User:Jchism4804/ENES-100/Project 1

Cornstarch Walk
Here is the conceive portion of the CDIO page

Conceive page

Week1 Narrative
I divided up the different ideas in the categories of power source, drive mechanism, and traits that we want in our design. After the category had been set we brain stormed for different ideas that would fit into the categories that we had devised. After that we divided the workload of research. Then we set out on our own individual research.

My Second Task
Once the group meets the next time we shall compile our results and try to sell our ideas and then we vote on the best ideas that will work best in our eyes. then we will all work on the design of our vehicle based on the categories we voted.



Week2 Narrative
This weekend I studied and found out some of the ways that others have put mechanical energies to use on cars, but the route that seems to be the easiest and most strait forward approuch is to attach a spring the drive of one or both wheels and wind it up to use the mechanical energies.

Here are linked examinations of Trial 1 video 1 video 2

My Third task
Start to research walking machines, and how they may be used with an energy source. Also, to make modifications to the machine so it will have the necessary speed and force needed to create the surface needed to walk on.

Week3 Narrative
During this week I aided in the revival of the cornstarch which was dried out. Once this was done I did some test with a toy car that kept getting swallowed by the cornstarch. So it has been decided that I should abandon the car idea and go for a walking machine design. This is a result of the concept failure of the car design.

My Fourth task
During this final weekend I meet with my team to divided up the final parts of our project documentation. My part that was to be done was the making of the final draft of the cornstarch making tutorial.

Here are linked examinations of Trial 2: Trial 2: Walking Trial 2: Crawling Trial 2: Rotating Wheel

Week4 Narrative
During the final portion I collaborated with the team. Also, I had to prepare a final presentation for the class and to pass on any data to anybody else that may have a question that may not be addressed in their campaign to potentially design a cornstarch walking vehicle.  /Cornstarch Mixing/  Here is associated Clean Up Video I did this--Jchism4804 (discuss • contribs) 22:15, 11 March 2013 (UTC)