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Connors notebook


8/19/14
We tested our bridge today and it worked beautifully, we were able to hold up to 5x our bridge's weight as a plus we only used 20 pcs of spaghetti in the final bridge! which was the original criteria we had to follow in the original set of rules. which make me happy because if we went with the old rules, our team might have won. But we still got 3rd place so the way i see it we didn't lose either. wednesday challenge spaghetti

9/8/14
Last friday we presented ideas about the jpl invention challenge. we only got to get through 2,but we also got to learn more about Mr. Wilton.


9/15/14
Last week our group, which consists of Daniel,Gaby,Adrian, And myself, was capable of coming up with a design as well as seperating it into stages. The main idea was to get method A and method B out of the way so we could focus on C. For method A, we Are going to make essentially a pinball shooter which is spring loaded, to shoot the ball into method B. method B is simply a ramp that the ball rolls down. A&B together will have a combined time of roughly 10 seconds. method C is up for debate as of now. we haven't agreed on anything yet however we think we want to go with using a conveyor belt to transport the ball. The conveyor belt will be operated by a strong electric motor and an arduino. The arduino's purpose is to start a timer as soon as the machine is started,the machine will have a sensor at the end of Method B and marks the time elapsed and adjusts the speed of the motor so that the ball will stop at exactly 20 meters, triggering either a smoke detector beeper or a low pressure air horn which can be activated by a air duster can.

9/18/14
last wednesday's challenge consisted of building the highest possible card tower, the catch is that the hight and amount of cards should be calculated and accurate.

9/24/14
For the wednesday challenge, we worked on the jpl invention challenge

9/26/14
Mr.Wilton came to take a look at our progress, and to discuss ideas and concerns regarding our JPL project. He agreed with us about using a pwm to change the speed of the conveyor belt motor,and about using a gearbox to smoothen out the motor's operation. Doing this will also restrict the motor from being influenced by the resistence of the ball.

9/30/14
started practiceing working on website editing. It's pretty simplistic and ugly, but at least im finally online!

10/1/14
Didnt do the wednesday challenge, instead worked on JPL with Daniel,Gaby,and Adrian. I ordered a pulse width modulator off of Ebay to be used in conjunction with the arduino to control the speed of the conveyor belt motor.It is supposed to arrive on the 9th of october.

10/10/14
For the wednesday challenge, our group decided to use 3 jenga blocks in the construction of our bridge. we got a span of 4 and a component length of 2. so we didnt do to bad, because we used so little components and still had a relitively long span.

10/13/14
we are reveiwing our websites and im totally dissapointed in the way mine looks compared to everyone else. It just looks plain terrible, or should i say it looks plain and terrible. I dont know how to do anything special to make my website look special at all. the only thing i know how to do is edit text. And the only reason i have a marquee and a different text color and backround is because i had my neighbor help me. I havent even been able to insert a picture correctly.

10/21/14
I didnt do anything for this wednesay challenge, we were inside the shop working on the jpl invention challenge. I had to assist the other group in making there horn. i had to use the lathe to make the edge of the pipe which contacts the diaphram perfectly straight so that the diaphram doesn't begin to get cut through. we also made sure that the entire horn can be quickly disassembled in the field, IF for some reason we need to replace something.

10/24/14
we recieved a new pwm to use for controlling our motor, this one seems to be higher quality than the previous one. this one is also more powerfull, rated for 15 amps and 9-90 volts. we haven't decide which motor we are going to use, but we are torn between using the geared motor and the direct drive motor.

10/28/14
i found out my mistake in trying to upload, and the problem was simply that the journal wasnt named index.html instead it was connors journal.html which my computer didnt agree with. i also added 2 pictures to my website of what a pwm wave looks like and what an electric motor looks like for those who have never seen one before.