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My Engineering Report includes the processes involved in designing and constructing Executive Toy that runs on alternative energy. An executive toy is something similar to The Newton’s Cradle, in the sense that it can sit on an office desk and keep your mind at rest.
Each week our class spent about 4 hours of work on it, and after 6 weeks of work [not including designing the project] I produced a working prototype. My executive toy is powered by solar energy, as opposed to other alternate energies. It uses photons from the sun to power a motor which spins on the other end, I attached a propeller to this and from there it span around in the water.
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In the Industrial Technology curriculum, this project would be considered the major work; the idea of the project was to broaden our understanding of electricity and its production as well as to give us a real life example of its uses. This project was building upon our previous work, in which we produced a listening device which involved a fair bit of understanding of electricity and in particular current, although it was much harder to do as time and resources were limited.
My Executive toy draws off the “snow globe”, and the inspiration was to be honest, The Wizard of Oz. The scene where the tornado [hurricane] hits the house and there are things flying everywhere as Dorothy and her dog get lifted into the air. I thought the whirlpool would look similar to a tornado and this sparked some creativity.
I enjoyed this project as it was a bit more creative than the previous work we had done, I put a fair bit of effort outside of school, as well as inside, such as buying a set of models to put in the job and keeping a log at the end of each week of what I had achieved.
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In our industrial technology class, we designed our...