User:Jchism4804/ENES-100/Project 3

Electromagnetic transportation
Get a Coil-gun to a working prototype

My First Task
Start Collecting the necessary items and Talk to my team members and share ideas about how it may be brought together.

Week1 Narrative
Week on start very quickly for me. For me this was great thing to be on the same project back to back. This is a great thing so I can roll what I learned into this project allowing for me and my group to roll into the design phase. With that said I made great head-way into starting the task of breaking down an electric stapler for it already has a working coil with a power-supply that is already in working order. Thus, I bought a good stapler for the job and ripped into it. The disassemble worked fine but a problem that I noticed right away was the one I had originally wanted was one that used an IR sensor as the Trigger mechanism, but what I found was one that had a Manuel switch located on the circuit board itself. This caused concerns for safety by having the trigger right next to the exposed circuit board thus making it a potential shock hazard.

My Second task
Test alternative ways to use the trigger assembly!!

Week2 Narrative
During this week I made great progress on this project. This meaning of course I have a working prototype!! Initially looking at the stock trigger mechanism for this I didn't think it would be adiquite for the task that it would be needed for. Thus, I looked for an alternate switch which did bring some concerns due to the original switch being a four pin switch. Though luckily there was another switch available that was not necessary for the function of the coil. This is what I used for the new switch and with a little testing it worked perfectly. Then I cut up a piece of 1/2" CPVC pipe to make the body of the gun housing. Once that was done and all the pieces were notched in the right places. Then I assembled it into a Final Shooting Product!!!

My Third task
Refine my gun to allow for better power and precision.

Week3 Narrative
Overall this project is on hold until the ammo arrives. This is needed to create consistent testing parameters and eliminate another variable. This is important to start refining the power and accuracy components.

My Fourth task
Wait for the ammo and start the refinement.

Week4 Narrative
Start the cdio page and wrap this class up.