Project Definition and 1000 Threads

Hello folks I am about to start on my final year project and I am not sure how to go about it ,, as in what I need to write about and what calculations I should do relative to my design, its bascailly a system that apply s plastic hanging tabs to a product ,basically it will be a motor that...

1-Observing and Asteroid. Determine is orbit with a CCD camera and calculate its diameter(3-5 nights) 2-Observing a Variable Star. Over several nights observe a variable star and generate a light curve 3-Open Cluster HR Diagram. Observe starts in an open cluster and by using standard starts...

Any ideas about where I can hire a CNC machine designer for a personal (non-commercial) hobby project? I've emailed various people who are prominent (at least on the web) in hobby CNC designs and have received zero responses. Maybe my ideas are too wierd. My interest is in the programming...

Since there has been little activity on this part of the forum the past week I have a few questions to pose to those who visit First a definition. A Community Writing project, is what it sounds like. Its a Story written by the community. normally the setting is based on the board it is posted...

Hi, I live in Missouri I'm currently in a Botany class that has a project that requires us(me and my lab partner) to find 35 Missouri native plants, tree's, shrubs, etc. Any helpful advice on how to go about this would be appreciated. Department of conservation said go to parks and pick...

i have been learnin java for about two weeks. i have gone through simple programin and some other programs includin GUI through swing. till that i was working with single form programs that can be compiled by using "javac" and executed by "java" syntax.now to try better i downloaded a java...

Hi All, So i have to do a small engineering project, and i am wondering how to generate micro-waves. The goal of our project is to design a bracelet that can remotely activated to break a gelatin capsule embedded inside the capsule and will release a sedative (which will be absorbed through...

Hi guys, This might seem like a rather ambiguous question but I have a physics project on motion that I need to do. It is rather a big project accounting for a weighting of around 15-17% of my total year mark. Now here's the thing I need to find something to investigate/experiment with...

The fall semester just started and my team and I have to come up with a senior design project. Faculty projects and industry funded projects are very slim this year and it’s looking like our best bet will be to come up with (and fund) our own design. At this time I am torn between two ideas...

Hi there everyone. I'll try to keep this short. I'm currently a sophomore at a local college. I'm in Honors Calculus 1 and part of the honors course requires a research project at the end of the semester. I'm studying to be an ER Doctor/Particle Physicist, yes I know this will take some...

Hi, I'm trying to create a projection on a flat surface by using an LCD screen extracted from a flat panel monitor, a sheet of translucent fine grain paper, a Fresnel lens and an LED light source. The purpose is to project a focused image on the paper for display proposes. The idea is to...

I'm starting my undergrad senior design course and I'm having a bit of trouble coming up with a good project idea. The team consists of 2 EE's and 2 CpE's. Our project is supposed to take 2 semesters ( design / build and test ). I want to do something challenging and fun. Please share some...

I am going into my fall semester of E&M and am trying to decide upon a topic to write about for an honors project. I have not taken an E&M course yet so it is difficult for me to really find which topics are too advanced scientifically or mathematically at this point. So far I have taken a...

I wish to build a small projector . how to project an image on my crt monitor on screen.Is it possible.

Hi, for my third year project i have got to design a nozzle to fit a fire extinguisher. However firstly i must analyse fluid flow within said nozzle, but i have no idea how to use GAMBIT/FLUENT and finding it difficult to find relevant user guides on the internet. Anyone care to offer some...

I'm not an engineer I'm an artist and I don't have a clue where to begin. I'm working on a small setup and I need to create the following somehow. I need a small (micro, miniature) engine that drives a small lever up and down. I need to be able to control both the height of the lever (1-3...

For my AP Physics course, I am trying to replicate the double slit experiment. My idea is to have a cathode ray tube from an old television set and take the electron gun out. The electron gun will be firing at a plastic or foil sheet with 2 narrow slits side-by-side. Behind the screen, I will...

Does anybody have a good idea for an advanced physics project for a high school student (10th grade). not just models or the angle to throw a ball the farthest stuff but I still want to be able to do experiments. Thanks

I have been thinking about doing my 'high school project' in mathematics and I would like to do some original research. So my question is: Which areas of mathematics would be most suited for me? Having in mind that I'm still in high school, although I have taken some (fundamental) math...

I am biomedical enginerring student, I am working to gather Ideas for my graduation project and I will appreciate if anyone provides me with some ideas and some relaible sources (if any) for any innovative biomedical engineering project

I have to do an investogatory project in school and we can choose the topic of our choice. My teacher has suggested an experiment where we could study the damping effect of a pendulum in three different media-air, water and magnetic field. This sounds pretty interesting (and pretty simple) to...

Hi, Now I work as a QA in an IT company and I want to switch to PM in future. What steps should be taken ? Currently I am into CAPM and reading some forums. 1.What is the path to reach my destination project coordinator -> Junior PM / Assistant PM-> PM ? will this work? 2. How long it...

Homework Statement I have a presentation on our physics class and I have decided to demonstrate the phenomenon of Smoke Waterfall inside an airtight container. I saw my friend do this tons of times. It's really amazing but how can I explain the physics behind this trick? In general knowledge...

So just some background info...I'm in a summer engineering program. We're all high school students (with little to no engineering experience), and we've only been in the program for two weeks now. Just recently our professor assigned my group an assignment to create a spring-assisted magnetic...

Hello, I usually just lurk around the forums as a first year engineering student, but I'm 27 years old. I have my bachelor's in Accounting, but I'm not very passionate about it...anyway, that's a whole different thread, but the point I'm getting across here is that my practical knowledge of...

So I'm taking an intro DSP class this summer and I need some ideas for a term project. I'm also taking a class on statistics and I'd like something that incorporates the two. The project will be implemented soley on MATLAB so no hardware ideas. I'm having problems coming up with things...

Hello, I am a senior in high school as of Fall 2012 and I am new to PF. Currently I'm self studying physics in preparation for the AP exam( I am aiming for C Mech, if i am prepared in time)and am taking calculus BC. My goal is to take up a project over the summer in which i could apply...

Hello everyone! I want to do a small project, and would like your thoughts: I'm going to build a small genset, with a target power output of 3kW, and "one person carry" possibility. Using liquid fuel, probably gasoline. Although if diesel is a possibility, that would be interesting to...

Hi, fellow physics friends! I'm doing a small interior decoration project in which I need optical image rotation as a component. I know that this can be done (see e.g. http://www.optics.arizona.edu/optomech/papers/swift%201972.pdf for a review paper). I've also seen Half-Penta Prisms sold...

Hello... I'm trying to figure out how many magnets I need to put on one side of a piece of sheet metal in order to sufficiently magnetize all the surface area of the other side to a specific attractive force to other pieces of steel in contact with the sheet. It has been too long since...

Hello all, I am in need of a microcontroller. The only problem is that I do not know where to start as I have never used or programmed a microcontroller before. I need the circuit to perform the following functions: -Drive a coil -Scan through a range of frequencies -Be able to...

Do you have any electrical engineering senior design projects suitable for someone who is BME/EE? This is one of the (few) classes necessary if I want to also complete the EE major, which I sort of joined for fun, because (i) they have all the math courses, not sure why and (ii) the professors...

Hi everyone, I'm attempting the laser audio transmitter project. And example of it is found here: http://www.freeinfosociety.com/site.php?postnum=2310 I'm quite new to electrical engineering type work, and am a little confused by why the circuit works the way it does. The diagram is this...

Hi I'm currently working on a logistic robot for my final project in Mechanical Engineering. My vision is to design something similar in features to this robot: http://www.its-eng.com/logistic-robot I would really like to join military vehicle manufacturers industry so its really important as...

anyone know a thing or two bout samuel johnson, shakespeare and project guttenberg?? this isn't science i know but I've got so much out of pphysics forums thought id post this here... I wanted to read everything he had to say about Hamlet, so I went to project guttenberg thinking that his...

Hi, I am based in the UK. I am 24 and currently working for a company who manufacturer load cells for marine equipment. I am starting uni in september to do a foundation degree in electronic eng. and will go on to get a full degree. What I want to know is, in 5-7 years time when I have...

Homework Statement I am required to make a projectile launcher of some form that will fire a golf ball a certain distance, a certain height through a window, and to have it land accurately on a target. -The device can only be 1x1x1 meter - no weight restrictions. -There will be two launches...

Hey. I'm doing a summative project for my physics class in which I'll build a fairly strong electromagnet and see how different amounts of current affects the force it's able to exert. A few questions: What is the best core material to use? Also, does it matter what I use to separate the coil...

dear members, i would like to thank the owners of this forum for giving us students the opportunity to share our ideas and thoughts about topics related to electronics. i would like to help me pick up few thoughts or ideas for a senior project related to renewable energy such as solar or...

hey im in 11th grade and I am in a electorinc trend at school, we have to make a project for school and i want to combine bluetooth technology in it. i looked i looked Through the internet for guilding- how it is built, are there any protocols, how to use / transmit/recive - everything. so far i...

I'm looking for some sort of project to do this summer. I was looking around, and I heard about making a small, home-made cyclotron, but it sounds like materials would be hard to get and expensive. So, does anyone have any examples of a great, preferably time-consuming project that I could...

I was looking at JP Aerospace's Airship to Orbit project: http://www.jpaerospace.com/atohandout.pdf I was with it until the third phase: What is the mechanism of electric propulsion? Is it simply a propeller? (I was under the assumption that a propeller would be fairly useless at that...

Hello, I am a student with a chemistry project. However, I am not quite sure what I would like to do the project on. I am fairly ignorant when it comes the recent findings and happenings of the chemistry world. Some of my areas of interest would be biochemical, nuclear, and energy related...

Hi, I'm an electric engineering student and I'm want to initiate a project to control a robotic arm. But i must first choose which arm i will work on and where to buy it. I want to make a position control, so i will need a feedback of the actual position of the arm. The control will be made...

Now my teacher told me that i and a few classmates that we have to make a project about the law of gravity aplying to the stars orbiting the galaxy and how it affects the celectial bodies within the galaxy... Also The Galaxy's Gravity affecting the stars... Can someone give me a few ideas... If...

Hi All, I am doing this project where I want to implement a start stop timer. I want to use one start and one stop button (or a single button for both) and interface them with 555 timer. The 555 timer I would like to configure for one second. The output I would like to display on the 3 seven...

Hello everybody, It'd be very helpful if you could propose some ideas, suggestions to what we've already made. -------------------------- So, we had a test rig consisting of an inclined board, connected with floor using a curved steel plate. The model of a car, after gaining some...

I simply need to shoot a paper plane very far, the furthest distance. I cannot interfere with it during flight. I plan to have copper wires up a standing pole, from the pole, an extension (used as a ramp for the plane to gain acceleration), will stick out less than 90 deg/ Perpendicular). On...

Seismic Activity Project! Please help me! So, I have to find the location of the epicenter of seismic activity. Of course, our project does not intend to find that of real seismic activity. This is a school project, in which my teacher will drop an object at some unknown location in a large...

I am pursuing an undergraduate degree in electronics and communication engineering. I intend to apply for grad school in physics after my undergrad. We are starting off with minor projects From next semester, and i would like to work on something that has a strong overlap between physics and...