Our team sat in despair, this Friday, finally coming to the understanding that our original design was not going to work. We decided, instead, to scrap the original design so that we could attempt something far easier and not condemn ourselves to becoming like Microsoft and trying to patch up a broken product.
The reason we decided to scrap everything because we had no idea how to make the blades of our design. Also, we didn’t know how to anchor the pole the blades would be attached onto the generator without completely stopping all movement.
The four of us sat, quietly sighing in despair, after finishing a second prototype which did not work, trying to have an idea-fest for a new design.
Sarah idly mentioned pinwheels. The rest of us were intrigued by the idea and I began to look up data on pinwheel wind-power generation.
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Pinwheel_20Generators
http://www.turningcolorz.com/
http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/article/200318/000020031803A0582870.php
I saw that, indeed, the idea was plausible and we all gave our stamps on the project. We began to draw out a new design. We didn’t want to make one large pinwheel, as we wanted it to always be able to catch the wind and we were loathe to make a tail. Instead, our machine was designed to catch the wind from every side— because we would make multiple mini-pinwheels and mount them in a circle in a hoop.
After asking Richard about how many generators he could provide us with (12!) we discussed other matters.
Such as our schedule.
Virtually none of us are available over break.
This should be interesting.
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