156B Week 1

Overview of Status of Analysis, Design, Fabrication, Tests, etc.

• • Need to decide how each part will be made and how they will fit together

  • Will begin fabrication in next two weeks after design finalization

Accomplishments from Previous Week

• • Risk Reduction from Final week of 156A

Goals for Next Week (list names after each item). Use specific and measurable objectives.

• • Finalized design of wind tunnel (all team meeting, Emilio-Solidworks design)

    • How each portion will be built

    • How the pieces will come together, and be broken apart (for fly extraction)

  • Have raw materials ready for order (Harry)

    • Clear Acryllic for tunnel

    • Any other parts that are easily accessible

      • Arduino

      • 12V Fan

Sponsor Comments from Last Meeting and Actions Taken to Address these Comments (indicate date of comments and if via email or in person)

• • No comments yet

  • Information given by sponsor on equipment used in previous experiments in the lab

    • TI Lightcrafter 4500, projector used in current fruit fly experiments, but may be too weak/small for use in this endeavor

Instructor Comments from Last Meeting and Actions Taken to Address these Comments (indicate date of comments and if via email or in person)

• • Comments on: 3/12/15 in person

  • Making flow more laminar using honeycomb

    • Consideration if required later in tunnel, unable to add honeycomb to simulation as of now

  • Use of Arduino PWM for fan

    • code written, fan not purchased yet

Comments from Other Students in the Class (indicate date of comments and if via email or in person)

• • N/A

Risks and Areas of Concern

• • Fabrication of tunnel

    • will it be perfect enough to be airtight where need be?

      • perhaps rubber stoppers

    • will it be easily opened for fly extraction

    • durability

      • opening, closing multiple times.

Resources or Information Required but not Available

• • how previous selection experiment wind tunnels were built

    • we have scholarly articles about their use and results, but not on construction/drawbacks of their design, etc.

    • one group hired a 3rd party to build their tunnel

    • Engineering Lab Design (http://www.eldinc.com)

Schedule

• • Finalizing design of tunnel for fabrication

  • Utilization of component analysis for possible early purchase of fan and projector

Budget (list amount spent and amount remaining)

• • None spent

Progress on Report and Webpage

• • No work on report

  • Webpage

    • background/objective of main page drafted

    • images for interest and proposed design images needed

    • Team members page in progress,

      • functional email link

      • temporary profile pictures

      • contact information complete

    • Internal page

      • team given text colors