User:Minhnguyen/ENES-100/Project 2

Week0 Preferences
''Top choices for project 2- 1. Static propulsion 2. EM Drive 3. Rube Goldberg''

Week1 Narrative
''We all decided that we would each research different ideas of how to power a static lifter. There are also a lot of different shapes and sizes that we could make our lifter. We have not decided what would work best. Making the actual lifter is not hard at all, it is probably the easiest part of the project. During my research, I found a very interesting video that shows the ion current that the electricity creates. This is what causes the object to "float" too.Smoke Test The hardest part of this lab is going to be the power supply because with out a power supply we can not do anything. To make a power supply with enough volts to make the lifter float is also very dangerous. This is our biggest challenge.''--2601:A:800:1F:10C5:7E0F:2CB:2831 (discuss) 13:44, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Here are the different models that we found.Static Lifters

My Second Task
For next we are going to discuss how we are going to come up with a power supply. We could make one but there are a lot of risk involved and if you do it wrong you could die. Since, there are so many risk this might just turn out to be a conceive project. --2601:A:800:1F:10C5:7E0F:2CB:2831 (discuss) 13:44, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Week2 Narrative
''For week two our group is still researching different power supplies. The static lifter requires a huge amount of energy. To create a power supply that can generate this type of voltage is very dangerous. The two power supplies that we could possibly use is a Tesla coil or a fly back transformer from an old TV or computer monitor. The process of extracting the transformer is the dangerous part. There are companies that sell high voltage power supplies that would be able to generate the large amount of volts that we need. But these power supplies are also very expensive and out of our price range.''

My Third Task
We still have to find our power supply before we can move any farther with this project. This may just be a conceive project since it would be fairly difficult to create the power supply.

Week3 Narrative
''Tell a detailed story describing what you did for your team over the first weekend. Link to any CDIO documents you are working on that need to be considered for project points. Compare your task with what you actually did.''

Week4 Narrative
''Tell a detailed story describing what you did for your team over the first weekend. Link to any CDIO documents you are working on that need to be considered for project points. Compare your task with what you actually did.''