Testing, Building, and Final Project!

So, over the weeks we also tested our system and ideas and built them. Below are images of our prototyping and of me putting tubing into IV bags using a blow dryer and pliers. I put tubing in about 90 IV bags and it took me about 3 hours or so, it was a pain in the butt!

The images below are images of the final project itself. It turned out pretty much exactly how we imaged it would! However, sadly the algae did not glow as brightly as it should have due to the fact that we had transferred it to the IV bags not many hours before it was due. Also, the conditions for the algae were not great and they were hard to control in the gallery so that didn't help. Then, of course, the one major calculation that me and my other engineer had to do is make sure that the motors worked to push the acrylic and even though we thought we were making conservative calculations... we were off! The motors did not have enough torque to push the acrylic pieces!!! NO!!! O well we did try and the motors worked and the sensors worked, just not to push the pieces. But oh well, the hours we put building this thing, though FRUSTRATING as hell was a blast!