​Engineering Applications (Level 3)

Implementation date Fall 2007
PROGRAM CONCENTRATION: Engineering & Technology
CAREER PATHWAY: Engineering
COURSE TITLE: Engineering Applications

Engineering Applications is the third course in the engineering pathway. Students have opportunities to apply engineering design as they develop a solution for a technological problem. Students use applications of mathematics and science to predict the success of an engineered solution and complete hands-on activities with tools, materials, and processes as they develop a working drawings and prototypes. Course Standards PDF​

Switching Gears (pun intended)

In March 2023, our budget for the "Rolling Through DCSD STEAM" fell through. We switched gears and split our efforst. One group worked on an extremely scaled down versions of the DCSD STEAM letters with etched symbol drawings. A second group continued to work on the Marble Run with STEAM lettes, DCSD 'people' in automata and the "Rolling Through DCSD STEAM" idea for a much larger build.  We may convert it to "Rolling Through Chamblee High School STEAM" and focus on the symbolism of STEAM elements offered at Chamblee High School. 
Cardboard
  1. Cardboard Marble Run LINK
  2. ​How to make spiral Marble Machine - cardboard LINK
  3. LIberman - DIY Marble Run Automatic Machine from Cardboard - LINK
  4.  创趣阁 -  How to make amazing stairs marble treadmill with cardboard -  LINK
  5.  Mini Gear - How to Make Gig Marble Run without DC Motor- LINK
  6.  Come's Atelier - How to Make Mini Marble Run Machine from Cardboard (Lift)  -LINK 
  7. KmiX - How to make Marble Run with escalator out of cardboard - LINK​
  8. HackShow Reflection - Made a perpetual motion machine out of cardboard! - LINK
  9. Sagaz Perenne - How to make marble automatic Run machine for cardboard, racing circuit for marbles- LINK
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Marble Runs (DIY)
  1. ​Steel Marble Track LINK
  2. How to make a STEEL MARBLE TRACK with Basic tools! step by step guide LINK
  3. DanielBruin(Short) LINK
  4. Daniel de Bruin - Making a Miniature Marble Machine! - LINK 
  5. Building a marble track at home | Easy DIY crafts Spiral Lift Tutorial​ LINK
  6. Copper-Gravity "Ep.27 Top Track" he begins with a Rainbow Curve Jig - LINK 
  7. Copper-Gravity Rolling Ball Sculpture Invention RBSS5-EP5 LINK 
  8. Copper-Gravity - Zig-Zag and cool balance lever lift - Zig Zag and a switch on my Rolling Ball Sculpture RBS4 EP 7 - LINK
  9. Copper-Gravity - Episode 11 Finished Product LINK
  10. Copper-Gravity - Ep.17 // Bumpy Track // Rolling Ball Sculptures - LINK
  11. Copper-Gravity - Building a Chebyshev Lambda Mechanism for my Rolling Ball Sculpture RBS4 EP 4 - LINK
  12. Cooper-Gravity - Loop da Loop for my Rolling Ball Sculpture RBS4 EP 8  (He figures out the formula for the loopdeloop is h = 5 / 2 * R. 
  13. Copper-Gravity - Ep.14 // Soldering ASMR // Slow TV - LINK
  14. Sandu and Laya - How to make MARBLE TRACK with basic tools! step by step guide PART - 1 LINK
  15. ​Denha - Marble Machine a GoGo! (Many ingenious gear lifts, lever lifts, cantilever lifts, tube lifts, balance beam lifts - LINK
  16.  Denha -Marble machine with double wheel - LINK
  17. William Moore - Marble machine No. 2: 4-step mini lifter (Wood & Steel Marble Run) - LINK
  18.  MarblemachineX -London Eyes Sky Wheel - LINK
  19.  Dennis Berry - Dennis' Rolling Ball Sculpture - LINK
  20.  How to Make Amish Marble Machine (Escapements)- LINK
  21. Ronald Walters - Marble Pump & Steel Bearings - LINK
  22. Wood Marble machine - Marble Machine - Simple lifting arm -  LINK
  23. Marques Darmawan - DIY Automata Stairs Marble Machine - Woodworking Eps.4- LINK
  24. Ken Feltwell - Smaug the Dragon Wooden Automaton Marble Machine (Cute Art with marbles and automata - LINK
  25. rossmcsweeney - 2 Stage arm lifter - Marble Machine No. 4 - LINK
  26.  veproject1 - Mechanical Mechanisms part 2 (Wait til the end because there are several cool mechanisms) - LINK
  27. Sagaz Perenne - Marble Machine, 2 Level Lifting For Marbles - LINK
  28. Solidworks Fun  - Marble Pump/Machine or Marble lift Mechanism Animation in Solidworks - LINK
  29. veproject1 -Top 10 mechanical mechanisms for 2017 - LINK
  30.  veproject1 - Mechanical mechanisms - Rolling Hypocycloid- LINK
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Escapements
  1. Dolf Perenti - Organic Escapement #2 - LINK
  2. Galileo Escapement - LINK
  3.  Ludic Science - Clock Escapement Mechanism (Excellent video explaination and demo Tick Tock) - LINK
  4.  Michael Brawley - 4 Escapements - LINK
  5.  muggsman0 - Rolling Ball Marble Machine Clock ("Brilliant!!! Marble run clock"  - LINK
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Pro - Rolling Ball Sculptures (billiard balls, professional engineers and fabricators)
Studentn engineers and fabricators can get inspiration looking at these professional builders. Many elements can be fabricated in cardboard, 3D prints, wood, steel, and plexiglass. Get creative!
  1. Hüttinger Interactive Exhibitions - Rolling ball sculpture - LINK
  2. David Morrell - Rolling Ball Sculptures (switches, waits, binary, etc.) David Morrell - Rolling Ball Sculptures LINK
  3. David MOrrell - Rolling Ball Sculpture cn:120 - LINK
  4. TomHaroldArt (Really cool bicycle chain lifting mechanism) - LINK
  5. Steven Mattern - Marble Machine 2016 (Excellent marble self-lift- LINK
  6. Steven Mattern - Marble Machine Jan 2017 - LINK​
  7. Wintergatan - Wintergatan - Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles) - LINK
  8. Wintergatan - DIVIDE BY 4 device -- Why 99% is NOT Enough - Marble Machine X Accuracy test - LINK
  9. WeR1sculptures - CD / EY rolling ball sculpture - LINK
  10.  Inspirational Video on Robert Moore's marraige between art and science - A short film about the making of Rob Moore's kinetic rolling ball sculptures (2017) - LINK
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Automata
  1. Cardboard Automata LINK
  2. clothoid - mechanisms & automata​ 
  3. Pensa Labs I Project - Making an Automaton Bluebird with metal wire (ignore the wire CNC machine - YOu can do this with handtools) - LINK
  4. I'm Yowawerts - How To Make Flying Bird Automaton from Cardboard | Easy & Fun Homemade Invention - LINK
  5. North House Folk School - Automata, Mechanical Marvels in Wood—A Video Postcard - LINK
  6. Aminor Channel - Cardboard Bird Automata Toy - LINK
  7. Cecilia Schiller - Automata Sampling -LINK
  8. Celal Ünal - Simple wood corner joints / Woodworking joints - LINK
  9. Thestory - Dolls moving on mechanical principles, Automata! Meet the Korean Automata maker ("There are 507 mechanical principles and 20 are used in Automata.") - LINK
  10. Michael Brawley - 15 Jump rope - LINK
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Mechanical Principles & Physics
  1. Mechanical principles 01 - WolfShaft - LINK
  2. Mechanical principles 02 - WolfShaft - LINK
  3. Mechanical principles 03 - WolfShaft - LINK
  4. Mechanical principles 04 - WolfShaft - LINK
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4 Second Semester Projects (Link to Slide Show) 

Introduction Slide Show Explaining the Four Second Semester Projects

DCSD STEAM Letters

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
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.

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.

LINK 1

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

 Three Budget Proposal LINK

Children's Theater Boxes

We have been asked to design and build wooden boxes for a children's theater. Child actors will be moving around on a raised stage.

What's the difference with these box types? 
  • Laser Cut Friction Boxes (Link)
  • Rehersal Boxes
  • Cross-Fit Boxes
    • Break It Yourself Version 2 Video
    • Kirk Earl's (Less supported) Box Link
    • Bexar CrossFit Box Link
    • Crave Craft Cross Fit Boxes with Dowels Link
    • Green Light Notched Box, Routered Handles Link
    • Sam Macey Plyometric Boxes using Dado Blade on Table Saw LINK   
      • Sam Macey Plans LINK
Stage Boxes are generaly lighter weight, because plywood is NOT 3/4" like Cross-Fit boxes. State boxes are typically open on one end, to reduce weight. Internal supports are solid wood, not plywood. The plywood in a stage box is 1/4" thick. Crossfit boxes are usually unpainted. Stage boxes are typically painted flat-black. 

Children's Theater Stage Stair Solutions 

The stairs are a bit short and kids trip on and off the stage. Can the Engineering Applications students create a solution? 
  • Stair Building LInk
    • Stair Building Measurements Link
  • Sair Building 1"x6" stringers to construct stairs LINK
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