Week 5

OUR GENERATOR CAME IN !!!

SO we learned a lot today. After playing with our generator and attaching it to the oscilloscope we discovered it works. Which is great news. But in order to get a decent charge from it the wheel much be turning counter clockwise and at a pretty good speed. For example the speed at which your finger spins it rather than flicking it. Once again the design confused some people and was fought over somemore. The materials are here. This week we will have a paritally built prototype and material research.

 
 

Week 4!

For some reason this week we were still deliberating on what we were building exactly. But that was soon resolved. After making a todo list for class and the week business was getting done. The model was agreed on and an generator was purchased. Hopefully that will be in for next week. Thursday we are meeting up to go buy supplies.
Our idea is something that hanges off the back of a boat to catch the water current to turn the turbine. When the turbine turns it will charge a generator attached to the framing but sits out of the water. Our frame so far is going to be made from Pvc pipe and all other materials are going to be researched in the week.

Week 3

Week 3

We are still debating on putting the turbine partially submerged or comlpetely. Also we had a revelation! As it turns out the group was thinking of two different types of turbines and therfore confusing eachother when talking about how to get it to work. Jayme and Mary's idea was: 

Dom, Jonathan, and Greg's idea was:

After getting on the same page the next debate was how to power our turbine or get power from it. Simply what motor/generator is going to be used to get power from the turbine to the battery. 

Week 2

Week 2

This week was research, deilberating, and feedback. Today research was done to decide between which kinda of turbine to use and whether or not to have the peice completly submerged in water or not. It was decided on having the turbine charge a battery on board on a boat and to use a small stepper motor in the turbine.

Our beautiful art while deliberating. 

Week 1

WEEK1!

With lots of deliberation on possible projects ranging from solar powered to BOATS the group decided to work with water power.