Project Proposal
Our goal was to see if the my generation is ready for the technology era. We wanted to see if people preferred the traditional way of playing chess or if they liked the mechanical way of doing it. Our mechanical chess board is a simple XYZ plotter where the X and Y are on two motors running on simple pulleys and the Z is a pneumatic piston with an electromagnet on the end. Each game piece has a metal rod running through it. The electromagnet drops down and picks up a single piece then moves it to the desired destination.
Research and Bibliography
Our research consisted of surveys that we acquired though testing at AMES. Below is the survey we had all the participants fill out.
Journal/Logs
9-12: First meeting with mentor and got it signed off
9-26: Second meeting with mentor. Prepare survey, write introduction letter, make sure board is test ready,
9-28: Spent the day testing the board at home to make sure it was ready for others to test it
12-5: Third meeting with mentor. Started testing and discovered the board had previously undiscovered issues.
12-7: Spent the day fixing all the known issues with the board.
12-19: Resumed testing the board at school. We discovered other issues that needed to be fixed.
1-11: Spent the day fixing all the known issues with the board.
2-26: Decided against testing at other schools as well due to time constraints.
3-1: Attempted to fix the board for the last time but discovered it was more expensive than it was worth. Compiled the final results.
9-26: Second meeting with mentor. Prepare survey, write introduction letter, make sure board is test ready,
9-28: Spent the day testing the board at home to make sure it was ready for others to test it
12-5: Third meeting with mentor. Started testing and discovered the board had previously undiscovered issues.
12-7: Spent the day fixing all the known issues with the board.
12-19: Resumed testing the board at school. We discovered other issues that needed to be fixed.
1-11: Spent the day fixing all the known issues with the board.
2-26: Decided against testing at other schools as well due to time constraints.
3-1: Attempted to fix the board for the last time but discovered it was more expensive than it was worth. Compiled the final results.
Final Project
Our final product changed quite a bit. The biggest thing that changed was the gauge of the wire. All of the wire was too small and it just fried and burned all the internal wiring. We had to change all the wire to a thicker gauge.
Demonstrate Understanding
Below are the results of the surveys we asked people to take along with the average value for the rating, standard deviation, minimum, and maximum values. We also organized these results by the explanation and suggestions.
Grade
11 9 10 10 9 10 10 11 10 9 10 9 Min: Max: |
Score
5 3 4 5 4 4 3 4 5 3 4 4.5 3 5 |
Explaination
fun had a few issues improve design inconsistent magnet pick up inconsistent magnet pick up inconsistent magnet pick up & couldn't see slow and hard to select piece slow and hard to select piece well designed well designed well designed well designed |
Suggestions
the magnet smoked fix it so it doesn't fall apart better magnet better magnet over travel of motors laser pointer over travel of motors slow and hard to select piece make faster over travel of motors & better magnet over travel of motors & better magnet servo gripper not magnet |