Organize it!: Title your post and organize it by section in a logical manner.

Brainstorm!: Provide at least four of your team’s brainstorming ideas for the design solution. This should include brainstorming sketches. Each sketch should include labels and descriptions for communication.

MACHINE 1

MACHINE 2

MACHINE 3

MACHINE 4

Enter the Matrix: Evaluate your solution ideas (4 minimum) using a decision matrix. Determine the best solution to the problem. Explain your rating system and share insight on why you rated your solutions as you did.

Design Solution( Machine 3 design): Create a detailed pictorial sketch or use 3D modeling software to document the best solution, based upon your team’s decision matrix. Your sketch or 3D model should include a rationale for the design selected as the final design solution. Each sketch should include labels and descriptions for communication.

"I've Made a Few Special Modifications...": Document modifications made to your design during implementation. Explain the reason for the modifications and describe how the new design solution will solve the problem. "Story" is the split between expectation and outcome. Tell us a story regarding what your plan was and how it actually came out! Use photos and sketches to call out three changes. (Nerd points if you know where the quote for this Achievement title comes from)

One of our main modifications was puting magnets at the end of the ramp in order to get the metal marble with the magnet instead of the color sensor. This allowed us to use light to sort wood as metal and wood both let 0 light by.
(Han Solo.)

Final Implementation - Video!: Embed a video that showcases your solution in action!

Reflection: Adress the four feedback types that we use in our courses (+, -, ?, !). Solicit feedback from someone outside of your team as well.
Some questions to consider in this section: How well did you accomplish your objectives? What would your team do differently with your design solution and why? Do the results fulfill the problem statement? Provide a brief explanation of what you learned, the challenges of working in a design team, and the purpose of the design problem.
+: It is compact, and we probably used the least amount of parts. It has a simple design.
- : might take a long time to sort, needs to much programing.
? : Could making it bigger make it easier, could using pistons be easier than motors.
! : Make it bigger!!, use pistons for the sorting(faster).

Reference: Post a hotlink to material you referenced on the internet. Explain why this information is significant to your project.


Product Achievements:

Marble Sorting (some achievments scored multiple times):
Sort one marble (x1)
Sort two marbles (x1)
Sort three marbles (x1)
Sort four marbles (x1)


Marble Delivery (may use non-fischertechnik materials to create a "hopper" to drop marbles into for "Drop" achievements):
Drop marbles from 6" above machine
Drop marbles from 1' above machine
Drop marbles from 2' above machine
Drop marbles from 6' above machine



Systems (not including motor or piston used to charge your pressure vessel):
Use one piston
Use two pistons
Use pneumatics but less than three pistons

Use at least one motor

Flow Charting

 

Here are some questions and answers about flowcharting:

1. How is flowcharting similar to using a map to plan a route for a trip?

It shows you how to get around obsacles.

2. Describe a process that you perform every day. Develop a flowchart that illustrates the process

Choosing what to wear when getting ready for school.

Variable Loops

Conclusion questions:

1. Describe how you might modify the Plus command so that it can reset a variable block to 0 within a program.

The Plus command so that the variable block would reset to zero by changing the Plus command to a Minus command, and change the variable so that the variable would deplete to 0 once the variable reaches the minus step.

2. What might an industrial or manufacturing engineering need to count or keep track of? Describe one example.

Industrial or manufacturing engineering needs to keep track of is the amount of products produced in the end and during the process. Variable loops are necessary to keep track of product amount without having the need to count each seperate product.

Open and Closed Loop Systems

Open and Closed Loop Systems

Conclusion questions:
1. Describe an open loop system that has not already been given as an example. Could the system benefit from feedback? Justify your answer.

A microwave, because the appliance has a program that starts and stops at the time given to it. This system could benefit from feedback becasue if the system has something like a heat sensor, then the microwave oven will be able to sence when the object has heated up to a certain degree of temperature.

2. Describe a closed loop system that has not already been given as an example. Describe the feedback utilized, and describe why that type of feedback is utilized.

A light sensor. The feedback utilized for the light sensor is that it turns on when motion is detected, and when there is no motion for a while then it turns off. The reason why the type of feedback is utilized is to save money for keeping the lights on, helps to conserve power, and for the convenience of the people that are in the room at the moment.