User:Tjaw94/ENES 100/project 0

Project Preference

 * 1) Useless box
 * 2) Makerbot
 * 3) Escher

Problem Statement
This project is to try and transfer a 1/4 cup of water into another cup only using beads given in class. The project is to use the least amount possible == Project Plan ==

each of us did a different style of trying to absorbing the water with the beads. I personally started with 20 beads and increased over time. My teammates did the same thing but used different amounts of beads.

Week 1 Narrative
In this past week for the project 0 I did lots of reashearch to try and figure out what types of beads were used. I found out that they were beads which soaked up water and became bigger in size when left in water over time. I first started by putting 3 in a small Dixie cup to see how big the beads would fill up with water. once I did that I estimated about 20 beads into a 1/4 cup of water. I left them for about an hour and then added another 20 because their was still lots of water. I then added another 20 after an hour. Then I added another 20 about 30 minutes later and let them sit for an hour. I noticed their were still a couple of drops left and dropped 2 more beads in just to make sure all the water was soaked up and then poured them into the other cup. Overall I think my prodecure for this project was efficient but I didn't use the least amount of beads. the next step would be to see if I could use half of that by leaving the beads in the water for longer amounts of time.