Design Challenge
Goal:
Build a highly accurate prototype drop-copter (see movies at bottom of page) that can hold 1 large bandaid and deliver it to a specific target. (You will drop the drop-copter from the mezzanine to the commons floor into a hula hoop.)
Role: You are Engineer.
Audience: Your client is/are people in need of food/medical/emergency supplies that can be delivered no other way.
Situation: Your team has been chosen to design a light weight, non-parachute system by Doctors Without Borders. Parachutes often get caught on high pointy things like trees and telephone poles. Dropcopters solve this issue.
Product:
You will choose and build a drop-copter from the designs provided or create a hybrid design of your own making/choosing that can hit the target hula hoop most consistently.
Design Requirements:
- Must have 2 or more blades
- Must be held and dropped with 2 pinched fingers.
- MAY GIVE 2 finger rotational help by "LAUNCHER"
- Must carry a note card (representing a bandaid)
- Notecard cannot be taped/stapled/glued to drop-copter
- Can only use masking tape to build dropcopter.
Must Do’s:
- Inquire and Analyze current designs of “Paper Helicopters.”
- Give 3 clear prototype top and side technical drawings (Developing a Solution)
- All parts on Technical Drawings must be labeled.
- Type of paper must be identified in Technical Drawing
Supplies
- ***3 kinds of paper***
- Light (20 pound)
- Medium (65 pound)
- Heavy (110 pound)
- Masking Tape (Mr. Kasper will police)
- Scissors (You provide)
- Markers/Colored Pencils (You provide)
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