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4 Second Semester Projects (Link to Slide Show) 

Introduction Slide Show Explaining the Four Second Semester Projects

DCSD STEAM Letters

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We have been asked to design, create a budget, and build free standing STEAM letters and include DCSD, our school district. We have added a storage box, and will attempt to make the letters, stands, and add-ons as flat-pack as possible. The idea is that these letters will be used at various conferences. 

We have worked through several ideas and are currently working under the title, "Rolling through STEAM in DCSD" and will have various marble run elevators, drops, and lifts connecting the STEAM letters rolling through a variety of other letter add-ons standing for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Maths and Medicine. We want the entire design to fit in a 6-foot conference table. If the design is interesting but also interactive. 

Each Student is to Complete this Assignment.

  1. Research assigned pieces for budget proposal. 
  2. Pick 1 Difficult Add On known as a Marble lift, elevator, or similar. (5 hours design, build, test)
  3. Pick 2 Easy Add-On Projects   Pick 2 Easy Add-On Projects (2 hours design, build, test)

Add On Idea Generators & Budget -- As you research your ideas, note the costs and what your idea might do to the budget. Can anything pull double duty?

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This column is for students to begin their research of ideas for Add-Ons. We are high school students in a level 3 CTAE Engineering course. We are not going to limit ourselves to sticking on flat objects that are real of models of real objects. That would be too simplistic for high school students. 

Start with cardboard ideas such as this marble run -- LINK
Then get fancy and watch a tutorial with groovy music on bending metal tracks and using a soldering iron...LINK

Still not inspired? Peek at the Things to FInish on the Budget, then the Ideas for Addons...there's definitely something for a level 3 Engineering student.
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 Three Budget Proposal LINK

Things to finish on the budget

  1. Budget -- The metal hardware needs to be added...Qty to be determined later.
  2. Budget - hand tools need to be added. Some hand tools can be for display purposes for Add-Ons. (SCREWDRIVERS, SMALL WRENCHES, levels, speed-square, plumb bobs, compass, protractor, flat pencil from HD/Lowes, small tape measure, magnetic levels (for display add-on,  

Ideas for Addons

  1. 2x4 models of a framing job - similar to a bridge build - can show off (plum, level, and square)
  2.  - https://www.facebook.com/reel/814085266368228?fs=e&s=TIeQ9V&mibextid=0NULKw 
  3. DIY Automatata, DIY Automata 2
  4. Civil Engineering Ideas (Kiwi Crates)
  5. Marble Run (Physics) - KiwiCrates)
  6. chameleon automaton,
  7. bird,
  8. balancing desk with sticks (anti gravity build)
  9. small bird,
  10. jump rope,
  11. swinging sticks,
  12. Maxwell’s Wheel,
  13. marble pump,     
  14. Pendalum
  15. modeling natural selection
  16. Floating Hourglass / Floating Thermometer
  17. slinky
  18. tesselation tiles & small design for M or A
  19. tangram (composition and decomposition of shapes)
  20. Cuissainare Rods and/or Lego demo of fractions
  21. random demonstration modeller --  Plinko type device that is able to rotate to show random "bbs" fall into a Bell Shaped Curve--probably 3D printed and acrylic, or possibly wood and pegs.
  22. pendulum snake
  23. Construct a tower to make the letter T - like a bridge or scaffolding...metal or plastic "sticks" in ratio of 2"x4"s. Possible connectors 3D printed...like a straw connector.
  24. AdaFruit Pybadge + mount + game/message -- 
  25. Adafruit Edgebadge + mount + game/message + AI voice response (Hello GoodBye)
  26. two parabolic mirrors creating a 3D image - not a hologram
  27. abacus (Japanese model, pipe cleaner? wood, etc)
  28. cloud model
  29. solar system
  30. bones of leg/knee & clay tendons, muscles, joints
  31. drawing model/doll (people and hand)
  32. "A" curtain/balcony for Romeo & Juliette Balcony
  33. comedy and tragedy masks
  34. Music Notes
  35. Marble run could hit bells, Xylophone bars, or just metal plates.
  36. Check out the old VEX machine that has parts that can be repurposed.

What are these scientists famous for? How can it be modeled?

(start here)

  1. Galileo Galilei - pendulum and the clock & objects of different weights fall at same rate in vacuum

  2. Archimedes - buoyancy & several inventions like the Archimedes screw. Link

  3. Nicolaus Copernicus

  4. Ben Franklin - Hand Boiler
  5. Isaac Newton

  6. Michael Faraday

  7. Charles Darwin

  8. Aristotle

  9. Alan Turing

  10. Nikola Tesla

  11. Thomas Edison

  12. Alexander Grahm Bell

  13. Pythagoras = Pythagorean Theorem (Perler beads, or coated BBs of 3 colors, acrylic, rotates to show falling equivalency of numbers to show 9 + 16 = 25...small tiles could work too, if we didn't want to be movable. 

  14. Gregor Mendel - 3D print easy...

  15. Alessandro Volta

  16. Heinrich Hertz

  17. Rene Descartes

  18. Leonardo da Vinci -- Definition of a Rennasiance Man - Artist, Mathematician, Scientist

  19. Jacques Cousteau

  20. Samuel Morse

  21. Linus Pauling

  22. Johannes Kepler

  23. Christian Andreas Doppler (Doppler Effect & Doppler Radar)
  24. Edwin Hubble

Marble Run Lifts, Elevators, Cams, etc.

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LINK 4 -Marble Machine Cams and Steps

LINK 5 - Marble Lift 1

LINK 6 - Marble Lift looks like an "A"

LINK 7 - Marble Run Geared elevator out of cardboard

LINK 8 - Spiral Marble Elevator

LINK 9 - How to on creating Marble Pumps out of wood - very detailed with pics.

LINK 10 - Marble elevator with levers and pulleys - Lifts marbles a large distance.

LINK 12 - Marble Pump -- sleek design

LINK 13 - Perpetual Motion - 4 sticks - simple, elegant. Short build.

LINK 14 - Perpetual motion, stringless pendelum, vortex basket...Vortex could be a basket accessed by a switch just before it...

LINK 15 - stringless pendelum - Bruce Yeany. This guy's Youtube has TONS of great, simple physics demos, all handmade. 1 second, 2 second, 3 second....he even uses pool balls that are the number of seconds. Could this go on a letter using marbles? 

LINK 16 - Chaotic Magnet Pendulum (Skip the end to see more versions of the Chaotic Magnet Pendelum.

LINK 23 - Marble Escapements ( marble releases the next marble much higher)

LINK 27 - Marble Lifts...multiple drawings schematics

LINK 28 - Kunsthammer Marble - Pump

Link 35 - How to make Marble Run Machine with Measurements- Just5mins

Link 38 - INSPIRATIONAL -- Wintergatan - Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles)

Automata, Cams, etc.

LINK 2 - Tools for automata & marble runs & perpetual motion devices

LINK 3 - Cardboard Automata for beginners

LINK 20 - Tessellating Geckos (I have an easy way to create these for CNC Machine

LINK 22 - Snake box - simple

LINK 24 -automata flying bird...single, multiple, etc..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcsKRLxfFDM&t=421s

LINK 25 - Automataa -- 6 in 6 minutes - tiny, simple, elegant.

LINK 26 - Cardboard Lizard Automata - DIY How To

LINK 29 - Tiny CorK Dragon Automata - brilliant

Link 30 - Tiny matchbox sailboat automata

Link 31 - Jacques Cousteau, Marine Biology, Ecosystems, Habitats - Automata...simple, but done up to include habitat...very nicely done.

Link 32 - Step by Step - DIY Cardboard Automata - Cams

Link 33 - Automata letters -- perhaps DCSD????

Link 34 - A How to First automata video 

Link 36 - Walking man, bicycle simple automata

Link 37 - The Open into Closed gears...

Physics, Gadgets, etc.

LINK 17 - (Physics Fun) High Tech Rain Stick -- Great for Sound!!! especially if we make a smaller one.

LINK 18 - Hyperbola Hole - Works great with a gear...

LINK 19 Trammel of Archimedes - Do Nothing Gadget - Multiple Shuttles 

Link 21 - Ambiguous Object Illusion - Neat

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