Week 7: May 11, 2016

This week, we spent the majority of the lab period figuring out what part of our lab manual we will prepare for a group to test next week. Since they will only have one week to work on this and the entire manual deliverable covers 3 weeks, an independent part of this project must be created and ready for next week. The Arduino is the least creative art of our project, so we figured that would work well as a test run to make sure that our procedure was easy enough to follow. We wrote the manual to cover a basic lesson of how to use an Arduino, and then we finalized our design.

One of the issues we had with running the new motor was that the cardboard disc and the bottom and side of the container experienced too much friction with each other. We trimmed the disc so that it was a bit small than the container, because the rod is not perfectly straight and will slightly wobble the disc to make it scrape against the sides. Our final project is shown below.

Figure 10: Final Design

Next week we will trial run a different groups project as well as have our own trialed on. This will ensure that our lab manual is easy enough to follow. This will provide the proper editing that our manual needs.