Goal Week 1

• plan and sketch a potential final project

In this week I explain the idea of my final project.

Idea of Final Project:

I have planned a machine which manage to remove the leaves from the olives. It's composed by a rectangular structure made of wood. Inside of the structure, there are two sloped labs and within these two the olives will come down. Outside the machine, in front view (see figure below), there is a support which hold on the motor electric which give power to a fire fun and a display which shows the main information of the system. The machine also has a grid at the top, where we put the olives on. In my opinion, could be interesting adding a 'rake' next to the grid which could help us to remove some leaves before the olives cross the grid.

Machine working:

side view(2D):

anatoher side view(3D):

Machine drawing showing dimension:

side view showing dimension(2D):

front view showing dimension(2D):

here below there are two links that show some examples of the machine working:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TakWW-0_t2Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkEOnha4Fbo

For my final project idea, I found some very interesting examples, but I wanted to put some innovative structures that are not found in other machine. Infact, I think that the use and control of the machine is as important as its way of working.

Point of Innovation :

• Connection: with a bluetooth connection we can control the setting of the machine and the motor speed, see the measure of the leafless olives and its processing time (that is, the time that has passed since we've turned on the machine)

• Display: we can see on the machine everything which we can control with the connection

• Sensor: we can measure the weight of the olives without their leaves

How can we control the setting and the motor speed?

We choose the power of the motor(voltage) by using a potentiometer. We put it in front of the machine and near the display (manual use). If we set automatic use, the machine will work with a default motor speed.

This sketch is also visibile on the page of the final project where I am going to record week-by-week what I am going to use for my project design

P.S. : Because of some photos have 3 mb of size , I need to compress them with JIMP. I managed to compress my photos until 200 Kb. Here below you may find a comparison between file compressed vs the original one