Cameron B. Twarek
Frederick A. Carlson
Morgan A. Roddy
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| The Boomstick II: The Boomstick II is a vacuum powered projectile launcher, which launches ping-pong ball/dart fin hybrids over long distances in The SRC. It is powered by a vcuum pump that seals the projectile chamber, and when the tape is pierced on the non-firing end of the barrel, the projectile is emitted from the firing end of the Boomstick II. |
| The Competition: Each Team in the competition was given the same set of inputs (target distance and height) to enter into both their MATLAB and Working Model programs. Then, each team was to determine a set of initial conditions for the projectile to hit the target. Each team then set up the Boomstick II with their predictions, and in a moment of suspenseful tension, waited anxiously to see if fate and the gods of programming favored them. On Wednesday, the 13th of February, 2008, Team Shampoopoolah proved their dominance in the field of programming by being the only team in ME123-01 to hit the bull's eye of the target. Although certain other teams were declared the champion, Team Shampoopolah knows that accuracy is the only thing that matters, the crown is rightly theirs, and that they are indeed the de facto rulers of Section 1. This video showcases Team Shampoopoolah's great success. (Note: this is a relatively sizable file) |
| Team Shampoopoolah's Modeling approahes: Team Shampoopoolah cleverly deduced that they could use .avi-readings in MATLAB to gain an accurate view of how fast the Boomstick shoots its projectiles. Also, Team Shampoopoolah brilliantly discovered that they could use experimental test data from the Boomstick to get an appropriate k/m value for the particular projectile that the Boomstick fires. With this information, Team Shampoopoolah composed NOT ONLY a masterful MATLAB code to predict which initial values would hit a particular target , BUT ALSO an amazing Working Model file to see if a particular set of inputs would hit a given target. Team Shampoopoolah proved their daedalian nature through this composition of resourceful material. |
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