November 2018

Bottle Organ: Intermediate Progress Report

Analysis During the visit, our valve mechanism did not work very well. The cardboard flap we had inside the fan duct failed to successfully cut off air flow,…

Intermediate Progress Report: kirmanh + lkendrick

Analysis:   The demo at the Children’s Museum was, if anything, humbling.  Nothing seemed to function as planned and we became very frustrated with not only the physical…

Intermediate Progress Report – Tilting Maze – Henry Zhang & Xueting Li

Analysis Technical Limitations: The only technical limitation we encounter during the trip to the children’s museum is that our battery cannot last for the entire visiting session and…

Intermediate Progress Report – Oliver Terrell & Ronit Banerjee

Analysis: The microphones didn’t pick up some claps, sometimes claps would make the robot drive the wrong way. When it spun after 20s of idle, it really caught…

Laser World

Top: Laser beam working prior to condensation obscuring the acrylic. Bottom: Condensation on top panel hides the laser beam Analysis: Due to the technical limitation of fog condensing…

Reach for the Sky Intermediate Progress Report

Analysis During our visit to the Children’s Museum, we found that we were quite limited by the temporary structure supporting the main mechanism and by the instability of…

Table Soccer Progress Report-Wayne & Vivek

Analysis During our visit to the Children’s Museum, we discovered some limitations of our project. Firstly, the camera didn’t track the ball well due to the change of light….

Magnetic Car Progress Report

Progress Report Justin Kufro Oshada Gunasekara Analysis During our Children’s Museum visit we discovered that our magnet configuration was mostly sufficient to keep the car on the wheel….