ENGN1000: Projects in Engineering Design 

Project Summary:

My project will kick butt because I am doing something really cool, new, and fun.

Intro:

Here is a brief description of the problem that I am solving with my project:

Blah Blah Blah.

The people who will benefit from this solution are My Friends. I would like to list all of their needs, but for the purpose of this project, I am only going to list the user-needs that I am addressing with my superior engineering talent. These needs are:

• Lighter
• Faster
• Cheaper
• Cooler

Background:

Here is my background research into existing solutions with pictures:

and web links to stuff I've found:

Kipp's projects 

Here is a list of things that I thing are good and bad about existing solutions:

Intellectual Property:

Although I am going to make the best chewing-gum flavoring enhancement, others have applied for patents on some pretty interesting chewing-gum flavor enhancement technologies:

Candy Flavor Chewing Gum. Oh Yeah! 

My Proposed Solution:

Given these drawbacks, I propose the following solution:

Pedal-powered bicycles! How crazy!

This going to be the best thing ever because it is. And some other reasons.

Requirements:

Here are my project

1. Requirements
2. Constraints
3. Evaluation criteria

I'll put my requirements here

First Prototype:

Brainstorms:

Here are the ideas I've come up with to build and test my solutions:

First Prototype: (here are my pictures, videos, schematics, drawings, brainstorm notes, parts list, and gatorade receipts)

 

First Test and evaluation:

 

Component List AND Cost:

1. Knob, Qty. 3, $0.50 each
2. Cardboard, 5 square feet, $12.99
3. Screws, Qty. 20, $0.09 each
4. Total Cost: Priceless

 

 

Results:

My test results stunk because I made the device out of cardboard and it couldn't bear the weight of a fly. But if I make it out of unobtanium, it will rock and roll!

Second Prototype:

Brainstorms:

The first prototype was OK, but I have some better ideas. These ideas are to use a little bit of unobtanium where it broke, but use cardboard everywhere else.

Here are the ideas I've come up with to build and test my solutions:

Second Prototype: (here are my pictures, videos, schematics, drawings, brainstorm notes, parts list, and I stopped drinking gatorate)

 

Second Test and evaluation:

 

Component List AND Cost:

1. Knob, Qty. 3, $0.50 each
2. Cardboard, 5 square feet, $12.99
3. Screws, Qty. 20, $0.09 each
4. Total Cost: Priceless

 

Results:

My test results stunk because I made the device out of cardboard and it couldn't bear the weight of a fly. But if I make it out of unobtanium, it will rock and roll!

 

 

Third Prototype:

Brainstorms:

The second prototype was OK, but I have some better ideas. These ideas are to use a little bit of unobtanium where it broke, but use cardboard everywhere else.

Here are the ideas I've come up with to build and test my solutions:

Third Prototype: (here are my pictures, videos, schematics, drawings, brainstorm notes, parts list, and I now drink red bull)

 

Third Test and evaluation:

 

Component List AND Cost:

1. Knob, Qty. 3, $0.50 each
2. Cardboard, 5 square feet, $12.99
3. Screws, Qty. 20, $0.09 each
4. Total Cost: Priceless

 

Results:

My test results stunk because I made the device out of cardboard and it couldn't bear the weight of a fly. But if I make it out of unobtanium, it will rock and roll!

Final Results:

Since I didn't have all the money to build my ultimate solution, I was only able to give a final demonstration of my excellent machine shop skills. But I do have this nice demo of my project and it's use and operation. My requirements were as follows: it had to be less than 20 kilograms and totally strong. It was 19.8 kilograms, and only broke when subjected to an insanely large load. Check out the cool video of it under load:

I stayed within my project budget also! The total cost of the three prototypes was:

$199.99