Kinetic Sculptures

Our Team: 🔥🔥The Ballers🔥🔥

🔥🔥The Ballers🔥🔥 is a four-member engineer team that has proved its simulation success and mechanical and building skills through numerous projects, such as the Water Balloon Drop in which they were the only team to pass the second floor and not only that, but survive up to the fifth floor, as well as the overall winners of the Balloon Drop presentation out of the whole class. They also prove their skills as individual engineers through the task known as the Pendulum Clock Project, in which each engineer created an oscillating clock that ticks by a spinning force caused by a lowered weight, see Clocks for more information.

🔥🔥The Ballers🔥🔥 start a new challenge this week in which they transport marble balls along a track to reach an endpoint while programming sensors and motors to interact with the marbles. See the Mini Sculptures drop-down above to view our current project!

Bhavana

Hi! I'm Bhavana. Within the team, I worked on the aesthetic design and color scheming of our webpage. I took photos of the process and worked on the Full Structure section of the page. I also helped to install the elevator mechanism, along with creating all the digital sketches for our final structure and working on the WM2D for the sorting mechanism.

I enjoy creating sketches and the isometric drawings the most when it comes to engineering design. I also have experience working with web design, along with Fusion 360 and JavaScript coding language.

Ethan

Cluster 2 student. Within the team, I specialize in organization, W2MD (Working Model 2D), prototype design, risk analysis, and science communication. I create the team's Pugh charts, google slide templates, Gantt chart, built the "death star" mechanism and help design and engineer our projects.

I enjoy the engineering and design process, particularly the early prototyping and idea generation process, which highlights the ideas and insight of each individual team member when approaching a challenging project.

Lochlann

I'm Lochlann, I specialize in Fusion360 and AutoCAD design, mechanical construction, and organizing RobotC code within sensors. Within our team, I focus on Fusion360, the physical building of kinetic structures, troubleshooting, and analyzing code for flow charts. I contribute my years of experience in engineering to my team by leading specific projects, creating logical and realistic designs, as well as improving the design as we build.

Maddie

I'm Maddie, I specialize in mechanical construction, python code, building with LEGOs and prototype design digitally and physically. Throughout the cluster, I learned how to make digital models in W2MD, how to write Cpython code, as well as how to mathematically calculate velocity within that language, and integrating it into our sculpture.

I provide creative ideas for the team and outweigh the risks and advantages of those designs, such as sketching the foundation of the marble sorting design. On the other hand, I also helped outline and build the physical kinetic structure as well as its digital prototype in Working Model 2D. In addition, I wrote the entire code for the light sensor, the motor, and the touch sensor, creating an autonomous and manual control for our structure.

Aside from the technology aspect, I also support my team by making sure everyone has a job that demonstrates their strengths while challenging them.

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!

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