Machine Control Capstone Project

Achievements:

Marble Sorting (some achievments scored multiple times):Sort one marble (x1)
Sort two marbles (x1)
Sort three marbles (x1)
Sort four marbles (x1)
Sort four marbles (x2)
Sort five marbles (x1)
Sort five marbles (x2)
Sort five marbles (x3)
Systems (not including motor or piston used to charge your pressure vessel):Use one motor

Total: 9 out of 12 We were unable to use a valve because we were one short, so we used all motors.

Pictures:
1. Close up of the four motors that push the glass marbles.
2. Final project with Ryan in the background.
3. Unfinished project.
4. Program we used in RoboPro for our marble sorter.

Robo Pro Variables

Today we learned how to create programs on the ROBO Pro software that involve branches and variables. The variable tool is very helpful.

My program above turns on a light for 2 seconds.  This program keeps repeating until it happens 5 times total. The variable tool helped to get rid of unnecessary lines that made the flowchart messy.

Eng Program Investigation

http://ceng.calpoly.edu/

1)College/University of interest:
 - Cal Poly

2)Why does this institution appeal to you?:
 - I really like the campus, and location of the school. I also know that the school has a very good engineering department.

3)Which engineering program is most interesting to you and why?:
 - Aerospace engineering most interest me because since i was litte I jave always enjoyed learning about flying and airplanes. My family is full of engineers, my dad is a nuclear engineer, my aunt is a material engineer, and my uncle is a civil engineer.

4)Which undergraduate engineering elective is most interesting? Describe the course and its appeal to you:
 - The engineering elective of my choice would be again, aerospace engineering, like  I said before. Iwould also really enjoy taking other engineering courses, such as material and mechanical engineering.

Glider Challenge: Design Phase

Done with andoni

Glider Challenge: Design Phase

Our final design is the white and blue hanglider second from the far left.

2. 1) What's the challenge? The challenge is to build an efficient glider given the materials of some balsa wood, glue, and tissue paper.
2) Brainstorm solutions:
-What are the rules of brainstorming? (oxymoron) I'd say there are no rules to brainstorming; the only thing that would even come close to being a rule would be "nothing rediculous", but that would defeat the purpose of brainstorming, as brainstorming is listing anything and everything that comes to mind when confronting a problem.-List your ideas Hanglider, stealth bomber design, airplane design-Sketch at least two of them
3) Specify:
-Criteria Has to be able to fly, has to have wings, should be designed to achieve the most hangtime and distance, should be somewhat accurate
-Constraints (be specific about materials available) Only given a few materials, I don't know the exact amount of materials, but I could guess that we got about 3-4 square feet of tissue paper, and maybe a total of 1.5 meters of balsa wood, weight, must be hand thrown4) Develop Solutions:
-Sketch (with labels)

Bonus) Prototype with PaperWe made a prototype with the yellow plastic arms from the robo kits (picture of the prototype is included in my previous glider blog post).

3. As far as results go, our glider did pretty well despite our terrible and fatal test runs. We finished 3rd in distance and 1st in hangtime. If we did this again, I think we would defnitely change the wing size, as the stregnth of the balsa wood was not enough to support the massive wing size, and other groups with more of an airplane approach with smaller, more rigid wings seemed to work better than ours

woked with Andoni

Glider Blog

Glider Challenge

Before you're ready to "compete" with your glider, you probably want to try your design out and see how it goes. Use this format for collecting notes.

What did you learn from your test flight?We learned that our wings were too big and that the balsa wood frame was not as sturdy as we thought, and not nearly sturdy enough to support the size of the wings.

What are your goals for your glider and how will you adjust your design in order to help it better meet them? We will try to fix the glider, but I'm not sure that it will work seeing as almost the whole frame is broken in several places. Definitely going to be a hard fix if it's even possible.Here is an extensive gallery of pictures that were taken during the construction of our project:

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We just tested our gliders today (April 8). Turns out, we actually did pretty well, we got first place in hangtime and third place in distance, which of course is much higher than I had ever imagined for our design, given how much it failed when we tested it last time.

worked with andoni

Egg Drop Challenge - Iteration #1"


2) At the top of your post list the following:
"Total # of Achievements Earned: 22


3) Post an image of your Egg Drop solution.


4) Justify (list and explain) your Achievemtns. Use images as appropriate. For organization's sake, use the categories provided in the Egg Drop Achievement List.
Idea Generation Achievements

Brainstorming
-Create a sketch of one possible solution. Include labels.
-Create a sketch of another possible solution. Include labels.
-Create a sketch of a third possible solution. Include labels.
-use a descision matrix



Descion Matrix



sketches

Material Prep
-Generate a list of materials required for build day.
-Document a plan to ensure materials are brought in on block day.



list of materials

 Material Size:
(your egg is not included in the material size)
(air is ubiquitous and not included in material size. "Rare" commodities like helium are.)

-Your materials fit inside a printer paper box

-Your materials fit inside a shoe box

Material Weight:
(your egg is not included in material weight)
-Your materials weigh less than 500 grams.
-Your materials weigh less than 300 grams.
-Your materials weigh less than 200 grams.
-Your materials weigh less than 150 grams.
-Your materials weigh less than 100 grams.
We had a very light desugn that helped us gain 5 easy points

Drop Achievements

Drop Accuracy:
-You hit the butcher paper!
-You hit inside the third ring!

Egg Resilience:
-Your egg broke but the yolk remained intact.
-Your egg cracked but the yolk stayed inside and intact.
-Your egg cracked but was still together.
-Your egg didn't break in any way! (awarded three times)
-Your egg didn't break in any way! (awarded three times)
-Your egg didn't break in any way! (awarded three times)
Other Achievements
-Help set up the Bullseye.
-Design an Achievement Mr. Olson approves for next year's Egg Drop Challenge.


5) What designs from your class did well? Based on the achievements you earned, how would you redesign your solution to score better? Be specific (sketches with labeling work well for this). Joe's design did very well, the eggo was logged inside a noodle, acting as a capsul. He also used a paraschute in order to slow the design down enough. If I had a chance to redesign mine, I think i would have tried to bring the weight down to under 50 lbs.

1) What is the TED organization about?
TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading
2) What is the purpose of their website and how does the functionality of their site support that?
To spread ideas and bring people together from the technological, engineering and design backgrounds
3) As Engineers and Problem Solvers, which topic areas (the choices from the "Show talks related to:" section on the sidebar) are of most interest to us? Justify your answer.
I really like the ones on enigineering. I chose the Engineerinmg disaster in Haiti video.
4) Based on your previous answer, what are 3 talks (videos) on the site that appear like they would be of most interest to you as an Engineer/Problem Solver? Justify your choices.

5) How could you get involved in the field/technology/issue you chose to hear about? What experience/skills/training/education would you need to learn to get involved with this field?
I could compare building codes in Japan and Chile to the Haitian laws.