Personal Projects
The majority of this website presents projects that I have done through school, this page is going to be dedicated to projects I do on my own time for my own amusement or understanding of concepts.
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First I am going to link both the Smithing Discourse Community Project
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As well as the Creative Revision Project
Though these are both projects from school I really had a great time putting these together. The two projects above were drawn from my personal life and are a great starting point to understanding why I am interested in becoming an engineer.
Gear Box Model
One day while waiting for the train I became fascinated with the question "how does a transmission work?" I remember sitting at the station drawing out how I thought it might work, realizing I needed more than one color pen, and me continuing to piece this puzzle together with the information I already knew about transmissions (not much). To help me understand the puzzle, I got a gear box model to build off of amazon.
Putting the gear box together was very intriguing and a lot simpler than I thought it would be. It took me about two hours total to put it together. In that time I learned a lot about how you use the shifter to select gears, how those gears were selected with the shifter and how everything fit together in the gear system. One issue I came in contact with was the gear box getting stuck because it needed lubrication (wood on wood is kind of stiff... no pun intended). After waxing the wooden gears and giving them a good, but delicate, go around they worked nice and smoothly. This gear box is now the most amusing paper weight I have on my desk for when I need a minute to decompress.