Glider Challenge Deliverables

Design:

• decided on basic body shape


• did measurements of woods to make scale


• decided how long we wanted wing span based off of how far the wins could go without bending


• sketched a few possible ideas

Building:

• Day one: built basic body and glued wings together


• Day two: glued wings on body


• Day three: rebuilt broken wings


• Day four: rebuilt more durable wings


• Day five: laid on tissue paper

Flight Day:

• terrible flight time


• 2nd distance flight after a throw off

Improvements needed:

• stronger woings because ours broke every day of building


• put on a nose weight after first test flight

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Cheaper Robots

Significance:

• factories that use robots can buy them cheaper
• if bought cheaper more will be bought
• with more bought, mass production becomes easier
• more mass production=cheaper products
• cheaper products=more items bought
• economy will go up if more objects are bought

Ted Part 1

1) What is the TED organization about?

• technology topics told using entertainment

2) What is the purpose of their website and how does the functionality of their site support that?

• Purpose is to tell people about new technological advancements
• do it with entertainment, ie, comedy
• yes done very well

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.

• Technology
• we are in an engineering course
• Engineers improve technology for greater good of people

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.

• Amber Case: We are all Cyborgs Now-talks about how people use electronics for everything-overuse of tech
• Bertrand Piccard's solar powered adventure-using solar airplane to go around world-new technology
• Eben Bayer-are mushrooms the new plastic-new technology to change the world

5)

• plastics take a lot of energy to make
• do not decompose easily
• mushrooms make a glue like material
• if left in case will mold together
• decomposes easily
• just as strong as Styrofoam
• only uses energy from mushrooms

6) 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 get involved by only using organic plastics
• I don't know what I would need to learn, but Biology would seem important because I would need to know a lot about composition of mushrooms or any other plant used to make plastics

Robopro 1st activity

• when one of the variables gets changed, all with same name get changed
• do not need to be connected
  
  

l (distance) = m
t (time) = s
m (mass) = kg
a (area) = m^2
v (velocity) = m/s
(density) = kg/m^3
g (gravity) = m/s^2
F (force) = kg*m/s^2
E (energy) = (kg*m^2)/s^2
P (power) = (kg*m^2)/s^3

Content is King

My field-aerospace engineering(helicopters)

Example of blog:
http://www.sae.org/mags/aem/power/news

• talk about new innovations with their company-SAE International

Fields I see me blogging about:

• New inventions



• step by step on the project I'm working on



• Pictures of my projects

Importance of branches:

• Decision making for program
• Can do more when can decide because it can branch off because of different scenarios

Normally open switch examples:

• flashlight-the circuit is always open until switch is pressed which closes the circuit and the light turns on

Normally closed switch examples:

• Anything with an emergency off button-it runs until the button is pressed which opens the circuit and turns it off

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Commands for the potentiameter and lamp.

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Picture of potentiometer and lamp.

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The commands for the mini switch and lamp.

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Using the mini switch with a lamp.

Flowchart Problem 1

This is the first of two flowcharts for the flowcharting activity. We're using this as a class example!

Inputs and outputs

Mini Switch:

-when plugged into 1 and 3 and not pressing button:

unchecked

at zero

not present

-when in 1 and 3 and pressed

checked

at one

present

-when plugged into 1 and 2 everything is flip-flopped

Potentiometer:

-range: 38-4945

NTC Resistor:

-1668

-while warm was at 1318

Motor:

-one way to change the direction of spin is by switching the wire ports

Electromagnet:

When reed switch is touched the box becomes checked

Photo transistor:

-closer light gets the number goes down

This activity was a lot of fun and I learned how to do a lot of things I did not know before I did it.

Survival At Sea

In this activity we were put into small groups to negotiate of what we thought was most important to survival.

My personal top 2 were:
-Water because it is essential
-Food because it is also essential

My bottom 2 were:
-Shaving mirror because I didn't see its purpose and rum for the same reason

My team agreed with me on top priority because we all thought water was the most important because of the necesity to life. Most things we agreed on were no where near to mine because I thought more realistically than anyone else and I was more accurate although my group thought I was crazy.

Compared to the expert choices our team was not very accurate but my personal choices like rations and masquito netting were only one off. I did not get one spot on though.

I did have fun with my group because I would alsways threaten to kill everyone of them so I could have their resources and use their bodies as fuel for a fire. Overall this activity was a highly enjoyable activity becasue how our group reacted to eachother.

Tennis ball activity

Let me start off with the fact against what the other team says our team won. Also the other team cheated. We had to pass a tennisball around the circle before the other team. The point of this challenge was to use team work to make a solution that would work the best. We all contributed ideas and then used them to make the best ideas.

Our team used the idea to put our hands right next to eachother and just angled our hands so that the ball would just roll off and land an the other persons. Our plan worked perfectly and was flawless after a little bit of practice. I would do almost everything the same except would have seperated the teams so that both teams would come up with their own ideas not the other team cheating off of our supreme ideas.

Overall I enjoyed this activity because it was fun and not stressful like the worksheets from Project lead the Way.