The wheels are turning... What will he/she come up with?Bike Wheel LED light m232The floor is yours...It could be anything - tangible, abstract, a system, etc.
No one-word answers please. They're dull and uninspiring.
Did it turn out well? Was it a success? Ineffectual? Did your attempts produce something beneficial, but not the thing which you intended?
I had an extremely wet basement. Our First Thanksgiving at our new house had my wife cooking a feast for 20 people and I was downstairs with two pumps and a wet/dry vac trying to keep ahead of the flood waters. I had the contractor come back numerous times to dig around the foundation and painting waterproofing on it and make trenches away from the property. None which helped very much. I decided a sump pump was the solution. I would dig a trench around the inside perimeter of the foundation and install a pump in one corner. I rented a jackhammer and spent a day breaking through the foundation floor. I had to score a line with a wide chisel about 8 inches all the way around. Then I used the jackhammer to cut through the concrete. I needed a pick axe to make the trench deep enough. The foundation sat on clay so it was challenging. I made a ramp up the bulkhead steps to make it easier to get the leftover materials out of the cellar. I bought 6" perforated PVC pipe and laid it in the trench. I ran the pipe all around the inside of the foundation. The pipe terminated in the corner where I had dug a three foot hole large enough to accommodate a galvanized trash barrel. I cut two holes in the barrel and inserted the pipe into the holes. I backfilled with more stone. Using a level I made sure the pipe was pitched towards the corner, then cemented over it, covering the pipe. I installed a pedestal pump and ran the output pipe into my waste pipe. During the next rain storm it was nice to hear the pump turning on and off and going down stairs to my nice dry cellar.
Hello Amanda, I missed you tbh and so happy to be involved in your questions.
in 2018 I had an idea for some sort of graduation project. something like 2 incidents have happened before to offshore vessels carrying flammable substance, where they were hit by lightnings and the results were tragic. However, no matter how high or low the probability of it occurring again, no one could consider a solution that I can get access to online. So I started working on a project with one of my classmates, I started communicating with some gents in a lightening prevention company in the US, because they install a technology to petroleum facilities with a mind-blowing mechanism (You're not earthing the lightening to protect the electrical equipments as the Benjamin Franklin style. You're actually preventing it from happening in the first place 🤯)
And so they were so glad when I talked with them, my teacher of "engineering design" encouraged me and was glad I've come to it. Everything was promising to have a detailed theoretical paper installing it to the marine industry. But unfortunately I had an accident myself was hospitalised for it 😩.
And as you can see from this pic I got from google someone else got it viral 😕 But that's okay. 😇
Thank you. 💐 Yeah I've been feeling the quality of the content is going downhill, and there's too much anonymity so I've been redirecting my focus elsewhere. But every now and then I get inspired to ask some new qs. Not like before, but it's a conscious effort to elevate the content a bit. I know there are still some people who are hungry for better topics.
Wow very interesting. That's a major technological idea/advancement for sure. I googled it. Is it the system that reduces the electric field to below lightning collection levels within the protected area?
I designed my parent's headstone after my mom died in 1998. I researched designs that I wanted to incorporate, I found a very unique font for the last name that had to be actually drawn, and I created a layout. I payed a company to work with me on getting the design the way I wanted it and then printing the template for the stone cutter. I picked out the stone and worked with the stone cutter, too.
I designed my wedding ring. It had a very unique Celtic design and incorporated 5 small stones (peridot - my wife's birthstone, blood-red garnet - my birth stone, an emerald, citrine. A diamond in the center of the design). It was kind of class ring shaped, except it didn't bulge up. It was yellow gold with silver in the resesses to make the design stand out like filigree.
I designed and built a cat house. (For our cats. Get your mind out of the gutter. LOL) It has two stories, each of which have two doors. It sits on a pedestal with landings on three sides. The fourth side is up against the side of our back deck.
I laid out the flagstone circle in front of the steps of our house, and the five curving garden pathways that radiate out from it. Bender boards line the sides of the 4' wide pathways and they are filled with a 3" layer of compacted decomposed granite to prevent weeds from growing.
I wish a saved a picture of it but it was a science project from middle school. The aim was to design a small car that prevents an egg from smashing as it hits the down end of a ramp.
My cart worked great. I thought what's more perfect for an egg to sit in than the cart it came in. All the seat was was one seat from the egg carton taped to a piece of cardboard. All that with a rubber band strung through a hole in the bottom as a seat belt. Then I made a chassis out of technic Legos (those ones are very sturdy). Taped all that together then bam, it was done.
In the next class my egg was one of the only few to survive the crash test. My friend just straight up built his out of Legos with no glue.
I really wish I took a picture, would've saved me most of that typing. But thank you for this opportunity to remember one of my few fond moments from middle school.
That sounds so fun! Things like that can be inspiring for kids. I didn't really like science projects. Can't remember anything that I did well on. But it's a great thing for kids to do. Technical and creative. We never know what will be memorable or meaningful later in life, eh? Sometimes the rare picture is the very reason why I do remember something. I was very into photography but as an art form, never selfies, so records of things are pretty sparse beyond childhood.
When I was 13, I wanted to measure the slope of a mountain. So I got a protractor, a straw to look through, some string and a small fishing weight, and used that device to measure the angle on the protractor. I didn't realize it, but I recreated a simple version of a navigator's sextant used for centuries.
I did something similar during a science outreach program. I used it to estimate the altitude of my class's model rockets. Instead of a fishing weight, I used an eraser.
The Tactical SOP and my Captain and I wrote the MDMP SOP for our military detachment. When we went to JRTC the O/C's asked for copies. They were the most comprehensive planning and tactical SOP's they'd ever seen.
With the help of a few others we rewrote the entire POI with Lesson Plans for every class for our Officer Advanced Course and implemented the lessons to great success.
It served us well. The general decided to have a "certification" program. Randomly select a detachment and give them a full mission profile and let us plan, launch, conduct and exfil. Our team was the first selected in the entire regiment. We smoked it. He was so pleased he invited us to his office to tell us how pleased he was. Then he got fired because he wasn't a politically correct ass kisser. No one else ever had to do it. Then 9/11 happened. When officers become political ass kissers the rest of the military and the nation suffers. Here we are.
I designed the entire science curriculums for the school I taught at for the 3 through 6 grades. I designed several writing curriculums for my class. I designed several model rockets when I was a kid, some of which worked rather well. I wrote a piano piece back in the 5th grade about rolling swells. I've long lost the manuscript and I can't really remember the piece other than it had a lot of arpeggios.
That was the first coat of epoxy paint on a floor that was going to look like an ocean and it turned out very beautiful but that's just the first coat. I had other pictures but it wouldn't let me send them. I had about three or four other things that I've done but it wouldn't let me send them
It is a kitchen and like I said that's just the first coat that's just the base But when you walk in it actually looks 3D and looks like the ocean yeah one of these days I will download an app that I couldn't get a URL number and send photos LOL I also do this thing I call burning wood and I've done trim on the outside of the house where I've done wainscoting or I've done Furniture grandfather clocks jewelry boxes but you have 440 volts going to a Transformer and it's almost like a welder positive and negative attract each other and as the current is heading towards each other it burns veins into the wood can I leave them with 24 karat gold or something like that it's really beautiful I'll find another one of your questions and I will send it to you a picture of something like that that's the only way I know how to do it right now
@LaFerrari He was National Snowmobile supermodified champion for 3 years straight. Then racked up national championships in this type of car. Many accolades later, his son is following suit.
Well I don't know if this counts but I've designed cities in video games like replicas of cities by scratch. I was on a few major Pro Build teams for Minecraft too.
