Here is my picture to the final idea.
At first I tried to automate and mechanize, but the engineering gnome wasn't with me.
Here is some data that I acquired to show my abilities with this ping pong launcher.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Egg Drop Challenge - Iteration #1
Total Achievements earned : 12
Achievement Justification
Three sketches - Pictures don't lie
Generate list of materials - Our material list included, rubber bands, pipe cleaners, and Styrofoam. Our bonus material was the robotics ball as an exoskeleton.
Materials fit in a printer paper box - No picture but the final project did fit in there.
Material weight - Our materials weigh less than 300 grams. The actual "weight" was 254 grams.
Accuracy - We hit inside the bull's eye! We are the best around.
The design that seemed to work the best was to encase the egg in Styrofoam. Every group that did that had their egg survive. So I would keep our design the same, but instead of having pipe cleaners hold the egg, I would have a Styrofoam block hold it.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Glider Challenge
Design Phase
1. The challenge is to build a glider that flies for longer and goes a further distance than other gliders.
2. The only rule of brainstorming is that their is no rules.
a. First idea would be to make the glider completely one wing, like a hang glider.
b. Second idea would be to make the glider more like an airplane, with some empty space between "wings".
3. The criteria includes created an aircraft to fly for a certain amount of time and distance longer than other gliders. Also, the materials are limited to a few sticks of balsa wood and tissue paper. You may use any adhesive to attach the materials to each other.
4. Sketch solutions
5. The airplane proto-prototype was the best out of the rest of the paper air planes.
Testing.
1. +: Fly far, stay aloft long
Delta: Our glider basically nose dived and broke part of itself.
?: Can we fix it? What went wrong?
"Light Bulb!": The wind was blowing into our glider. If we change our position, our glider would fly further!
2. My goal for the glider was to smoke and defeat all the other gliders!!! Our design was not adjusted, but the launch method was. The way we threw the glider and our position in the wind changed for the better. This would maximize the distance and time our glider flies.
1. The challenge is to build a glider that flies for longer and goes a further distance than other gliders.
2. The only rule of brainstorming is that their is no rules.
a. First idea would be to make the glider completely one wing, like a hang glider.
b. Second idea would be to make the glider more like an airplane, with some empty space between "wings".
3. The criteria includes created an aircraft to fly for a certain amount of time and distance longer than other gliders. Also, the materials are limited to a few sticks of balsa wood and tissue paper. You may use any adhesive to attach the materials to each other.
4. Sketch solutions
5. The airplane proto-prototype was the best out of the rest of the paper air planes.
Testing.
1. +: Fly far, stay aloft long
Delta: Our glider basically nose dived and broke part of itself.
?: Can we fix it? What went wrong?
"Light Bulb!": The wind was blowing into our glider. If we change our position, our glider would fly further!
2. My goal for the glider was to smoke and defeat all the other gliders!!! Our design was not adjusted, but the launch method was. The way we threw the glider and our position in the wind changed for the better. This would maximize the distance and time our glider flies.
Competition results:
Our glider won and crushed all the other gliders. The only thing that I would change was that our plane would the miss the tree instead of getting stuck in it. Meh.
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