User:MuzicMan60/ENES-100/project 2

Week1 Narrative
Over The weekend my prototype balloons arrived and I began testing to see if the balloons would serve as a good conduit for the Q design and what amount of water would make the right size balloon for a person`s hand. I tested 3 balloons filled to different sizes; 1 filled up enough to remove all of the wrinkles, 1 to rid the balloon of most, and 1 that still had all of its wrinkles.

I ran into a variety of problems:


 * I noticed the hole in the balloon may be too small and too tight. I had to basically roll the balloon up my hand to my wrist to get it on. It formed a good seal but was very tight coming up my hand. In order for the balloon to be compatible with the Core Control device, it must stay stationary and allow the hand to slide through.


 * The size of my hand displaced the water and caused it to all gather on one side instead of making a Q shape


 * I also experienced trouble trying to tie off the less filled balloons. As I have relatively large hands, it was hard for me to grasp the balloon and tie it off without loosing to much of the actual shape of it.

The balloons must be tested on new subjects to see if they experience the same problems before scrapping the material.


 * please provide a link to the purchase of these balloons .. please bring back the weather balloon material ... not sure where you want to go next with this ... testing with pressurized air inside? Need brainstorm of options ... present what you did to the class and capture all the brainstorming that goes on ... 10/10/20 --1sfoerster (discuss • contribs) 14:32, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Week2 Narrative
This week I tested different fillers inside of the balloons for the Q design to see if anything ould work better than the water. Out of the 3 materials I tested: Water, Air and flour. Water produced the best results. The problems with each were:


 * With the air the Inner Hole would become to tight and was not as flexible and moldable as the water.


 * The Flour had the exact opposite issues. Aside from being difficult to fill the balloon with flour because of the flours light density, The flour could not stretch out the balloon enough to be used as a universal size for each persons arm. I also think that if we tested this material, it would be sucked straight into the body of the core control device.

Will need to find something to seal the medium sized balloon inside of the top of the core control device.


 * 10/10/10 good start .. need to document the brainstorming in class today .. --1sfoerster (discuss • contribs) 23:16, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Week3 Narrative
Over the weekend I searched for a new kind of balloon to see if there are any specialized balloons that fit my needs. I came across /Medical Extraction Balloons/ as well as/Aerostat Models/. At first sight the Medical Balloons appear to be too small and not very flexible. They would not make for a durable Q design. The Aerostat Model on the other hand was to large, however it appeared to be easily manipulated. The Aerostat balloons may make a good test for the Q if they can be manipulated and reshaped into rings. This material comes in bulk so multiple ring sizes can be created and tested.
 * very confusing ... nothing that pushes project forward ... put links on this page, not a stub of this page .. why two links to the same thing? and a picture of a hot air balloon? .. what happened to the brain storming of last class? free mind picture?? 10/0/0 ... --1sfoerster (discuss • contribs) 15:23, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Week4 Narrative
This weekend I tried to find a solution to inflating the balloon. The current industrial air compressor is much to big and bulky and the air mattress I took home does not have the right size reducer for the balloon and is not long enough, so I decided to try and make a hose to lengthen it as a temporary fix until i could get back to the school and find a more permanent tubing. I used a straw to lengthen the reducer and it also served the purpose of focusing the stream of air.

I also began better defining my teams problems in a program called Freemind. After figuring out how the software worked, I created 2 map diagrams inside of FreeMind:


 * Please eliminate the single quotes ... they are instructions .. have gallery tags above that were not used ... you continue to create another page with a http link it ... why??? look at how other people are doing it ... or how I am correcting it ... you are forcing me to edit ... you wrote a report ... nothing that someone else could reproduce ... not clear you had air mattress pump ... no documentation of the problem ... only vaguely mentioned ... implying previous conversation with me ... need picture of the air mattress pump .. need picture of where it needs to connect to the core control .. need pictures of the hose, reduce, straw that failed, pictures of the lengthening that failed .. post picture of the board so the freemind drawing you created can be compared to it ... right now you have not captured the beauty of what was done on the board ... if you are learning freemind, post a youtube or youtube playlist you used to learn it so someone else has a starting point ... value what you do ... 10/10/10 .. --1sfoerster (discuss • contribs) 16:08, 8 April 2014 (UTC)