What I learned throughout the year

  It all started when Mr. G, my advanced engineering teacher had the crazy idea of enrolling us in a competition called the Shell Eco Marathon, which is only a car building competition where the winner is whoever's car travel the most miles per gallon with only 100 ml gas tank. For the competition there is two types of cars you can pick, the urban design and the prototype, my team chose the prototype design which looks something like this. This year's shell eco marathon was different than past ones thanks to the global pandemic we are undergoing, my team only focused on passing the virtual tech inspection using a free cad program called Onshape (The image bellow is an example of what you can do.) My team consisted of approximately 8 students all of which had individual jobs, for example I was in charge of the electrical components of the car but later on I focused more on the bulkhead and the parts belonging there. Once we determined the roles of each individual we decided to t

 2020 Project Highlights As the school year started my advanced engineering teacher had the crazy idea of participating on the shell eco marathon, which is basically a competition where you and you're team are supposed to build a car that consumes the least amount of fuel possible. I got in-charge of the electronics, which was basically the horn, the kill switch and the ignition system, I will not be talking about all of this in this post only the highlights. One of my first assignment of the year was to work on the horn's circuit, so here's a photo of what I came up with. I used the appropriate electrical signs, and I learned a lot from this project. This is the final result for the diagram, which includes the battery, the horn, the button, the relay, the fuse, and the wires of course. After finishing the diagram for the horn, I started learning about fuses, so I began to watch a bunch of youtube videos that talked about selecting the correct fuse size. I even used the for

I am about to embark on a journey of knowledge and learning, to elaborate I will learn the basics of Matlab or at least as mush as I can squeeze in, in a month, I will also discover what is it used for, and I will document my process and acquired knowledge throughout this blog. First things first, what is Matlab? Matlab is a multi-paradigm programming language that allows for matrix manipulation, plotting of functions, implementation of algorithms, creation of interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other languages. Basically you can do in Matlab what you can do in any other programming language the difference is that Matlab is more number based, and makes more emphasize on Math itself. Now that I know what Matlab is and what is it used for I can now create my own account so I have access to Matlab and I can I use it freely. At least for a month. I can't show you the creating an account process but I will show you how Matlab's interface looks like. Now for the fun

In this quarantine, I've had time to make a handful of projects my favorites being: DIY Galvanometer(battery tester) DIY Balance scale DIY Motor DIY Galvanometer My DIY battery tester was one of my favorite projects. The materials needed are in the photograph. The completely functional Battery tester is down here: Video:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/19Gfo9sgmO250ahzpP3CtPzav-lfIFgTD/view DIY Balance scale The DIY balance scale project was actually fairly simple, but it's fascinating how it works and the math involved in it. These are the materials used in the scale. The setup is also fairly simple. There's really not much of the project so ill just try to explain it. The idea of the scale is to figure out how much an item weighs depending on what the other item weighs and the position of that item, I won't show you the math because it's really not that intrusting, just take my word for it that it worked. DIY Motor Th

A penny battery seemed insane, especially at the beginning of the year. The penny battery started off by getting all the materials, which were: 5 pennies, 1 with both sides of copper and 4 with 1 side of copper and 1 side of scraped copper. A small metal piece, which is where I'm going to be putting the penny stack. 4 small pieces of paper. Vinegar and salt. This is the setup of the penny battery, the pennies are stacked up with pieces of paper in between, the pieces of paper were socked in vinegar and salt, and all of it is on top of the small metal piece. Then I noticed that the metal piece was not necessary and that the pieces of paper were too big so I fixed the battery, at the same time I used the voltage meter and it gave me 2.6v which is quite a lot because a triple-A battery is 1.5v. With the 2.6v in my battery, it was now time to try lighting up an LED, this was actually one of my favorite experiences in the shop class. I l

This over here is where it all started. The year began and in my 7th period, my intro to engineering class began. I remember being completely new to the school so I didn't know any of the teachers, once I walked into the class I remember that it was absolutely not what I expected, although the teacher was really chill and smart, so that was pretty cool. The first assignment of the year(at least for me, because I started a bit late) was to make a sketch on a piece of paper, Mr. G the shop teacher was going to help us step by step. This is how the drawing really turned out, since Mr. G was helping the class step by step, the drawing looked really good, here's a photo of the final result.