Do you think you would be more organised with an invention that would make finding paperwork easier?

Saturday, November 8, 2008

Our first outing to research and gather what we will need for our invention- (Success!!!)


Today we went to dick smith and soon found that they had very little range of anything and that they are gradually ordering less and less-they are starting to stop being an electronic dealer. They recommended Jaycar, when we went there we found that:


  • The staff are very knowledgeable and helpful
  • They have anything and everything-as stated under their name on the front sign- No. 1 for electronics and kits!!!!-we agree with this totally!!!!
  • Dont bother with dick smith-they have hardly anything
  • Use Jaycar!!!-They are great!!!!

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So....
Today we bought 1 12 volt motor (it can turn around two kilos and has a rpm of 1.1-we are hoping the weight of our invention is not to heavy so the motor can turn the main turning structure), a pack of crocodile clips, 2 straight battery packs (I had the right ones at home but they weren't as good to fit onto the dowel- the ones we bought are straighter and will work better when we have to stick the battery pack on), 4 lights and their holders, some cable ties to tie all if the wires together at the end and finally a switch to control everything.

As I am writing this I have just realized that we only bought 1 switch so I do no know how we are going to turn the lights off and on- we are controlling 2 lights on a battery pack, overall for the lights there are 4 lights on 2 battery packs.As far as we are going we have done well compared to what we have done in class- nothing.

Our only concerns are that the motor may not be strong enough and that I am not going to get enough done before we start work in class- I have quite a lot of work to do, thus i am afraid that when we are working in class every single day for most of the day we are not going to have anything to do. Although we will probably play with the motor and lights that we bought or we will have to write about our invention, what it does how it'll make change and how and, why it will help peoples requirements.

Posted by Jordan.

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