User:Asmith6980/ENES-100/project 0

Week1 Narrative
I have gathered all the materials for the animal powered strandbeest. I have proceeded to drill holes in the sides of the animal running ball in order to accommodate the axle I am going to stick 3/16 in. dowel through the holes to turn the gears.

Here's my associated /CDIO/ page for week one.

My Second Task
To continue building down on the strandbeest. Ill have the supports made and begin the prototype of one of the legs of the strandbeest.

Week2 Narrative
I have skipped the step of making the supports because the legs are where the difficulty is located. My hopes of making a functional prototype of a leg was not successful. The popsicle sticks had a lot of friction between them making it difficult to have the legs move properly. Also the head pins that I was using for the joints did not work out as well as I had hoped, so I changed to using thumb tacks and that was complicated in itself because it would snap the popsicle sticks in half, so I resulted in using duct tape to hold the popsicle stick together while the thumb tack was inserted as a joint, and that proved to have its own set of difficulties as well.

My Next Task
On days with free time I plan on to continuing working on this project, however, my main focus will be on the new upcoming project that can be seen under my Project 1 link.