First Meeting (Friday, January 28)

Wheel & Axle-and-Pulley Design

Today, we met in the cafeteria to start working on our nifty lifting project. It was a brief meeting, but we accomplished a lot.
During class, we decided to use a wheel and axle-and-pulley design for our machine. Attached above is a design of our machine.
When weight is added to the input can, it moves the pulley which spins the wheel, which turns the axle, lifting the 600g output can. We looked at our design and tried to decide what materials were needed to construct our machine.
We found out that we need a screwdriver for the wheel and axle, two pulleys, string, two identical cans, marbles to act as weights, two hooks, and a frame to hang our machine on. We realized that we have all of the materials needed for our Nifty Lifting Machine available at our homes.
Next meeting, we plan on bringing the materials to actually start constructing the machine.

Us working on the blog