Monday, February 28, 2011

3.1.7 Machine Control Design Part 1



-This project asks us to make a machine of our choice. We chose the project where we are asked to make a machine that drops a chocolate chip onto a cookie.


We chose this because it had the lowest level of software difficulty and we understand our strengths and weaknesses and we are not good at programming. We are however, decent at building contraptions because of what we learned during the first semester.


-Team Members: As we are taking initiative and making up the project we failed to complete in class at home, our team members solely include Brittany Hallawell and Sarah Dobi. We are working on this project completely equally and both of us are each other's MVP. :)

-Here are our two brainstorming possible solution sketches and our programing flowcharts, one is for the dropper and the other is for the conveyor belt.






Conclusion
1. What was the most difficult part of the problem? The most difficult part of the problem was the construction of our ideas because we had to use our creativity to construct a project out of nothing but commonplace household items.
2. List and describe two features that were not part of the design problem that could be added to improve your design. One device we could add would put each cookie individually into the packaging. Another innovation we could add would make the dropping device more claw-like and therefore more precise.

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