Wednesday, April 27, 2011

T minus 5, 4, 3, 2, 1....

Quantum Imports Chewing Gum Shape Mini Stick DVR Camera - 4GB

  • Quantum Imports Chewing Gum Shape Mini Stick DVR Camera
    • small. almost wightless making not effect the flight path that much
    • easy to use. basicly only 3 buttons.
    • built in camera
    • just duck tape to rocket for a recorded flight
  • Thats why i think this would be a successful camer to use during rocket flight and was a probably used during the video.

Monday, April 11, 2011

Glider Challenge: Deliverables

Ours is the Orange one. The other planes are our competition.
















Design Process to Test day
         -Came up with 3 designs during our brainstorm session
         -We chose one that would be easy to build and in our opinion would fly pretty decently compared to our other 2 designs
         -Built and rebuilt and redesigned as obsticles came up
                  -such as breaking, glue drying capabilities and weight
         -Tested and again redesigned our plane
                  -we had to put a weight on it and then take some off as it became to heavy
         -Competition day, 2nd in distance, 4th in flight time.

<--design notes


Redesigns:
          -weight in the front to keep it moving down and not flipping upwards
                  -Kept it from not nose diving as much as ours did
          -replaced wings. The wings kept breaking so we replaced them

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

engineering program investigation




College/University of interest: MIT

Why does this institution appeal to you?:
-This college interests me because I want to become some sort of engineer and this is an engineering school.

Which engineering program is most interesting to you and why?:
-The nanotechnology program is most interesting to me because I have never heard of it before so I was really intrigued by the program.

Which undergraduate engineering elective is most interesting? Describe the course and its appeal to you:       -Nanotech. because again I have never heard of it.
-This course includes developing Nanotech. for millitary and medical uses. For the millitary the interest lies in the kind of body armer they would have created.
-I really don't have an interest in medical purposes but it was part of the course description.