Term 4
This is our final Wind Turbine design. The design that you saw in term 3 was just a work in progress, but this is our final project. The picture above shows my partner, Courtney, and my wind turbine design. We decided to base ours off of a design that we saw commonly used online when we were internet explorers. We colaborated on our design and created one final product. Although the rest of our class used bolts to secure there truss tower, we designed our truss tower to be welded together. The second picture above shows a close up of our welding. We used a lighter grey to hatch our welded area to show the difference. In our first picture the three things in the top right corner are the pegs and pins that would be used to put our design together if we were ever to actually build a model of our design. During this project the problem that we faced was creating something that looked as if our truss had been welded, but with the help of Mr. Ramos we were able to create this. If I was to do this project again I would make our design a little more complicated, showing a new design.
This is the second part to my wind turbine project. Instead of working together on this project my partner and I both designed seperate foundations. To see my partners design you can go to her website: courtneyscaddsite.weebly.com My design would be made of solid concrete. My foundation would be eight feet tall and thirteen feet wide. The wavy line in the picture shows that ground level. The three feet below that line would be under the ground. This foundation would only actually add 5 feet to the actual height of the wind turbine. This was a simple design to draw because it is basically just a square. If I was to do this project again I would make it a more complicated design in the shape of an octagon.
This was the third and final part of our wind turbine project. We had to create a design for our propeller. The propeller had to be designed to be the best at catching the wind. Once again this was part of our partner project, but we both had seperate designs. I designed mine to have three blades. The front view shows that each blade is seven feet long and that the center would have a one foot radius. I designed it grey with red tips because the grey would not stand out to much, but with red because it would alert planes to not fly into it. If I was to redo this project I would add a forth blade, so it could collect more wind.
Our final CADD project of the year was to design a futuristic car that used the sun to produce energy. I decided to design mine seventeen feet wide and five feet, nine and 7/8 inches tall. This car had the solar pannel on the hood of the car. The solar pannels are depicted in the top view by the blue line, hatched area. My design is a car with no wheel because it is completely voice controled and you need just your fingerprint to start the car. For this design we had to use many of our tools that we have learned in CADD this year. If I was to redo this project I would change the entire design of the car itself. This would have been a different design if given more time to complete.