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Help
with your project topics - IF IN DOUBT ASK !!!!
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Engineering
~ Buggy Project
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Gearboxes,
Metal folding, Nets, Bearings, Tolerance, Testing
Your buggy has several important parts to its manufacture.
You should produce a written/design project that includes all
sections of the criteria listed in the exam syllabus.
The first section asks that you examine existing products, materials,
processes and scientific principles as a research exercise and
then use that data to create a specification for the product you
are going to make. With careful reference to that specification
you should produce a number of designs. These designs should
be analysed and working drawings used to show features of your
ideas. Remember that all ('technical') drawings should be done
to include BS drawing conventions. (Drawing
Conventions)
Your research might also sensibly include an analysis of why remote
controlled vehicles such as your buggy are used. What sort
of environments might they best be used in and what problems would
this bring to the designer? Check out these sites and any
more you can find. How can you gain additional strength in the
chassis of your design? You have only a thin sheet of aluminium.
How has this aluminium been coated to give pleasant looking colours.
If you had been given a thin sheet of steel, how could you have
prepared and 'finished' that material to give an aesthetically
pleasing and protective end result?
Use the list below to address the issues involved in the task
you have be given.
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Fixings
~ Nuts, Bolts, Rivets, soldered joints, glued joints
Polymers used in producing simple bearings. Types of bearings.
Industrial processes. Pressing, Injection moulding
and casting
Net design and the order for drilling, cutting and folding
Tolerance and the cost implications in manufacturing
Wiring and types of switches (DPDT etc) IR controllers,
radio, etc.,
Steering. Predictions of velocity ratio
and torque.
Micro-switches Potential dividers
555 timers
Timing and delay circuits in general Vacuum
forming (cover)
.. don't forget > Drawing conventions, Dimensioning,
Rendering, etc...
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