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Clickbait - The Automatic Fishing Caster 2020-03-13 William Floyd /images/reduced/clickbait/20191120_224129.jpg
Hardware
Engineering
School
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