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Our Team
Our Team
Rhea
Rhea
Ruben
Ruben
Kyle
Kyle
Erin
Erin
What we did:
Rhea: My role consisted of maintaining our website, working on the physics/calculations, and creating flowcharts. I also helped build the physical structure and create designs for the overall sculptures.
Ruben: My role consisted of programming our project and with the design ideas. I also created flowcharts for our programming.
Kyle: My role consisted of planning the concept of the structure, designing, and creating the sculpture itself.
Erin: My role in the group largely consisted of simulating our project on Working Model 2D, as well as helping to design and build the physical sculpture.
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!
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