The Brewster

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Peter

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More to come as the project progresses…

D&T Lesson Idea: Origami Windmill

Posted on April 17, 2010 by Peter

Materials:

1x Skewer
1x Straw
1x A4 piece of paper
300mm of sticky tape.
Some type of box

So the challenge is to build a wind powered device that lifts a pencil/pen the height of a desk. The fan is placed 500mm away with 3 speed settings. Ideally you want your design to work on the lowest fan speed. Sounds easy, but that’s because you’ve already seen my solution.

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New & Improved Prototype

Egg Drop Experiment

Posted on March 17, 2010 by Peter

We had to design and construct a device that would allow an egg to fall from appoximately 4 metres without cracking. It had to be less than 300x300x300mm with 50% of the egg visible and the lighter weight the better. There was a huge range of different designs and some of the really complex ones failed but our simple paper tube ones worked pretty good.

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