User:NathanMinnick58/ENES-100/project 0

Week1 Narrative
''Tell a detailed story describing what you did for your team over the first weekend. Link to any wiki pages you edited, videos created. Upload any pictures taken. Compare your task with what you actually did and write what you feel are the next steps.''

Week2 Narrative
Researched the printer that our group was assigned on Wednesday. The printer is called hp laserjet 4100dtn. A manual for the printer explaining and identifying the major components of the printer.

Week3 Narrative
On Monday the group work after class and disassembled the printer and took pictures and notes of the major components. The group started with a plan to remove the outside panels of the printer because this would allow us to look at the inside of the printer to determine what could be unscrewed. The side panels were no problem to remove. However the group could not remove the front or the top panels without breaking something. Later we figure out that the top panel was remove by pressing on a clip that kept it attached. The group tried unscrewing thing in the front to remove the front panel but we were only unscrewing other minor parts. The group then decided that the front panel could not be remove. The paper tray, the ink cartridge and the fuser were the first components that were remove. The ink cartridge could be reused or recycled. Unscrewing more parts we found a gear train, some circuit boards, a fan, and wires. At the end the group was able to remove the main body of the printer from where the tray of paper was held. The screws and the gears some of the wire could be reused for other projects. Identify some of the components on the circuit board such as the resistor, capacitor, transistor and other electronic components. The electronic components could not be reused because they were soldered to the circuit board.

On Wednesday in class I researched programming and software systems are that are offered.MATLAB is a programming that stands for Matrix laboratory. OpenSCAD is a CAD program that produces 3-D models. I find a wikibook OpenSCAD User Manual that will be help to understand the coding to produce 3-D shapes. I was able to produce a cube, that is 30 by 30 by 30. I learn that the dimensions are need for the program to design the size. The code i used was cube([30,30,30,],center = true)