CP5065-2022-2A01-Brice-Leong

Hello everyone! Welcome back to my learning journey! Today I will be covering the shooting and loading mechanism of my group's ping pong ball launcher and my experience making a game involving a marble ball with cardboard in practical 4. Operating Principle and Mechanism Design When my lecturer mentioned that the topic of the lesson was Mechanism Design and Operating Principle, I had a rough idea of what we would be learning for the Mechanism Design part, but when it came to Operating Principle, I was completely lost. Firstly, I learnt about what Operating Principle meant, and how it was applicable in my everyday life. Operating Principle, basically meant the theory which makes things work the way they do. For example, most devices are designed based on principles that are either mechanical, electrical or chemical, such as in car or smartphones, electrical principles are used to make them work. Next, we went through the concept of Mechanism Design. Mechanism refers to something tha...

Welcome back everyone! This blog will be a step-by-step tutorial on how to use the software for 3D printing and the 3D printer itself. So let's get started!     Step 1: Exporting fusion file to STL Step 2: Using Cura to convert STL file to a file readable by the 3D printer          Start by selecting the model of the printer and upload the STL file          Then slice the model by pressing the "slice" button on the bottom right Step 3: save the file onto a thumb drive Step 5: Insert thumb drive to 3D printer Step 6: Prepare filament for 3D printing Step 6: Choose the file using the printer's user interface. Here are the finished renders of the designs! Lastly here's the video of my egg drop

 Welcome back! Sorry for the period of no updates as shortly after where I had left off, the looming end of semester tests was happening. As such I had to prepare for that which left me with no time to put together a blog on what I have done. As such I am quite enthusiastic about this blog as I have not written in a while. In today's blog post I will be covering 2 lessons where I have learnt about materials for design (MFD), design for materials (DFM) and sustainable design. So let's get right into it. Up first is MFD. MFD was a module I had taken in year 1, due to that fact, the concepts taught this time around were a breeze to absorb and served as a nice refresher and reminder that concepts from other modules will be applicable in the course. As a summary, MFD is a process where an end result is desired  aka a design and materials are selected based on the requirements of the design. For material selection we need to understand the 4 categories they are divided into. Mechani...

Sketch of coffee machine practising 2 point sketching practising 2 point sketching practising sketching practising 1 point sketching Chemical product sketch from COWS Overall, for Practical 2, I feel that my group did very well, and we were pretty well coordinated when executing the production of our cardboard prototype. We made a vending machine, which was able to dispense another separate piece of cardboard to demonstrate that the prototype worked, and as such, it went as well as we hoped it could have. I’m really proud of how our group did, considering we didn’t have a sketch of an idea for what we were going to make, considering that we actually did not have any idea what we were going to make prior to entering the lab, and so we came up with an idea on the fly.  There weren’t any real disagreements while we were making our cardboard prototype. However, we did have conflicting ideas when we were first coming up with an idea for what we were going to make. Once we had decided on...

  SCAMPER Table  Original Idea that SCAMPER was applied on: A device that has containers for extraction of citrus skin fragrance using ethanol solvent (solvent extraction method) and drying process of the skin to be done with the help of a fan (mechanical dryer). New idea from the application of SCAMPER  S/No  Brief Description of Idea (Include sketches, if appropriate)  SCAMPER   Word used E.g.  Curry puff skin but substitute the curry potato fillings to custard  Substitute 1 Using distillation method to extract the fragrance Substitute 2 Using a cold press method to extract the fragrance Substitute 3 Using hydrodiffusion to extract the fragrance Substitute  4 Adding rubber seals on the lid to make the container airtight Modify 5 Eliminating the mechanical drying and sun drying the citrus skin peel Eliminate Feasibility Analysis Idea : Using distillation method to extract the fragrance YES  NO Budget - Less than S$2000? ✔ Project T...