8 Foot Bridge Project
In this project we were assigned to use our skills from the previous truss project and form a super group to make one super 8 foot bridge. The first step of this project was to find quality true raiders to collaborate and develop an idea for a super bridge. My "A-Team" of sorts consisted of fellow classmates Alec Martin, Ferris Costa, and Noah Julius. We combined our genius minds and we thought of the idea of a super arch bridge. The first steps of this project was to create the two side arches. After we conquered this by table sawing wood and using the yellow glue, we then had to make the I-Beams for the bottom. After we put the I-Beams on it was time to test our project. Although we put in a lot of work and effort, our project still failed and broke. We did not get upset though and like True Raiders, we realized that it doesn't always hurt to fail, "to first succeed you must fail."
Ree-Bar Concrete Project
I apologize that I can not provide a picture of my project because I did not get a good snapshot of it in time. This is the best picture I found on google and it is basically the same thing as my project. To do this project we first had to think and come up with an idea and specifically a drawing. The door in my room in my garage is never staying open so I hypothesized the idea of creating a doorstop. After my drawing was passed through, I then needed to use my skills from the first concrete project we did and create a concrete slab that could be used as a doorstop. But wait there is a special ingredient. And that special ingredient was the ree-bar. What the ree-bar did was create a solid inner core so if dropped from any heights, the concrete would not break. This also allowed it to not be easily broken. I still have my doorstop in my locker but I look to bring it home soon to use it efficiently in my garage.
Musical Instrument Project
What looks like a regular PBC pipe is in-fact what I like to call my maraca. The creation of my maraca was actually quite simple. First I found a wide enough PBC pipe to handle the amount of rocks from the concrete dish that I would be using. The goal of this project was to make a beautiful sound with an instrument that you create that can also fit inside of one of the engineering design rooms lockers. After I found a PBC Pipe with a perfect width, I used the circular saw to cut out an exact foot of PBC pipe. Then I created two circular wooden barricades to put inside of the pipe to enclose on the rocks. I placed several of the rocks in then glued in the circular wooden barricades and boom, I had myself a Maraca which made a beautiful sound.