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Our Team
Our Team
Our team consists of four members; Alex C., Alex K., Armaan, and Elisabeth. Both Alex C. and Alex K. mainly worked on coding, while Armaan did most of the physics and design, Elisabeth contributed to design and also documented the process. We all contributed to different portions when help was needed!
We chose the name Team Rocket because our first project together as a team was a water balloon drop challenge. We had to build a structure to hold and protect a water balloon from a 1 story drop. Our design looked like a rocket, and since a few of us grew up with Pokémon, we started calling ourselves Team Rocket.
You can visit the Cluster 2 website for more details on the challenge.
Alex C.
Rising senior from Dublin CA. Aspiring engineer interested in creating systems and algorithms.
Alex K.
Rising Junior from Fullerton, CA. Interested in the field of engineering and science.
Armaan
Rising Senior from Chino Hills, CA. Seeking to become a mechanical engineer with an interest in industrial design.
Elisabeth
I am an aspiring engineer from San Diego, CA. I am currently a rising junior and I hope to study at UCLA later on.
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
For us, the most important outcome was to create a mini sculpture that we could build off of for our final sculpture. We wanted something challenging but doable.
Mini Sculpture
Mini Sculpture
This is our first mini sculpture and the beginning of our final sculpture.
Final Sculpture
Final Sculpture
Fully autonomous sculpture with integrated mini sculpture.
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