Week 5

IDEATION

Tell us about your assignment's idea for this week. Why do you care about this idea? What inspired you?

(Please include images or links to sources of inspiration)

My Idea For this week is to make a mill tower using Cardboard to make the mill structure, DC motor to make the fan, switch to turn it on/off, green led to refer if it on/off and 220 Ohm Resistor to protect the led

I chose this idea because I love mills a lot

Tool Chain

Which software/machines/materials did you use in the assignment? Why?

Softwares

To Design the Circuit

Screen Recording

Components

DC Motor

Breadboard

Switch on/off

9V Adaptor

Green Len

220 Ohm Resistance

Cardboard

Wires

Tools

Glue Gun

Scissors

Cutter

Design/Preparation Process

Explain the design and/or preparation process of your assignment. How did you use the tool or software to design and/or prepare your assignment before fabrication/implementation?

Circuit Design onTinkerCad

1- Inputs

ON/OFF Switch (on TinkerCad there is no on/off switch so I used the push button instead of it )

2- Outputs

DC Motor
LED

3- Why did I choose these components and materials?

- The DC motor: is used to drive the mill tower and simulate the grinding of grains.
- The LED: is used to indicate when the mill tower is in operation or to provide other useful information.
- 9V Power Supply: I chose the 9V power supply for my project based on the voltage requirements of the components I used in the circuit. DC motor typically requires a higher voltage to operate efficiently, and a 9V power supply can provide sufficient voltage to power the motor (when I used the 5V power supply, the motor didn't run at high RPM)
Cardboard is a great material to use for this project because it is lightweight, easy to work with, and readily available.

3- How does it Work?

When the button is pressed or be ON, the circuit is activated, causing the LED to light up and the motor to spin

4- Why I wired Them In Series?

Wiring components in series means that the current flowing through each component is the same, and the voltage is divided between the components. In other words, the voltage drop across the motor and LED will be shared between them. This can be useful in some cases

also, I chose to wire them in series to limit the current flowing through the LED

Overall, this project is an example of how simple materials can be used to create functional and informative structures. It also demonstrates the principles of mechanical engineering and the use of motors and LEDs in practical applications.

Circuit design Mill Tower | TinkercadCircuit design Mill Tower created by 180212FYD92 with Tinkercad

Development/Implementation Process

Explain the development/implementation process of your assignment. How did you use the machine/tool to manufacture or implement the design of your assignment?

1- Structure Cardboad Cutting

Starting By Cutting outer frame

1- two equal rectangulares represent the tower sides

2- two equal irregular shapes to make it easy lets say they are two rectanguler with non equal Widths the upper widths smaller than the lower

Then assembly them together

After assembly the frame I put piece of cardboard to put the the breadboard on it

Mounting the propeller using glue gun

Cutting the propellers, i used just two of them for aesthetic form

2- Electric Circuit Connection

First I connect the led on the breadboard

I used crocodile wires to lengthen the led legs to be able to put it at the interface to the tower

Then I connected the whole circuit together

1-The negative of led negative is connected to crocodile wire connected to jumper wire connected with one side of resistor on the breadboard and the other side connected with jumper wire to the negative from the power supply ith the resistor

2- the led positive leg ( the tallest) with motor positive together on the crocodile wire connected to one leg of the switch

3- Negative of power supply is on negative on breadboard

the positive is conected to the other leg of switch

Then i fixed the motor on the 4th side of the frame

i used the double face to fix it

( gule is not allowable with the electrical components )

Put the Switch and make rectangular hole for it

Put the power supply at the back of the tower and make hole for it

Mounting the motor with the propeller

I used a small thin piece of wood and string and tied it to the motor

for the propeller side, I make a hole in the middle of the propeller and fill this hole with glue then put the wood

This is not a 100% Structure operation, so I postponed it for a moment to connect the circuit to see where I will put the motor.

3- Testing Circuit Before final Assembly

testing.mov

Put all components into the tower

(don't forget to test whole circuit before close the tower)

Overcome Challnges

What kinds of challenges or problems did you face while doing the assignment, tutorials, or exercises? How did you solve them? Did you ask for help from an instructor or peer? Please provide a link to the tutorial or article that you used to solve your problem (if any)

I faced some challenges in this project

It was not easy to connect the motor to the fan, it was not fixed as required, but after several attempts, it became stable with it

I didn't know how to turn on the LED outside the breadboard to show it in front of the mill

As usual, Engineer/ Menna Elbadry helped me with that and told me to use Crocodile Wires to lengthen her legs outside the breadboard

When I added the LED at first, it did not work. I uninstall and installed it several times, and each time I do not know the reason, but in the, end I discovered that the edges of the LED touched together because of the crocodile wires , I but the away of each other and it worked at the end

Final Project

How can you use the skills and knowledge that you've acquired this week in your final project?

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WOW!

What is the coolest thing that you've learned this week? What is something that you will never forget from this week?

Sumo Car Fight

This week we did one of the best activities in the diploma

It is a sumo car fight

My team this week was Abdul Rahman and Mayar, they were great and we did a great job as well

In the end we lost, but it was a great experience

The challenge in this experiment is to make sure of the four Push buttons (For Each Motor) that you will control in the motor are fixed well in the breadboard and to check the wires.

Also, make sure that the two motors work with the same efficiency. We had the left motor working less efficiently than the other. This may cause an obstacle in moving smoothly.

Assignment Design Files

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