User:Hsingh8658/enes100/Model Boat

Link to team page. Model Boat

Give instructor top 3 project choice list
Typically the instructor picks teams. Students send the instructor their top 3 choices. The project choices are typically those found at Category:General_Engineering_Projects. The instructor tries to put students in the project of their choice. Put your top three choices here after they are used to assign you to this project. Create a link to the project root and to where your team will be working.

1. Model Boat

2. Helicopter

3. Ballbot

Write problem statement
Look through the existing problem statements. Find something not yet done on the project. Create a problem statement for it. Think of a new subsystem that needs to be built for the project. The goal is something simple, possible, for zero dollars.

Our main task will be to design and control a boat.

Assign Task1
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I will watch some videos about model boat for brainstorming. Also, I'm curious to know about the working, frequency and other things about radio controllers of a RC car.

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Rationalize differences

I watched many videos about model boat. While selecting the design for the boat, I first thought of making the following design http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdCN9UokQGY&feature=related. I selected this design because it was simple and it uses the same mechanism as an RC car. We just have to replace tires by spoons and have to connect the direction controller of the car to the tail wing of the boat. I watched some more videos about this kind of boats. Some of the links are

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dubUBN8xoc4&feature=watch_response

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSCgLE9Asqk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqVaVNhBhdc&feature=related this shows the boat with three bottles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t34Cn7EVvwo&feature=related

To explore other possibilities, I looked through some different designs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaIGemNMwdE&feature=related //this boat has a tail fan that provides forward push

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgsB1oDI01c // Propellers provide the forward force to run boat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7sXMtcex6g // A propeller and two fans are used to run and control boat

All designed were discussed among team members and the design shown in the last video was selected for our model boat as it is more challenging because we have to use more than one controller and have synchronize then well. Also, we don't have to waste much time on insulating things.

Week1 Narrative
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Week1 Peer Review
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Assign Task2
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the weekend between week1 and week2 of the project here.

I will try to figure out how can we use the controller of RC car to control fan speed of boat.

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Week2 Narrative
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Week2 Peer Review
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Assign Task3
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the weekend between week2 and week3 of the project here.

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Week3 Narrative
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Week3 Peer Review
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Done

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

Will work on controlling boat with remote and will test the boat in pond

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Week4 Narrative
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Week4 Peer Review
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Complete Project Page
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Start Next Project Week0 activities
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