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Automatic Shaker Table

Intro to Engineering and Design
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Project Preference

 * 1 Shaker Table (Implement)
 * 2 Hockey Table
 * 3 MakerBot PLA Material Characterization (Implement)

Problem Statement
''In one or two sentences, describe the project that your group will be working on. Identify what CDIO phase (Conceive, Design, Implement, or Operate) your group will complete in this project cycle.''

Project Plan
Briefly describe your group's plan for the next 4 weeks, including major tasks that will be completed each week.

Week 1 Narrative
''My group and I are working on the Automatic Shaker Table project and came up with questions we are asking ourselves in order to start this project and be able to figure out how to design this. I also researched information that will be useful for us to know when working on this project. For example, figuring out codes for frequency and placements for the knob and motor''

Week 2 Narrative
''For week two I decided that we should use arduino to put an on/off button, and be control the shakertable for when it starts and stops with also using a cord to power the whole machine on. I searched different videos and ideas online and even helped my group find a great design online we could get ideas from. I found this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA_5pfCjhus the person tested a motors speed control using codes where he triggered individual outputs and found it interesting and would give me an idea to for my group on working on our motor for our design. We have a box used for a platform and where we will put the motor and arduino underneath it which will be where all the work will happen. The way we decided to connect the whole design of the automatic shaker table is to use a box that is 3ft by 3ft sized that will have an arduino supporting it and we decided to use a breadboard for it which will connect the on/off switch, motor and a knob that will show the frequency oh how high or low the table will shake. we also liked the design of this shaker table that is using a DC motor http://jclahr.com/science/earth_science/shake/plans/deni/mechanical.htm. And finally, our group had decided on different types of designs of where we want to place everything, we drew different ways on how to design this. For example, we thought it would be a good idea to use four wooden or metal rods to hold up the platform and underneath that we would connect the motor some way in order to actually move the table from side to side with going counter-clockwise and that when the arduno and breadboard will come in order to work it ''

Week 3 Narrative
'' Finalizing Design

The third week of working on the automatic shaker table we decided to list out the things my group and myself needed to get done for example we needed to know how the design will work and many motors we wanted to use ( decided on using one motor) and far we want to move the table to move when shaking which we won't know until we use the arduino another task we listed was the CDIO report and prepare a powerpoint we will present on tuesday in class and the last task was working on the coding. my task was to figure out the measurements for the base and decided that the base should be 2' by 3' we decided this because we wanted the base to be a rectangular shape so this would be the perfect size for the base, and we are going to use two boards underneath to cover the nails so it won't be sticking out and the boards will be 2 by 40 as you can see the pictures to the side. For the base we did exact measurements so we could use 1 foot out of the three to put all the parts we need to start the shaker table like the motor and arduino. My group also decided on the coding for the arduino and that we will use a breadboard to connect everything. In the three pictures i posted on the side is the measurments and the list I made with my group working on the board. The only problem my group will need to decide on is the type of motor that will be able to work

http://www.geo.mtu.edu/~jdiehl/ETM.pdf this is also the website we use to get our ideas from instead of using a drill we will use a motor and we changed and altered many other things



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Week 4 Narrative
''For the last week of working on this project we had a lot do in order to complete this project. My task was to complete the overall circuits so i know it would work and also to work on our CDIO report. I worked on the placement of the potentiometer that i will show the increase and decrease resistance in order to control the voltage. In order for us to test this we needed to use a breadboard but for the final project we will be soddering the wires. I also made sure that the motor we were using had a high amount of voltage for us to work with on this design because using too much voltage would burn out the regulator on the arduino board. Voltage is needed to turn on the motor and the amount of voltage can be ran from an external source, such as a batter to the arduino. So what i did was take a battery and connect the wires to it and attached the arduino so it will give us more power. We had problems getting the motor to work as you can see in the video i will be posting. The computer and program itself is not enough power to get the motor running and using an outlet may cause it to have too much power so we decided to attach the wires to a high powered battery for the motor to work correctly. http://www.instructables.com/id/Powering-Arduino-with-a-Battery/ I also used this website to help me figure out how to power arduino using a battery.

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