Today is our last class of Engineering Design and Development therefore we have practiced our presentation and are getting the room ready for our special guest from MIT and our parents as well as some engineering companies. We wish everyone a well summer!

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The Future

The end of senior year is a hectic time for any student. This holds true for the EDD students as well. We have been working hard on our projects and presentation. The 3D printing group has a new frame, complete with spool holder, and are working on coordinating a buzzer into the printer as well as printing parts during class. The SCCC group continues to test their designs, making the best system possible, and the Firefighter App has finished their code, with the help of sophmore Joseph Gabay and Tom Hayes. In class we've been preparing for our final presentation, practicing, and giving feedback. It's looking really great! Also, I attended the presentations of the junior, EDD hopefuls. I was blown away by the problems and solutions they thought up. Some of the projects included improved check out scanners for stores, wheel chair attachments, a parking app for smart phones, and new head phones. I'm so excited to see who is chosen for next years class, and have complete confidence that they will achieve great things next year!

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New Design Completed

Our new design for the MakerBot was completed today. There are a few modifications that include a larger space for the base so there is more room and you can access the wires easier. The triangular part on the top is meant to hold the spool so the plastic can feed down to the extruder.

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Code Merging Coming Soon

Today we fixed and added parts to our webpage which is on it's way to being completed and soon will be ready for Java code.Also our rough drafts for our final presentations were due today and some of the group members worked on completing that.

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Continued Testing in SCC

Today we tested the tall simple part while overclocking the processor. Its results were a few degrees better than both the commercial part we are testing against and the earlier version of our simple part.
We also put together the PowerPoint for our final presentation on June 14.

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MakerBot Printing

Here is a quick video of the beginning of the whistle being printed on the MakerBot. We were not able to finish the print, but the extruder is running well and we will be able to print out more parts soon!

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