User:Gharris/ENES100/Igloo

Write problem/project Goal
We need to design a stable igloo made of either snow or ice.

My First Task
This week I was tasked with studying the previous groups work and seeing how we can use their calculations and the possibilities of truing their mathematical model into a program to spit out geometric data for every individual block\

Summary of actual work over first weekend
So After Reviewing some work I Focused my efforts on the type of material we needed Since I don't expect it to snow any time within the time period of our projects so I started looking up how to make snow makers After looking on line I found many projects Many involving pressure washers and Compressors Although I did also found some that only use a compressor ( here and here is the link to the rest of the plans

Week2 Narrative
This week I went and priced out the project piece by piece at home depot i will give the exact breakdown later but it will cost about 51 dollars though I did some specific redesigns. including a one way valve and and a male compressor quick connect I have also subtracted several pieces to cut the cost by 20 dollars.

My Third task
This week I went and priced out the steel and brass parts for the snow machine it came to about fifty dollars i'm looking for ways to drop the price.

Summary of actual work over third weekend
This weekend I collected all the nessicary pieces for the project and my personal up grades to it and consolidated them all into a PDF document with the picture full name and sku number. I did this by first going to the Homedepot web site and going to the plumbing section and tracking down ever piece in the plumbing section  by what it looks like. We then discovered that the atmospheric temperature might affect the machines by freezing the compressor and power washer valve.

Week3 Narrative
After looking online i found a site that provides advice for using pressure washers in sub zero ttemperatures

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Summary of actual work over fourth weekend
''I've studied web sites on how to keep a pressure washer operational in temperatures bellow 0 Celsius there is several Strategies to keep the machine for freezing I am going to outline the two I believe will be the easiest and most successful. The first of which is simply putting the pressure washer in a large cardboard box with a halogen lamp And the second is to have a tarp over the machine and a propane area heater there You would use the tarp like a camping roof by suspending it with rope from nearby objects. Out of those two I must recommend the first one for several reasons The first of which is the ease of fuel access the halogen lamp runs off of electricity much like the pressure washer so all we would have to do is get a spliter for the extension cord while the propane heater needs a propane tank. The second is safety The halogen lamps put of heat but the propane putts off much more heat so that brings up the problem of melting the tarp over the heater.The last one is ease of acquiring it. We have halogen lamps and card board boxes but tarps ropes and propane and a propane heater are harder to get. ''

Week4 Narrative
Tell a detailed story describing what you did for your team over the weekend.

Complete Team Page
Fill out the Team Form (should have already copied the form, created the team page, linked to it and started filling it out).