User:Stevecole888/enes100/My Work2

Write problem/project Goal
Our goal is to design and create a spaghetti bridge by first brainstorming a way to make spaghetti attach to arch and base most efficiently

My First Task
I am going to create a design of where the spaghetti will attatch to the arch and also how to make the cable out of spaghetti the most effiecient and stable way

Summary of actual work over first weekend
I designed parts for the spaghetti bride where the cable connects to the arch and how to build cable. desided that spaghetti should be glued on side of the arch or drilled into arch, and have a solid spaghetti glued end to end or have a smaller spaghetti that fits into a bigger spaghetti which i think is the better design.

Week1 Narrative
I created a couple of design options for our spaghetti bridges. The first design is how to connect the cord of spaghetti to the arch just on the side. Or drill a hole in the arch and stick the cord inside of the arch directly. And my last design is to have to cords on either sideof the arch peice and glue them on the sides. we have not decided upn the design we will use becasue we have to test first before we should decide.

In addition to all of this I found different types of spaghetti that our group can choose from to specify to our agreed upon design.

I also created a tutorial of how to create a hole in 123d so the next group doesnt have the same problem with it as i did.

My Second Task
Design more parts to bridge and start testing some spaghetti design cords for strength

Summary of actual work over second weekend
I created a better and more abstract designs that combines all of the good aspects of the teams designs. Also build all designs and took pictures of then finished. then broke them with hands and found out which design was stronger or weaker. then took pictures of them broken and where they broke to show where the weak parts of the designs are.

Week2 Narrative
First thing i did over the weekend was design more cords to our spaghetti bridge in 123d. There was a double-single-double design, and a Single-double-single design. Bothe of these are made to make the breaking point of where the glue is to be not as weak and actually have the spaghetti break somewhere other then the glue. After I designed these I started preparin g to build them so i got my materials ready which were spaghetti, and bow and arrow glue which is what i used instead of apoxy just for testing purposes, and luckly was strong enough that the spaggetti broke somewhere other then where peices were glued together, but the final build we will uses apoxy. So the first thing i did was get the best uncracked spaghettiout of box to have consistant testing. Then I started constructing the designs I created. I started with the simplest, single-single design, then the single-double-single, and lastly the double-single-double. Once they were fully dried I started testing there strength by pulling on them. The first couple of times I pulled on single strands of spaghetti and the spaghetti broke becasue i was bending it by accident but after i got the pulling down and the spaghetti didnt break becasue of my bending I started to do it on the cords I designed and built. So I started with breaking the single- single.It broke just in high stress areas. It didnt take that much force to break it though probibly becuase it is a simpler and not very thought out design. So after that I broke the double- single-double.This broke just above where the 2 spaghettis on the outside and the spaghetti on the inside meet as expected and took quiet a bit of force to do. Then i broke the single-double-singlewhich broke just before the single peice of spaghetii reached the double peices. This break didnt take as much force as the double single double though so threw this testing the double single double design is the strongest.

My Third task
start mass producing spaghetti cords and also create kits to build a spaghetti cord to hand out to class so they can help me build massive amounts of cords for testing.

Summary of actual work over third weekend
I created a tutorial to make a kit to have the class help mass produce our beams to be attatched to arch. also created sample beam for call to look at.

Week3 Narrative
This week my job was to create a way to show the class how to build a spaghetti beam with our new design and i created a tutorial for the class which shows where to glue and what the design looks like when finished. I also created a final productof what all the beams should relatively look like so their is no confusion. Also I created a sample kitthat i want to get aproved by my team before i start mass producing. it consists of 7 peices of spaghetti even though our design only needs 5 peices but just incase a couple would break or if some are warped and we didnt catch it when we handed them out. Also has a link to our team page in it which leads them to the tutorial movie and final product picture that we want, just in case they cant find our team page otherwise. it has no apoxy because that would mean we would have to buy 100's of apoxy which is to much money. Inorder for someone to use our kit they need to have apoxy at home or use the schools. thats the only set back

My Fourth task
mass produce kits and also try to find a way to have mini apoxy kits also if possible so everyone can participate, also try to build a testing arch.

Summary of actual work over fourth weekend
I finaly got some apoxy to use on a peice of spaghetti. so i created a tutorial on how to use apoxy because i have never used before but it was pretty easy and also glued a peice of spagetti with it.

Week4 Narrative
Tell a detailed story describing what you did for your team over the weekend. I got apoxy for the first time and took a couple of trys to figure out at first because i have never used apoxy before so thats why it took a while. But when i got it down i thought it would be a good idea to create a tutorial about apoxy so other people could repat what I did except better even becuase they have a good tutorial. But simpley all you need is to get your materialsready before you start and have what you are going to glue ready becasue the apoxt sets in 3 minutes so you kindof have to rush and you mix an even amout of apoxy then put on desired thing to glue in my case was spaghetti and then wait an hour and its done. Also on another note, for ou rmass production kits, i found a link to cheap apoxyfor our kits since that was the only thing missing in our kits that was hjolding us back from handing them out. and because our group is staying with the bridge part but moving to the arch we will hand out the kits for everyone to use once the arch is completed, so jsut 3 people dont have to mass produce beams but 10 or 12 can mass produce them it will help our production, and testing speed an emence amount. Also ove rthe weekend i created7 beamsso we can test out an arch before we hand out the kits just to see how our beams designwere to hold up against real testing.

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