Week 9 Outside Meeting

Mechanical Group:

Today we went to the machine shop and made some serious progress. Along with the help from the machine shop crew, we built a base for the wheel to sit in made of a wooden block donated by the shop, mounted the k'NEX base by drilling holes and holding it with zip ties, and attached the lego piece to the generator shaft by using a mold and screw. 

Here are some pictures of our progress:

The base mounted with zip ties

Close up of the base mounted with zip ties

Sarah posing with the tool used to drill the hole for the bike base

View of the whole thing!

In-Class To Do:

• Glue in wheel
• Attach generator to base
• Set up belt

Electrical Group:

In-Class To Do:

• Set up the breadboard with wires and all the pieces
• Continue needed calculations
• Solder etc.
• Draw up how to attach the electronics and LEDs

Together:

Need to work on the presentation and the final paper (due next week)

The presentation will be in LeBow 240 in the Hill Conference Room

Final Paper:

• Correct the errors and tweak until up to date (Jacque)
• Circuitry update (Courtney & Jess)
• Research corrections (Courtney)

Presentation:

• 10 minute speech with 2 minute question-answer session
• Upload slides to include:

• Title Slide (Sarah)
• Presentation Outline (2nd slide) (Sarah)
• Paper in slide form (All of us with)
• Introduction (Sarah)
• Project Objective (Sarah)
• Project goals and timelines (Sarah)
• Project budget (Sarah)
• Preexisting waterwheel and surrounding exhibit (Sarah)
• Research (Courtney)
• Overall design (Jacque)
• Calculations (Jacque)
• Mechanical & Electrical design (Courtney & Jess)
• Results (Megan)
• Future work (Megan)
• Question Slide (Sarah)
• References Slide (Courtney)

We set up a GooglePowerPoint so we each can contribute to the presentation and make modifications without having to convert from Mac to PC.