From 864bbabd662e8495a06380c02172df9fa064cfd8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: William Floyd Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 22:42:15 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] clickbait: Start of post. --- content/projects/.empty | 0 content/projects/clickbait.md | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 40 insertions(+) delete mode 100644 content/projects/.empty create mode 100644 content/projects/clickbait.md diff --git a/content/projects/.empty b/content/projects/.empty deleted file mode 100644 index e69de29..0000000 diff --git a/content/projects/clickbait.md b/content/projects/clickbait.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5c7210a --- /dev/null +++ b/content/projects/clickbait.md @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +--- +title: "Clickbait - The Automatic Fishing Caster" +date: "2020-03-13" +author: "William Floyd" +featured_image: "/images/reduced/clickbait/20191120_224129.jpg" +categories: [ + "Hardware", + "Engineering", + "School" +] +tags: [ + "Fishing", + "3D Printing", + "SolidWorks" +] +--- + +This project was completed in the Fall Semester of 2019, for my EPM class at LeTourneau University. + +*** + +The mandate given to us was as follows: + +Create a device to launch a fishing weight. It must: + +* be capable of selectively launching 20 and 40 feet +* weight less than 5 pounds +* cost less than $100 +* be battery powered +* (for extra credit) be wirelessly controlled + +I was assigned as an engineering lead, and as it turned out, completed the majority of the physical project. +This was a mutual arrangement, however - I bounced ideas off of team members as needed, and provided information needed for the report writing - they completed the report and peripheral tasks, and helped me as I found tasks that could be assigned. +Being a small project of such singular focus, there was little in the way of division possible on tasks, not without loss of efficiency. + +And so it was that we began brainstorming. + +*** + +![Laying the groundwork](/images/reduced/clickbait/20190919_143530.jpg"The first parts put together as a demonstration, the core of our launching mechanism")