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Cookies project

This cookie is called a peanut butter blossom and making them is very simple. First, you preheat your oven to 350-375. nest mix flower crown sugar, sugar, baking soda, salt shortening peanut butter, milk vanilla, and eggs. Then make 1 inch balls and put them on a cookie sheet. when done baking put Hershey’s kiss on top of the cookie then wait for them to cool. Then your good to eat.

This cookie is very easy and I would suggest making them if you ever are short on time for something and you need to make cookies.

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Bridge Project

INTRO

In this project, we were asked to make a bridge out of 5 balsa sticks and glue only. you had to design a bridge with onshape then print put a blueprint of it and build it off that. once you had built your bridge and glued it you had to wait at least a day for the glue to dry then we could test how much weight our bridge could hold. we put our bridge on a miniature abutment and attached a crane scale with a bucket at the bottom and scooped sand into it until our bridges broke.

Inception and Drafting

I chose this bridge design because it seemed simple to make and had the potential to hold a lot of weight. Drawing it in onshape wasn’t too difficult I mostly just drew what I wanted and then dimensioned it after I had finished it. The part that was hard was making sure I had enough wood to actually build the bridge

Bridge Building Phase

The steps to make the bridge were to 1. Make a model using onshape of your bridge, 2. print out a scaled blueprint of the bridge, 3. Cut your wood and line up the pieces with the paper, 4. glue everything together, 5. make another side to your bridge, 6. glue support beams in between the two sides, wait for everything to dry, and then you’re done.

Destruction Phase

Testing my bridge didn’t go too well for me. I had glued the support beams in a very slight slant so that caused my bridge to just fold and slip out of the bridge abutment. It only held 5 kilograms before it fell but I think that if I had glued the beams correctly it could’ve held a lot more weight

  1. CONCLUSION
  2. How many members does your bridge have? 46
  3. How many nodes does your bridge have? 26
  4. How many linear inches of balsa wood were used to make your bridge? 180 inches
  5. What was the weight (N) of your bridge (remember, weight is a force due to gravity and F=ma)?144
  6. How much weight (N) did you test your bridge to and did you test to destruction? 1.412064N
  7. What was the strength to weight ratio (max load (N)/ weight of bridge (N)) of your bridge, 34.722
  8. Plot load (N) versus deflection (mm) for your bridge. 
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Stool project

For this project, we were given __ by __ to make a stool. The stool I made was pretty simple so it didn’t take long. The steps to make the stool were to create a 3d model of your stool in Sketchup. Two draw blueprints on paper of your stool. Three starts cutting your pieces and then put them together to make your stool.

Some things that went well were making the drawing in SketchUp, I had a very simple stool so that didn’t take long to make, putting my pieces together went very smoothly as well. because I had so few pieces. nothing really was difficult in this process so have nothing to write about that

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Sketchup Room

In this assignment, we were told to make a 3D model of one of the rooms in our houses. I chose to make a room from my basement. This task wasn’t too difficult to complete it was mostly just learning how to use SketchUp that was hard. The steps I did to complete this were, one measure the room in my basement, two get on SketchUp, and start to create a room with the measurements I got. three add the door and windows and four recheck everything.

Some things that went pretty well were measuring the room at my house. It wasn’t very hard to just use a tape measure and measure the walls. Although doing it on every single wall was kinda annoying. Something that was hard was getting SketchUp to actually make the room correctly, I’m not sure why it kept messing up the walls and it was very hard to get correct.

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The Claw Project

The Claw Project was a project where we build a hydraulic arm out of laser-cut pieces of wood and tubes with water and syringes on the ends. we used the syringes with water to move the arm with the pressure. I completed this project by getting all the parts and putting them on a placemat we were giving with a list of parts we needed. Then I started to configure the base and build up from there. Once I finished building the arm I began to put water in the syringes and tubes. After that, I made a few adjustments to the bolts and screws on the arm to make it rotate and move better, But after that, I had finished the project.

Making all the parts fit together was a struggle sometimes because the laser cutter sometimes didn’t make the cuts right and I had to hot glue parts together. Another part of this project that was hard was putting the water in the tubes. To do it properly you had to get all the air out from the tube and then put water in it and it took a long time to get that done. I failed at this many times but I eventually somehow did it. A thing that went well was getting all the parts. I was surprised by myself that I was able to get everything without actual instructions to follow. Building everything was fairly easy for me as well. The only annoying part of the building was when I had to glue things but other than that I was able to build and complete it with very few mistakes.

Here are some progression photos