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Our Team
Our Team
The "Baskettes" team consists of Emily, Jacob, Shruti, and Zoe. All team members worked on every aspect of the process to create a successful mini sculpture. We divided work when required during building based on the individual strengths of each team member. Our team's name came from one of our sculpture's objectives which was to get the ball to land in a basket and was inspired by the Rockettes.
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 Aided 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
Throughout the camp, we worked on 3 things together: the water balloon drop challenge, a mini-sculpture, and the full sculpture. We all individually also created a pendulum based clock.
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