User:Mstagger1599/ENES100/Project2

My instructor is Muhammad Ali Yousuf

Project Preference
''For this project, we will be creating a guitar pickup. A guitar pickup is a device that allows any guitar to be able to be played through an amplifier.''

Project Plan
''For the first week, we will be researching how a pickup works and the different ways to make them. The second week will be creating designs for the pickup in our notebooks and then we will create a 3D model using Autodesk Inventor 2014. The third week we will build a prototype and test it. And for the fourth week, we will create our final design of the guitar pickup.''

Week1 Narrative
''For the first week, I researched what a guitar pickup was since I did not know what a pickup was. I also did some research on how the pickup works. From what I researched, I found that the pickup is an electromagnet that picks up the vibrations from the metal guitar strings. The magnet then takes those vibrations and sends them through the coil which goes is connected to the auxiliary cable which is connected to the amplifier. The vibrations go through the aux cable and then the amplifier projects those vibrations.''

Week2 Narrative
''This week I created a 3D model of the pickup using Autodesk Inventor 2014. The model is of our final design. This final design will only be created if the prototype works the way we want it to. This week, I also came up with a few ideas for the prototype. These were drawn in my engineering notebook. For the next week, I will help create the prototype.''

Week3 Narrative
''This week, I helped my group come up with a final design for the prototype and I helped create the prototype. The prototype is made with two plastic cups, magnets from an old hard drive, and copper coil. To start off, we cut out the bottoms of the two plastic cups. After that we took out the magnets from the hard drive and hot glued them to the bottoms of the cups. After we did that, we wrapped the copper coil around the magnets. To finish the prototype, we took a match and burned off the enamel from the copper coil. Next week, we will test the prototype and hopefully be able to build the final design if the prototype works.''

Week4 Narrative
''This week was the final week that we had to work on the guitar pickup. We found that our prototype work well and we decided to make another one. Unfortunately, we were unable to create the final product. My 3D model included a piece that needed to be 3D printed, but due to time, we were unable to do that. For this week, I helped with creating the powerpoint presentation for this project. This powerpoint can be found here ''