Jonah G.
WISRD Member
12/13/24
Continued on the new model. Here are some photos.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OGPg0aJMznBYz8VG3X-75faL3qEzlRf0V3NxCaE-SDA/edit?tab=t.0
12/12/24
Started a new Wave Machine model as the current one has some glaring issues such as angles that are too sharp and the water having to be pushed uphill. Hopefully, I should be able to finish it before winter break.
12/6/24
Worked on the poster abstract.
12/5/24
Finished the process portion of the poster.
12/4/24
Got the model printed and tried running water through it to find some flaws in the design. The water doesn’t have enough pressure to make it up the slope and just pools at the bottom. Hopefully, with more water pressure and a tighter output area, we can solve this problem in the next model.
12/3/24
Worked on the poster.
11/23/24
Finished the new model, I’ll probably print it when I get back from break. (Photos linked below)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pzhIqXwS3LR7mmn4QzZpqtfgBlTBs2dej7k8OihDK2E/edit?tab=t.0
11/22/24
Started remodeling the machine in Fusion instead of TinkerCad to make things easier to print and to make it to scale (I also don’t like TinkerCad).
10/31/24
I managed to get the model printable after a bit of slicing. I’m probably going to print it out next week.
10/30/24
I’ve been doing an awful job of keeping up with the journal, partially due to dark matter day prep taking up my time in the lab. We’ve been prepping for dark matter day for a while and it happened last week. This week I’m going to try to work on making a physical version of the wave machine, probably through 3D printing it.
9/26/24
Today I made a pretty simple mockup of the machine.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HFp5hqKTabgMxarFr5KQXdfppcm32g5KoEHjQfDgFMI/edit
9/25/24
For the past week or so I’ve been looking at designs we can use as example for what we want to to and also have been looking at materials we might need for the machine. Hopefully by next week we can start gathering materials.
9/13/24
Today I continued to research wave pools and how they can be more sustainable. Here are some links that I found/ were sent to me.
https://wavegarden.com/sustainability/
https://52f.a91.myftpupload.com/tech/
9/11/24
This is my first, very late, entry. For the past couple weeks I’ve just been helping people and getting used to the lab. I decided to join Aiden B’s project which is an alternate wave pool concept. Today I researched a bit about how the wave pool works and the environmental impact of them. Here are the articles I read.
How wave pools work:
https://science.howstuffworks.com/engineering/structural/wave-pool.htm
Environmental impact: