Posts filed under “Power”
Fisting
Sorry, I don’t know who took the picture above, but I love it. This is the story of the much anticipated, hyper publicized and brutally witnessed demise of team Back Off slash Golden Fist slash Golden Chariot slash Future Yacht or something. Our team: Noah Waxman, Michael Rosen, Mindy Tchieu, Bobby Genalo, Scott Wayne Indiana, […]
Spring Steel Coil Powered Mechanism
While we were brainstorming on ways to power our car I did some research on using the spring steel coil method of powering a car, where a coil of spring steel is rolled up, and wound tightly, so when released it quickly uncoils, and propels the car forward. This system is frequently used in toy […]
Shade Powered Tape Player
Our assignment was to apply a reversed dc permanent magnet motor generator to something, so to create something you can manually power. I decided to use a roll up shade. In our classroom there are very large shades that are open and closed by pulling on a circular chain. Therefore the power is transferred from […]