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Our Team
Our Team
Hello! We are team Rowe Rowe Rowe de Callafon from Cluster 2. Our members consist of a wide variety of skillsets and our names are Daniel, Connor, Colin, Yeschua. Our team name was inspired by our professors that taught us all the various bits of physics, mechanical systems, coding, and mathematics: Mr. Rowe and Professor de Callafon. The inspiration of the name was purely because while working together on a project, we all began singing the song "Row Row Row Your Boat" and we all knew exactly what we wanted our team name to be. Our team has gone through the process of designing, analyzing, and constructing different moving mechanical systems working together. Connor is the coding wiz kid of the group, making all of our silly ideas come to life with the lego NXT. Colin loves to think of new ideas and persists to make them come to life. Daniel loves to refine something until it's perfect. Yeschua is always there when you need him for everything. Us four unlikely team members have given everything to create new and captivating designs.
Kinetic Sculptures
Kinetic Sculptures
Our team members learned how to design, analyze, fabricate and control several kinetic sculptures! The kinetic sculptures include individual Pendulum Clocks, a controlled Mini Sculpture and an automated Full Sculpture created by our team.
Design was facilitated with Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools implemented in Fusion and AutoCAD.
Analysis of the dynamics of movement of the sculptures is based on fundamental physics with the mathematical description of motion covered in lectures and simulations facilitated by Working Model 2D (WM2D).
Fabrication is done both manually in the Dept. of MAE Design Studio and automated with Computer Aied Manufacturing (CAM) tools provided by the LaserCAMM and optional 3D printing, initiated by a Clock Project.
Additional motion control is added to our kinetic sculptures by using Lego NXT sensors, including our specially designed COSMOS ball speed sensor, NXT motors and programming an NXT using RobotC.
Our team webpage gives a summary of both our individual and team effort to make our kinetic sculptures work as designed!
Accomplishments
Accomplishments
The biggest takeaway from this project was teamwork. Every member of the group had different strengths and weaknesses, and when we combined our efforts it made for a productive and collaborative experience. Our team dynamic can be categorized as organized chaos...did we know what we were doing? No. Did we plan ahead? No. Did we pursue things without considering downsides? Absolutely. And did it all work out in the end? Kind of (suprisingly). The team had more of a "go with the flow" type approach, ie: just doing things that worked and always pushing through. As our sculpture rose, our confidence continued to dwindle, however we made it out in the end. We learned that often it isnt the outcome that's the most important, but the learning it took to get there.
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