19. Project Presentation¶
19.0 Assignment of this week¶
Document a final project masterpiece that integrates the range of units covered,
answering:
What does it do?
Who’s done what beforehand?
What did you design?
What materials and components were used?
Where did they come from?
How much did they cost?
What parts and systems were made?
What processes were used?
What questions were answered?
What worked? What didn’t?
How was it evaluated?
What are the implications?
Prepare a summary slide and a one minute video showing its conception, construction, and operation
Your project should incorporate 2D and 3D design,
additive and subtractive fabrication processes,
electronics design and production,
embedded microcontroller design, interfacing, and programming,
system integration and packaging
Where possible, you should make rather than buy the parts of your project
Projects can be separate or joint, but need to show individual mastery of the skills, and be independently operable
Present your final project, weekly and group assignments, and documentation
19.1 Summary slide¶
19.2 Video clip¶
19.3 Check list¶
| Question | Answer |
| What does it do? | It makes a powered flight using a flapping tail fin |
| Who's done what beforehand? | There have been several flapping wing flyers in nature or artificially, but flapping tail fin flyers are scarcey known. Although flapping tail fin swimmers are very popular in the water. |
| What did you design? | Giant flapping tail fin flyer with electric motor |
| What materials and components were used? | Several carbon rods for frame, 3D printed plastic parts for mechanic components, thin plastic film for wing surface, a small electric motor /w gear reduction and linkages for driving a tail fin, a couple of small servo motors, litium polymer battery for a power source, and an integrated electric board for a control |
| Where did it come from? | From the bottom of the deep sea... (swinging tail fin swimmers are very popular in the water) |
| How much did they cost? | Around 100 US$(Ready to Fly) |
| What parts and systems were made? | Several carbon rods for frame, 3D printed plastic parts for mechanic components and a remote controler casing, thin plastic film for wing surface, a small electric motor /w gear reduction and linkages a small servo motor, a litium polymer battery for a power source, and an integrated electric board for a control |
| What processes were used? | 3D CAD, 3D print, PCB CAD, CNC mill, soldering, embedded programming, interface programming, and integrated assembly |
| What questions were answered? | A powered flight using a flapping tail fin was actually possible on our planet |
| How will it be evaluated? | It would become the first time proof of possibility of flapping tail fin flyers |
| What are the implications? | Entirely new flying species emerged on the earth. Their struggle for survival would begin |
| Prepare a summary slide and a one minute video showing its conception, construction, and operation |
Done |
| Your project should incorporate 2D and 3D design, additive and subtractive fabrication processes, electronics design and production, embedded microcontroller design, interfacing, and programming, system integration and packaging |
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes |
| Where possible, you should make rather than buy the parts of your project |
I made the parts of the project as much as possible |
| Present your final project, weekly and group assignments, and documentation |
Presentation of my final project done on June 10 weekly and group assignments, and documentation will be done by June 18 |