acid that might give an electric energy.

 

when we did the experiment we had a voltmeter and fruits/vegetables like onion, lemon, apple, potato.

       

I also observed that the sour fruit produced a lot of electric voltage and the one like apple didn’t really had lot of electric voltage.

Electricity Mind Map

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electricity questions:

How is electricity use?

what is electricity made of?

how does electricity works?

how is electricity made?

why is our body sometimes spark when touching someone?

when did electricity started being used in homes?

 

adaptive tech science

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On September 24th we talked to Tim Mephams who have huntington disease that we are going to help and his daughter Nicola, they were in Nicola Lodge. In Every group someone will ask a question to him and we’ve learned a lot from Mr. Tim and made us think some ideas on how to help him and knew that one of his problem is when he stand he need to hold on something hard so he won’t fall and remote like on his computer when he click and he love to draw. We saw some of his drawing and it is so nice. At first it is kind of awkward but then when the call get longer I felt comfortable and happy for being able to help him after. when they said about the remote I’d like to help him make a remote to help him click the right number or whatsoever like on his laptop but then I thought about the finger pen holder because he loves to draw. The one I focus on is the finger pen holder maybe it would help him on drawing and think maybe it will be a good idea because he love to draw. Maybe my mom and dad could help me with it. First I need to know the size of his finger so it will fit and the sizes of brushes and anything needed for painting. I’m still looking for the steps on how to make it because I can’t find any.

 

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Safety Story

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One day in science class… Students were told that they will have to dissect but first they had to choose which should they dissect a mouse or frog and they chose frog. After they found a group they went to the lab and saw some signs.

Harmful – careful with sharp things or something that can harm you inside the lab.

Health Hazard- for some thing that might affect their health

Before they started dissecting they should wear some safety equipment first like safety goggles to protect their eyes, gloves for some dirty stuff and maybe to protect them from cutting their hand and an apron so their clothes won’t be dirty if something splashed from what they are dissecting. One of the students noticed that two of her classmates wasn’t wearing safety goggles and gloves so she told them to wear it but they refused and said they are careful and will make sure that they won’t cut their hands and splashed something from what they are dissecting to their eyes. When they started dissecting all groups were serious and careful except of group 4 which is the two girls who didn’t wear a safety goggles and gloves group, they were having  fun when someone screamed because of pain it was the girl who didn’t put gloves, she accidentally cut her hand. The teacher immediately went close to her to cure the wound. After a minute someone screamed again and it was the other girl who didn’t wear safety goggles something from what they are dissecting splashed into her eyes. Someone went to her and looked at the map to find where the eyewash station was. It was somewhere outside the room at the left.

The girl was sitting and stopping the bleeding of her hand and the other one went to the eyewash station. Other students finished it without any problem because they listened to what was the instruction given to them by the teacher before they started  dissecting.