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For this project me and my group decided that we will be targeting our exploration towards the Proxima Centauri B which is a n exoplanet orbitting the dwarf star Proxima Centauri. When it comes to the specific reason of why we are selecting contains these categories below

1: Human Exploration

Proxima Centauri B is only 4.24 light years away from us, making it the closest potential habitable exoplanet. Moreover, it is Earth sized and rocky, there are promising water resources on this planet and most importantly, it is considered as the most promising candidate for supporting life beyond Earth.

2: Potential

Proxima Centauri b has a solid surface instead of gas. Furthermore, it is located at a habitable zone from the star which is also known as the “Goldilocks Zone” where the temperature is just fine for Liquid water to exist and for human as well. It is located 7.5 million km away from it’s star, Although the distance between Proxima Centauri b and it’s star is much smaller than the distance between Earth and Sun but considering the point that it’s star is a dwarf star which release less energy and heat which will make it suitable for biological activity as well

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What Opportunities present themselves on PCb

The most valuable opportunity that appeared on this planet is mostly exploring resources that can develop human’s technology level

1: Resource development and Scientific investigation

While exploring the planet it is possible that we can find valuable resources. Some of them might actually adress to problems we have on Earth currently. Moreover, as a planet formed near a “Red Dwarf” We can have some furtherexploration on Red dwarf stars to expand our knowledge in order to have a better understanding of the universe.

2: Potential life out of the Solar system

When it comes to exploring a planet, I think the point that everyone cares about is whether there are life appearing on that planet, especially when the target is Proxima Centauri b. According to the ALMA radio telescope, detecting the dust belt, and it seemed like there might be delivery of water. Furthermore, PCb is very similar to Earth in terms of size and that gives a posibility of having solid surface and even Oceans

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What chllenges will I face

1: Distance

Distance is one of the most significant aspect of the challenge for this plan, how to bring human to a place that is 4 light years away from us

2: Radiation

As stated that Proxima Centauri b is located near a red dwarf star which will likely be emitting solar flares that is extremely deadly.

3: Tidal Lock

Due to the distance between the two stars, there might be a tidal lock scenario. This means that the planet stops spinning and only one side gets star light while the other side don’t which will cause extreme weathers.

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How to design the vehicle

1: Radiation shielding

Due to the problem of radiation, a good method is to add a Radiation shield to protect the human and the mechine from the high radiation environment and ensure that all the machines will be working, I would suggest using lead and synthetic polymers to help protect the vehicle stops operating due to the strong radiation and more importantly to protect human from the strong radiation that will be likely causing serious damage towards our body.

2: Temperature and cross- country setting

First of all, it is extremely siginificant to have thermal material to lock the heat in from flowing out in order to keep the instruments in the vehicle work instead of collapsing in extrmeme temperatures, moreover is to keep human warm and safe from some extreme weathers. Additionally, it is definitely cruecial to design the vehicle with the speciality of cross country. Since there isn ‘t any road obviously, therefore, the condition of the surface we are moving cannot be determined. In this case, a strong, reliable system that can endure harsh roud conditions is neccessary.

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How we know about the planet

1:European southern observatory’s telescopes in Chile

This is the first human telescope that actually discovered this planet and concluded that it is 4.24 light years away from us by using a radical velocity method. They also establish the conclusion that the distance between Earth and Proxima Centauri is the closest exoplanet from us. Moreover, they also identified the flares and chromospheric activity of the star and that gives the scientist a hypothesis of the possibility that an exoplanet might be orbitting it.

2: Pale Red Dot project

This is a project launched to prove the existence of Proxima Centauri b and they soon confirmed the theory that said that an exoplanet orbitting the Proxima Centauri b does exist by using the HARPS which is also known as the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher which is a part of the ESO telescope.

3 Sources

A project determined the radius, the internal structure and indentified what kind of planet PCb is. Another project simulated how the planet will work with some variables.

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APA format citation

Brugger, B., Mousis, O., Deleuil, M., & Lunine, J. I. (2016). Possible internal structures and compositions of Proxima Centauri b. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 831(2), L16. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8205/831/2/L16

Cermak, A., & Cermak, A. (2025, July 30). Proxima Centauri b – NASA Science. NASA. https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanet-catalog/proxima-centauri-b/

[email protected]. (n.d.). The Pale Red Dot campaign. ESO. https://www.eso.org/public/images/ann16002a/

Martin, P. (2019, January 21). Planet Proxima Centauri b. exoplanet.eu. https://exoplanet.eu/catalog/proxima_centauri_b–4042/

Noqtis. (2025, March 4). Proxima Centauri b: Earth’s nearest exoplanet neighbor. Starvium. https://starvium.com/planets/proxima-centauri-b

Wikipedia contributors. (2025, November 13). Proxima Centauri b. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri_b

Wu, Y., & Wang, Z. (2024). Progress in ionizing radiation shielding materials. Advanced Engineering Materials, 26(21). https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202400855

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CHATGPT

Introduction

For this project, through some failed attempts, I gained a lot of experience with dealing with coding and wiring problems. What I did is a temperature controlled fan circuit, this means that whether the fan operates or not depends on the temperature shown on the temperature sensor

This project simulates a scenario when we when we need an automatic temperature control of a living room. This system will be helping a lot by adjusting the temperature by opening the fan automatically

Code

Explanation

This is a very cool thing that I discovered through this topic is to set a variable A and add int to say the stored integers

These codes means that the whole thing will be running once when the Arduino starts. Moreover, I setted 13 as the output point and A1 as the input point and we ensured that the Arduino would be able to send data to my computer with adding Serial.begin

These codes basically means that I want it to read the code from A1 fwhich is the temperature sensor data and stores it in variable A. Then, the Arduino will be sending data to my computer stored in A and pause 1 second

This is the most essential part of the code, when the data stored in A showed that it is greater than 160( it is written as this due to the conversion) than it will set pin 13 to high which means opening the fan. However, if it is lower than 145 it will close the fan.

Bill Of Materials

Prototype

How this works

First of all, the temperature sensor will send data to the Variable stored and it will send it to the computer. After that, the data will be analyzed, and control the fan accordingly.

Demonstration

Summary

This is one of the project that I really struggle with, however, with the help of Mr. Crompton I actually did it and challenged myself. All the wiring and coding are pretty complicated for me but I am glad that the final project turns out pretty well

Use of AI

CHATGPT

When I started thinking of this project, the first thing that I thought about was making a bottle container for any liquid. However, when I started making the cylinders, I was thinking about why not make it interesting. Therefore, I decided to make an engine, to be specific, not the whole engine with all the details, whcih might be costing months of time, I did the pumping cylinders part.

Part 1

This is the first part of the whole thing, it is just basically creating circles and making extrudes.

Part 2

This is another part using the tool of three point arc to make it symmetrical towards the original cylinder.

Part 3

This is the last part of the body which simply includes two cylinders and the 3 dimension shape that we made on the second part.This part is also the main rotation part of the engine that pumps the pistons up and down.

This is the main part of the project, which is called the pistons, they are the things that goes up and down. I started this part by using the diameter of the cylinder in part 3 to create a circle. Then I created another circle slightly smaller and connected them together. Then used the extrude tool to make it 3d. Lastly using the revolve tool to make the top part.

This is the whole thing connected together

Another view…

The interaction of the whole project will be including numerous ratational parts. First of all, between part 1 and part2 , there should be flexible and ratational. In this case, it can be spinning up and downto create energy. Moreover, the part in part3 that is letting the piston part hold should also be rotational in order to push the piston up. Lastly. the connection point between the part2s and part3s should also be rotational just to make sure the piston can be pushed.

The drawing of the project

The total materials needed:

Revolute mate and fastened mate

In this part I used a fastened mate in order to lock the air outlet part which is the coloured circular ring to the piston since I used different parts for them. Moreover, I used revolute mate to show how the rotational parts actually works.

CAD url: engine | Assembly 1

Conclusion:

This is the first 3D model creating project, I thought I did pretty well on the logic of the whole project. However, I think it will be best if I can add more details to the pistons, or even make it more complicated such as a whole engine of a car.

1: As the project was announced, it actually made me quite struggle since I have nearly zero experience in Python so I have to go through how python code was made and the fundamentals.

I started with thinking of doing something sports related like a bouncing ball code. However, It came out that the background and the ball image is hard to be crafted together. From this, I got inspired to make a number guessing game.

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This is my Code for the project

“欢迎使用 Colab”的副本 – Colab

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This is the flow chart of the process

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These are the definitions of what each code does

1:

This sentence is mainly telling the system that we are about to code a thing that requires random generates and define this number_guessing_game

2:

This sentence means we are letting the system randomly pick a number to start the game and greet the user

3:

These are basically the greeting sentences, and sets the attempts count

4:

These code are basically setting up the place for user to type in their guesses for the game and as they typed an answer, it will count as an attempt

5:

These codes are basically giving out hints when the user’s guess is lower or higher than the actual number

6:

These are the codes that calculates the attempts and show the user that they got the correct answer

7:

This is basically the part of how the system should do if the player input a non-number thing

Function Definition

These are the parts pf Function, creating a reusable code that includes the whole game in it

Commentation

In this project I do beleive that my code is fairly clear even though it is only a simple number guessing game , this project actually helps me learn the basics of coding like the variables, definition statements and how to make the system show words. Moreover, it is also significant as a prerequisite for future projects that will be involving coding part in it

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