Project #2, Blog #4

We have completed completed our design and gathered our materials. We are a bit behind in design construction, but we have simultaneously started putting together our final presentation. We will meet and finish both tasks this Sunday at 2pm.

Project #2, Blog #3

Today, Project Panda discussed our project, which ironically is not about Pandas. It is about Liberia.

Topics for today included:
- Electricity needed to power a germicide lamp
- Math to determine the electricity needed to power a germicide lamp.
   > We would need about 300 pounds of water to power a germicide lamp using a turbine with a 3in radius to produce about 3 gallons/min. We have decide to use a different method of water purification.
- Alternative water purification options
   > Sedimentation is a common and inexpensive way to filter water that does not require any electricity.
- Alterations to project design
   > We will use a downspout filter similar to a Brita design and store any power created by the turbine in a battery to be used for emergency power.
- Prototype construction
   > A non-working prototype will most likely be created as a working prototype would be too expensive for our budget.
- Next meeting: Sunday, November, 14, 2010; order of business: Prototype material purchase and construction

Yamani doesn't like people named Jack.
Jonathan likes bacon.

Project #2, Blog #2: Materials

Today we met at 7pm to discuss the materials we will use to build our prototype. This discussion led to our discovering many holes in our design. We made a list of topics to research which we will come back to tomorrow in class. Meeting dismissed at 8:40pm.

Below is the Gantt Chart we updated for today.
Gantt Chart - November 3, 2010