Progress

The solid models have all been, for the most part, finalized.  We just need to create etching on the parts as identifiers.  The parts that were needed to make out fan work were received and testing was conducted on them.  The parts that were ordered were a piezo element, a stronger DC motor and female jumper wires to enable us to to parts away from the breadboard.  All of the parts will be held together with some sort of glue either hot glue or super glue but mostly likely a combination of both.  The DC motor will be controlled using the piezo knock sensor by using the PWM library to change the speed of the fan based upon how many knocks are sensed.  LEDs will be indication of the speed of the fan.  Also and LCD will read out the ambient temperature of the area around the fan.  The motor will be attached to the fan head with a wooden dowel or perhaps another 3D printed part pending the final volume of the parts (need to find out the support material volume). The model itself will be fairly light due to its primarily plastic and acrylic composition.

Also, there were two meeting during the past week.  One was during the lab time and the solid models were worked on during that time period.  Then another meeting of about 2 hours was arranged on friday to work on the code.  And various other hours were spent individually working on both parts of the project, the code and the solid models, outside of the meeting times.