Title: Roundabout 'Rithmatic - Expressing Engineering in a New Light
Abstract: Many facets of engineering arern't readily obvious to a non-engineer. This project hopes to lift the veil of engineering, by showing real-life examples of engineering in a Rube Goldberg-type machine. Different aspects of engineering will be portrayed as the machine progresses, and as it performs each task, the machine will explain the theories occurring. The segments of engineering that will be examined are kinematics, fluid dynamics, electricity, magnetism, light, and possibly chemistry and heat transfer. The machine works its way to the final task, which is turning on a light bulb. This is to represent both one of the more significant pinicles of engineering, and also to, hopefully, represent the lightbulb that goes off in the head of the viewer.
Media Presentation: This project will have two separate media components. First, there will be a tactile exhibit, which I feel is integral to the project, as it will show cohesive examples to those who will be able to view the project firsthand. However, this doesn't have as great a reach as I would like. Therefore, I will also be creating an internet component, which will have the entire project filmed, along with the theory behind each individual component explained online.
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I'm going to say what I said on your piece of paper:
COOL!
I'm not sure if I have any comments other than that. I mean, how big will it physically be? What kind of web-based platform are you thinking of? Can you help me build my set for my piece?
yay.
This is such a great idea and I think that Rube Goldberg projects are really visually interesting to begin with so you have it all! I would recommend looking up a few other media examples of similar projects for inspiration on the media side. I know there was an entire short film composed of a 15 minute long project and then there was that famous car commercial. Sorry I don't remember names but I think we watched them in IML 101.
Oh yeah...I also meant to suggest that you keep an online journal of the building/mathematical process of your project for the web element. I think it would be interesting for users to understand what challenges went into the project.
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