User:Ewoo9740/ENES-100/project 0

My Instructor's course page which points to this.

Project Preference

 * MakerBot PLA Material
 * Corn starch
 * Escher

Problem Statement
We need to transfer 1/4 cup of water using only beads and least amount of them.

Project Plan
Something my group will do is to focus more on using the least amount of beads instead of trying to do it in a short amount of time. Something I think I could do is to do multiple test of maybe 5 or 10 increments going up to either 20 or 30 beads. I will use 1/4 cup of water for each test and make sure it is covered so there is no evaporation of the water. Then wait as long as it takes until the beads are at full capacity. Then I will observe to see what the least amount of beads absorbs all the water

Week 1 Narrative
My team after getting this project met up on Thursday at around 6 and went to the library and did some research to find more information about the beads we got. We then figured out the beads absorb water and get bigger and bouncier. We all then did our own test at home and each used different amount of beads. I personally used 50 beads and it absorbed the water in 2.5 hours. Our task was to do this with the least amount of beads and I think I could do it with less than 50. Some next steps are to do more than just one test and start off with a small amount of beads instead of just guessing that 50 was the right amount.