User:Ablomme2125/enes100/Glorious2

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Problem Statement
Can i have a hovercraft that is able to be remote controlled? If so how would it be done and what would i use?

Assign Task1
Find remote control cars that I can take the circuit boards and motors out and reuse on our Hovercraft.

Compare actual work done to Task1
We had gotten some different models of RC cars, and took them apart to see what we could use. I found that the smaller green RC car had a motor for the direct drive, and then for the turning it used an electromagnet to attract and repel an earth magnet. So when ever the car wanted to turn, the circuit board would receive the radio signals from the remote, and it would put current into the electromagnet repelling the magnet.

Week1 Narrative
With the smaller RC car, i found that we could not use the Electromagnet to turn our hovercraft, because the motors would be too heavy for the small magnet. But with the Maisto RC car i found that it used a direct gear to turn the car. So what i did was took out the circuit board and the motor and we used that to control our lift motors.

Week1 Peer Review
My teammates and i have been making great process. Drew bought the foam platform that we are using for the deck of our hovercraft. James soldered all the wires together to make our circuit complete. We are making great progress thus far.

Assign Task2
I noticed upon returning from an absence, that my teammates went ahead and made a skirt for the bottom out of duct tape. I thought it was a great idea, but i noticed once i tested it, that there was just too much surface area of the tape touching the ground causing it to not slide easily. So next class i must come up with a way to make it more efficient.

Compare actual work done to Task2
At this point we have our lift turbines glued onto our platform. We also have a switch that's connected to them and the battery, that way we can turn them on and off when ever we are testing it. I went ahead and removed the duct tape that my teammates had on there, and just refined their idea, so that the air would escape uniformly.

Week2 Narrative
Waiting to Receive pictures.

Week2 Peer Review
I found that my teammates are doing a good job in keeping up with the work. James is doing fantastic keeping our team page up and running. While Drew is our wiring guru, he has soldered all of the wires on the project thus far. We need to keep progressing and pushing forward!

Assign Task3
Complete the Duct tape skirting that i had started previously this week.

Compare actual work done to Task3
Rationalize differences

Week3 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week3 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and a signature ~ by entering four tildes in a row to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Assign Task4
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the weekend between week3 and week4 of the project here.

Compare actual work done to Task4
Rationalize differences

Week4 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week4 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and a signature ~ by entering four tildes in a row to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Complete Project Page
Follow the "project done" format.

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