User:Anton1102/enes100/strandbeest

Link to project strandbeest team page.

Week0 Activities
Watch the projects that were done by the other teams before us. I will be looking through the pics I took from the class and YouTube videos. Work/brainstorm the designs and materials for this project

Write problem statement
Need to find the way to earn the resources/materials for this projects. Also need to design with drawings and Notebooks. Come up with an agreement with the team with specific details within the designs that we will come up with (Size, materials, design, and etc.)

Create an our own strandbeest that can walk by its own.(Attach motors)

Assign Task1

 * Derive the ideas from the other projects/ideas
 * Brainstorm how to make our own differed designs
 * Be ready to discuss topic (materials and designs) with the group

Week1 Activities
Got with the group and discussed with the three models that were done before ours. We came up with what kind of materials we are going to use.
 * Pushed to understand how the legs work.
 * Decided as a group to gather the materials for this week's activity/goal

Compare actual work done to Task1

 * Made the team to decide that we use "PLASTICS materials" as our main structure of our design. (Light, durable, and cheap materials)
 * Brought out the ideas of using toy motors/engines to allow our strandbeest to move itself when activated. The toy engines can be those that are from walking toys. ( wind by hand or pull the string to activate the engines).
 * The team decided to use legos as our materials and lego engines are easily attachable to lego strandbeest and they are battery powered thus easy for the team to activate the stranbeest when the whole design is constructed. (The one of the engines I have found to buy for the project is below at "WEEK 1 Narrative".)

Week1 Narrative
The websites for the ideas and materials that will be considered to be applied/used. The 2nd design that is also on the notebook. This design is going to be used
 * LegoEngine(Need to have battery and remote control/switch)
 * StransbeestLegs (The model/design+illustration are done by Theo Jansen. This will be probably applied to our models)
 * I was convinced by Theo Jansen's design. It seemed to be most effective design and thus I pushed this idea to the strandbeest project since we are going to use legos. (Theo Jansen's simulation)
 * The idea of using lego seemed the most idealistic because its light and cheap to get. Also it is fairly easy to replicate many parts such as strandbeest's legs than the woods or metals(copper)
 * Lego Strandbeest demonstration by others on Youtube

Week1 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 1sfoerster 13:32, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.
 * Anton did help very much with his strandbeest leg designs which did give us a positive idea to start our designs from. This design did help make using lego parts the preffered material choice.
 * He was also very helpful and offered to seek out some lacking lego parts.qchi
 * Antonio helped a lot with the basics of the strandbeest and the basic design and fundamentals of the strandbeest. RyanPak 21:35, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Assign Task2

 * Find as many lego pieces that I personally have that can be used to build our strandbeest.
 * Review the design and get ready to construct "parts" of (not "whole") strandbeest.
 * Test out or analyze the parts that are going to be created and see if they can function correctly even when attached into whole strandbeest structure.

Compare actual work done to Task2

 * Instructed the team members to construct their own models and we are going to vote on the best model (Divide and Conquer)
 * My model was chosen to be used as the model for the strandbeest
 * Added more features to make the model more smoother and durable
 * Pushed to replicate my chosen model for strandbeest. And successfully replicated 2 more and we now have total of 3 pairs of legs.

Week2 Narrative

 * Came up with the design we are going to use for the strandbeest on 9/26/11.
 * Put more pieces on the legs in order to make the legs more stronger and agile. Also with the team mates, we replicated more of this model in order to advance to the final step of the Strandbeest.

Assign Task3

 * Get ready to buy/use the lego motor for final step of the strandbeest
 * Double check the model to see any possible error or difficulty adding more features such as motors.
 * Decide whether to buy/use Medium motor or XL LegoEngine motor for the lego
 * Use Autodesk 123D to represent the strandbeest in 3D model

Compare actual work done to Task3

 * Our group is working on the pieces that will need to put on the strandbeest and the motor so that they both can be attached together.
 * I have suggested to the team to present our group's project this week with my wikiversity page with links as tools to help present our project.
 * The motor is now has been ordered and about to be ready for use and the lego set has also will come in for replicating the strandbeest to desired amount.

Week3 Narrative

 * We started to build the pieces that will join the strandbeest with the motor
 * I suggested the idea of using the similar method that the Bionicle used for their very first designs/figures- The rotating arms rotate opposite directions which the strandbeest legs have to also in order to keep the timing of the movement perfect
 * And we glued the bridges of the strandbeest so that they will stay fixed and keep the strandbeest balanced while in motion.

Assign Task4

 * Get into the class before Wednesday to make sure we can finish the whole project by Wednesday.
 * Attach the motor to the strandbeest successfully and test it out to insure no major problems are present.
 * Bring in any necessary lego parts I have so that the replication of the strandbeest and the building of the motor can be smoothly finished.
 * If this project cannot be finished, decide whether to continue this project or start a new project with the different team members.

Compare actual work done to Task4

 * Planned and designed the piece that will put the strandbeest and the motor together
 * Pushed to finish the project while the members were giving up
 * Built the piece that was designed and put into the strandbeest and tested for its function
 * Finalized the strandbeest except the motor (Did not order early enough)

Week4 Narrative

 * Even though the motor did not get in time, our group was successful at building fully functioning strandbeest.
 * Pushed to finalize the project for the last time with the group
 * Built the designed piece with ease due to the notes I took on the notebook.
 * The piece was tested multiple times and finalized and put into the strandbeest
 * Did not build the separate part for the motor to be part of the strandbeest structure.