Marshall

My name is Marshall Smith, I have lived in Darien for the past 2 years. Before living in Darien I lived in Atlanta, GA and North Carolina. I play lacrosse and football for Darien, and tennis and club lacrosse outside of school. I also enjoy being outdoors, camping, and Rock climbing. My interest in sports, specifically lacrosse and tennis, led me to my project.

Michael Yoo is a longtime IDEA parent and first time volunteer, who began his career as a physicist leading R&D efforts in semiconductor nanotechnology. He has spent the past 15 years leading technology consulting and education businesses. He lives with his family in Darien, where all 3 children are attending (or attended) Hindley, MMS, and DHS.

I am also working with Micheal Cantwell.

Looking back on the final project I would say it was a success. While my project did not fully work to the best of its ability, I learned a lot from the building process. I learned skills in electrical engineering, circuit design, and how to more formally contact professionals. I came into this project with no knowledge on my topic and am coming out knowing enough to understand and explain to others. Looking back I would not have chosen this project simply because it was a little hard to do with my skill set. I would have chosen something a little easier just because it came down to the wire with the deadline. Overall I thoroughly enjoyed this project.

For my 5th mini goal I will be finishing my full list of parts for the remaining components and purchasing the parts. I will also be learning to solder and working on aquiring a soldering gun for the last step of my project. If time allows I will start to solder my project.

For my 4th mini goal, I wanted to finish developing my list of parts while further researching Speedometers. I also wanted to purchase the parts and prepare to start building. I accomplished the first three on this list and did not get to start building.

while completing this mini goal I relized that I will need to learn to solder and practice.

For my third mini goal I will be collecting basic research on my new project as well as contacting mentors to learn and gather the background skills I am missing for my project.

Before Thanksgiving I plan to finish researching the physics of the speedometer. Because the speedometer will be attached to the stick it will be moving at a different rate then the ball so I will need to find an equation to convert it. I also want to start acquiring the parts to build.

While completing this mini goal, I hit a roadblock and relized that I would be unable to complete this project. I switched gears but kept the engineering base. I will now be constructing a bike speedometer as my final project.

Researched and a develop a list of parts,

Researched speedometer functions and what allows function on a broad spectrum. I found the parts necessary for any speedometer to work and tried to find a supplement for the small size I am going for. I also created a list of the necessary parts. For more info you can veiw my slideshow on the left.

While completing my first mini goal, I realized that acquiring the right functioning parts would be a lot more difficult than I had first pictured