Cloud Eater
General Overview:
The general idea here is an autonomous lighter than air blimp-drone that can stay airborn indefinitly and broadcast readings back to any listening devices reducing the need for single use weather balloons. The way this must be done is by desighning an airship that can climb to great heights and can autonomously communicate with gps and move to or stay at transmitted possitions. The reason this is named the "Cloud Eater" is because one of the largest long term issues will be the lifting gas leaking out. My idea is to "refuel" by harvesting the water from the clouds and turning it to hydrogen via electrolosis.
The general idea here is an autonomous lighter than air blimp-drone that can stay airborn indefinitly and broadcast readings back to any listening devices reducing the need for single use weather balloons. The way this must be done is by desighning an airship that can climb to great heights and can autonomously communicate with gps and move to or stay at transmitted possitions. The reason this is named the "Cloud Eater" is because one of the largest long term issues will be the lifting gas leaking out. My idea is to "refuel" by harvesting the water from the clouds and turning it to hydrogen via electrolosis.
Shadow Chair
General Overview:
In the novel Shadow Slave the main character obtains a magic wooden chair that he can pull out of no where. He uses it to look really cool by being able to take a seat in a fancy chair anywhere. I think it would be really fun to have a similiar item but sadly I dont know of any technology that can dematerialize and materialize objects so I plan to opt for a chair that can fold extreemly small.
Objectives:
1. A wooden amrchair in accordance with the drawing I've created
2. A wheight that would allow for portability, so it cant weigh as much as a normal wooden chair would
3. A minimum size that would allow for me to carry it around preferably something that could fit in my backpack flat
4. A mechanism that would allow it to self-unfold so it looks like a full chair comes out of nowhere
Materials:
I plan to use aluminum sheeting and tubing for its lighweight properties and then cover it with a thin layer of wood similiar to a wood veneer to make the chair look asteticly like an antique wood armchair
Erganomics:
It would be terrible to build a chair that I couldn't confortably use and sit in. For optimal posture in work and relaxation I'm going with an angle of 105 Degrees between the seat and the back. There will also be a divot sloping inward rather than just a flat seat. The seat is measured at a hieght that allows my feet to rest on the ground which slightly elevates the bottom of my thighs preventing the blood being cut off. Because sitting on a wooden seat is much less forgiving than an upholstered one the seat will not be very structure so as to allow similiar confort when shifting to different conditions.
Mechanics:
There are four basic structures to worry about: the legs, the arms, the seat, and the back.
The Legs:
Given that the legs are not going to be larger than the seat is wide, they will fold up into the seat. this will be possible because the seat need a divot in it for the sitters butt so the legs will fold into the high part of that dvot on the back. on the front on the other hand the divot is low near the end so im unsure what I will do for the legs there I will most likley have them fold in on themsleves and then fold into the divot created space on the sides. My idea for the auto-assemble is to run elastic cord through the chair legs and connect it to the seat with holes for the chair legs to sit in. That way the chair legs are automaticly pulled into the holes and set in possition.
The Arms
I am not really sure what im going to do for this
The Seat This will fold in half over the legs and have the main clasp that holds everything closed when the chair is folded I want to make everything centralized around this so that it only takes one button to activate the whole chair
The Back This will have two mechanisms: one that makes it the same size as the seat, and one that
In the novel Shadow Slave the main character obtains a magic wooden chair that he can pull out of no where. He uses it to look really cool by being able to take a seat in a fancy chair anywhere. I think it would be really fun to have a similiar item but sadly I dont know of any technology that can dematerialize and materialize objects so I plan to opt for a chair that can fold extreemly small.
Objectives:
1. A wooden amrchair in accordance with the drawing I've created
2. A wheight that would allow for portability, so it cant weigh as much as a normal wooden chair would
3. A minimum size that would allow for me to carry it around preferably something that could fit in my backpack flat
4. A mechanism that would allow it to self-unfold so it looks like a full chair comes out of nowhere
Materials:
I plan to use aluminum sheeting and tubing for its lighweight properties and then cover it with a thin layer of wood similiar to a wood veneer to make the chair look asteticly like an antique wood armchair
Erganomics:
It would be terrible to build a chair that I couldn't confortably use and sit in. For optimal posture in work and relaxation I'm going with an angle of 105 Degrees between the seat and the back. There will also be a divot sloping inward rather than just a flat seat. The seat is measured at a hieght that allows my feet to rest on the ground which slightly elevates the bottom of my thighs preventing the blood being cut off. Because sitting on a wooden seat is much less forgiving than an upholstered one the seat will not be very structure so as to allow similiar confort when shifting to different conditions.
Mechanics:
There are four basic structures to worry about: the legs, the arms, the seat, and the back.
The Legs:
Given that the legs are not going to be larger than the seat is wide, they will fold up into the seat. this will be possible because the seat need a divot in it for the sitters butt so the legs will fold into the high part of that dvot on the back. on the front on the other hand the divot is low near the end so im unsure what I will do for the legs there I will most likley have them fold in on themsleves and then fold into the divot created space on the sides. My idea for the auto-assemble is to run elastic cord through the chair legs and connect it to the seat with holes for the chair legs to sit in. That way the chair legs are automaticly pulled into the holes and set in possition.
The Arms
I am not really sure what im going to do for this
The Seat This will fold in half over the legs and have the main clasp that holds everything closed when the chair is folded I want to make everything centralized around this so that it only takes one button to activate the whole chair
The Back This will have two mechanisms: one that makes it the same size as the seat, and one that
Aquaculture System