Our week consisted of making a capacitor plane, a rocket, a foam plane and a foam rocket as well as an Arduino backed carbon capture device

On the first day, we were designing a foam plane as well as developing a rudimentary rocket that was powered by a gush of air trapped inside a plastic water bottle and these activities allowed us to explore and understand the principles of rocket and airplane design. 

Drone Coding

With the drone given to us, the main thing that was required was to develop a code and program it with the drone to make it autonomous to the best of our abilities.

During the testing of this code, we realized that the drone followed the instructions a few times however it was not consistent and that meant that there were some flaws with our code that meant that our drone was not 100% reliable. 

Another project that we had to undertake was developing a carbon capture device based off an Arduino board and an air quality sensor powered by a laptop. 

After that, the code was designed in order for the device to be autonomous and self sufficient. The constant testing of the air would make it more efficient as per the use case. 

The testing proved very reliable data and this meant that the code was working at times. A problem that we were constantly facing was the connection issue between the laptop and the device however it used to work whenever it got connected. There might be an underlying connection issue but we didnt know where and how to adddress it. 

Another thing was designing the model on TinkerCAD to have a digital design of the model.

Another component within our project was simulating a 3 stage rocket design on Rocksim to understand the principles of aerodynamics and rocket design. Our simulation allowed us to understand those concepts and apply it in our designs.

The main project that displayed our understanding of airplane design, we developed a plane that was powered by a capacitor. 

We followed the steps that was in our kit from the starting to finish. 

We made the cone that was developed through a series of cutting and sanding down.

The fins were designed after various tests and we ended up on a parallelogram shape and 3 fins as that meant equal weight distribution and less weight added through the addition of fins. 

The body was made with the base of a PVC pipe and solidified by paper, tape and glue.

We had 2 tests conducted and while the height increased, the parachute was not able to open in time due to the increased tension within the system.

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