Notecard Design Cycle Challenge

In this challenge my group members and I worked with only a notecard and 4 inches of tape.  Using the notecard, we divided it into 8 columns measuring one inch tall and rolled up by hand.  Before the availability of using 45 lb plates there were only books.  Our group totaled at 63 books for a total of 188 lbs.  We didn't stop there we took the time we had a made a total of 6 more tests. One with 12 columns, one with 16 columns, two with 8 columns again and two with 5.  the 12 and 16 columns didn't work as well as the 8 and 5 columns tests.  With the last two tries with the 8 columns we didnt seem to break the record of 188. So we moved to 5 columns and reached a total of 250 lbs.  We were triumphant until another group achieved the goal of 308 lbs.  We pushed for another try.  Staying late one day we kept stacking book after book.
Then, it collapsed.  Calculating each section of books and then the
45 lb plates 293 lbs.  15 lbs short but it was an accomplishment.  The columns were crushed and thats how they failed.  If we were allowed more materials then the goal of 500 lbs would be reachable.

Westwood on the Cutting Edge

The project is using the Emotiv with the 3-D Printer.  This would allow people to set up and create images or sculptures in their mind and have it be made using the 3-D Printer.  This will need the classes of computor science and electricity and electronics to be able to understand how these pieces go together.  Putting these inventions together requires percise wire work and the ability to use creative thinking.







Brainstorming by Finbarr Saunders and Zach Ruiz
1) Use Emotiv and x-ray machine to take x-rays with your mind.
2) Use 3-D Printer to make a life size sculture of someone.
3) Use Emotiv and RaspberryPi to make a computor in your mind.
4) Use Emotiv to instant message someone
5) Use Arduino One to customize personal websites fast and easily

innovation

The Gorgon Stare
Sierra Nevada Corp.
March, 2011

The Gorgon Stare is the lastest UAV satelitte for the United States.  It is one of the most valuable assets of the military as it provides an eye in the sky with no human inside the drone.  it has a total of nine cameras on the drone that provide air coverage over the warspace in Afghanistan with live moving pictures that can be of an entire small town.

From previous drone that would only have one camera the Gorgon Stare has nine which provides a wider view.  The new drone has the ability to send sixty five different images to different users across the military and airforce stations across the country.

invention

1854 - Scottish Chemist John Stenhouse
The Gas Mask

Stenhouse's gas mask consisted of various forms of charcoal that he had been experimenting with in the early years of the 1850's.  He used a form of charcoal that was able to capture large amounts of gas which was the first mask that was able to remove any toxic gas that was in the air.  Previous masks were only able to remove small particles.  The mask was built with a powdered charcoal surrounded by two layers of wire gauze that would cover the mouth and nose area of the human who wore it.  The masks purpose was intended for industrial, medical and military but it was a near sixty years before chemical warfare was used on the battle grounds.

The invention of the gas mask was the first step to that when chemical warfare came into play during World War I.  When this time occured the gas mask was able to develope into a new mask that can be mass produced to where even the horses used in the military can have masks to protect them too.  the mask was able to help firefighters going into a burning building could be more protected from the smoke and ash and any other substance that would harm a human if they weren't wearing the mask.