User:Mirandamario94

My name is Mario Miranda I am attending Howard Community College and am in ENES 100 Currrently I am working on the "illuminated Clothing" project and have made huge leaps towards documenting the project and helping with safety information. Along side that I am in charge of working with the smaller lit accessories that will coincide with the illuminated hoodie we are currently working on. My contributions towards the team include the afety information highlighted in the "next steps" portion of our dedicated wikiversity page.

"After extensive research we've concluded that incorporating batteries into clothing can be deemed as safe as long as the voltage stays below 12V. Seeing as how we're using triple A batteries which are below 5V, lower than most children's toys, risk of electrocution is slim to none. Although we don't recommend it, you could jump into a river if you'd like and you would feel little less than a small buzz. Not only that but you wouldn't have to worry about High Frequency EMF radiation. Again, because the clothing is operating at such small levels of power the frequency emitted by the batteries is below 0hz; radiation is of no concern. One of the safety hazards that we will have to worry about is heat. Small "hot spots" could potentially be created if the wiring is done wrong or if we place to many batteries or conducting wires in a small vicinity. Taking this into account we concluded that easy measures can be taken to avoid burning and fire from these "hot spots" such as organized planning of where wires and batteries are layed out throughout the hoodie. Secondly, we could easily incorporate heat resistant or even flame retardant cloth where batteries would be layed out upon, or maybe as an entire layer to be 100% safe. Readily available technologies have paved the way for our EL wire/LED clothing safety." (Miranda, 2012)

Further information will be documented as soon as it becomes verified.

What we're doing now 11.16.12
With our group officially brought together we are in the process of making decisions on what we want to do! It seems as if though we're leaning towards wanting to make the car accelerate as fast as possible. With this we need to first get the engine running of course, but if we want swift acceleration we're going to need an enhanced gear ratio along with better suited tires and a different air/fuel ratio For now we need to take some measurements of the car and begin to do sketch ups of the individual systems involved with the car, such as the body, steering electrical system, motor, and a few others. Once all of our sketch ups are complete we may be able to remove the engine and see if its shot, repairable, rebuildable, or if replacing it will be the best option, much more is soon to come.

Problem Statement
To what heights can we take the SAE car 

Team Members
Mario Miranda

Summary
''Our team has come across an SAE car that is currently not in running conditions. It appears as if though its first objective was to be as fuel economic as possible. Currently it is not in running condition, two of its tires are popped, and the steering isn't far beyond terrible. Our team is faced with the question of "What do we want to do with this car". The implications of the question is if we want to continue its goal of fuel economy, do we want to make it reach speeds it's never seen before, or do we want it to be a drag racer with high accelerations. ''

Poster
''Put a graphic in wikimedia, include the graphic here or link to it here. The graphic should be suitable for creating a traditional project poster.''

Story
''Tell a detailed story of the project. Describe how split up, what the obstacles were, what testing was done, what informal decisions were made, what assumptions were made, what the results were.''

Decision List
List all formal decisions made with links to their documentation such as a decision tree or decision matrix.

Material List

 * 1. List materials used, quantity, size, cost.
 * 2. Describe what needs to be purchased in the future to continue working on this project.

Software List
''You installed different software packages or used already installed software. Describ the programs here.''

Time
''Put one number here. Hours. Total hours that everyone worked on the project. Do not estimate. Do not talk about it. ADD.''

Tutorials
''All projects create new tutorials of technical details future participants are going to want to know. They are going to be separate pages that are linked to here.''

Next Steps
List specific details, advice, describe the current problems that the next team faces associated with the project here.