User:Nkapustin/project2

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Project Preference

 * 1) Maker Bot PLA
 * 2) Wind Turbine
 * 3) Mobile Robot Navigation

Problem Statement
''In one or two sentences, describe the project that your group will be working on. Identify which one or two CDIO documents your group will create in this project cycle.''

Project Plan
Briefly describe your group's plan for the next 4 weeks, including the specific activities that will take place each week.

Week 1 Narrative
This past week, we established as a group what we needed to accomplish for the week. While Neeha and Eke worked on their part of researching different geometries and ways to improve the current design of the current product. Eke and I also created a small test to see the effectiveness of the shroud we have on at the moment as a data point to compare to. We got some pretty good and different results, which proved the test was a success. It showed that the shroud that we had was not very optimal for a more realistic wind effect (Not a leaf blower with a shroud over it to direct it which way to blow). When that was taken off, we got data that still produced data, but not to the level that we had hoped.

Week 2 Narrative
This week, I rewired the circuit so that it could take the max wattage from the fan instead of the arduino limiting it. I'll add some schematics later, as I can't find my notebook.

Week 3 Narrative
This week, I took the code that was left over from the last group and I took out some parts of it and cleaned it up. This gets rid of the annoying sensor value output on the LCD screen so it is cleaned up quite well. Also, this week I tweaked the design from last week of the wiriing schematic. I replaced both resistors so they add up to 51k Ohms, so the program doesn't have to be modified very heavily.

Week 4 Narrative
''Describe in detail what you did for your team during the week (and weekend). Link to any CDIO documents you are working on. Compare your task (from CDIO discuss page) with what you actually did.''