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Project Goals I started my project by researching different reasons why engineers are building robotic hands and what obstacles they face. I learned that a lot of research on robotic hands is done to advance human prosthetics. A major problem today is the expense of creating prosthetic limbs that replicate the wide range of human…

At the end of the year, the Fusion class took a one week trip to the University of Victoria. We stayed in dorms close to campus and spent the week immersed in Engineering-focused activities and workshops both on and off campus. It was an opportunity to explore the many different fields of engineering and see…

The human hand is remarkable. It can make 27 unique movements and has the tactile ability to enable the human brain to perceive the shape, size and texture of objects without seeing them. While we might take our hands for granted, they are essential for human interaction with the world. This is a key reason…

In 1986 Chernobyl, an RBMK reactor used in the Ukraine, exploded. This released massive amounts of gamma radiation which, due to the exposure, killed thousands of people while they attempted to clean up the radiation. My invention is a code that uses cameras to trace the movements of each joint of your hand. It then…

I felt like the problem that we were trying to solve was quite clear, although I feel like we should have tested using an icy terrain rather than a rocky and sandy terrain because Ganymede has a surface of ice, not rock and sand. Despite this, we still managed to capture the grooved terrain of…

A few months ago, my team and I wondered how hard it would be to land a rover on Ganymede. In this website I will show you how my team and I have built and tested a prototype for an extraterrestrial rover. Our team had to design an efficient transportation method on a foreign celestial…

This is a picture of Ganymede’s terrain. It is filled with craters and has long divots across its surface. It is also entirely made of ice so its surface is not only slippery, but extremely cold aswell. These are all factors that have affected our final decision for our robot. (definition statement) Our team must…

This is Ganymede. It is one of Jupiter’s moons and more importantly, it is the moon my team has landed on. Our team must design an efficient transportation method capable of a 5km round trip across Ganymede, without wasting excess energy and without wasting time. The vehicle must handle extreme conditions including temperatures as low…

Before I dive into explaining how I made the robotic arm, I would like to note that this is a fusion of both my arduino project and my CAD project. I will start with explaining the arduino portion, then further down I will explain the CAD portion of this creation. Physical arduino portion: This is…

Introduction And The First Step My class and I were tasked with creating 3 projects over 6 weeks: a Python coding project, a CAD project, and an Arduino robotics project. I decided to start with the Python project and created a Slot Machine. These are some of the steps I went through to make this…