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    The students were tasked with building a 3D printed house and wind turbine to power an LED light with a $10 budget. Their initial design for the wind turbine involved four oddly curved blades placed further from the central shaft to maximize wind catching. However, this design was too tall and unstable, causing it to fall over. They redesigned the turbine to be shorter using stronger materials to address these issues. While they learned in the process, they realized their initial design choice was a mistake and next time they would take a different design approach.

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    The students were tasked with building a 3D printed house and wind turbine to power an LED light with a $10 budget. Their initial design for the wind turbine involved four oddly curved blades placed further from the central shaft to maximize wind catching. However, this design was too tall and unstable, causing it to fall over. They redesigned the turbine to be shorter using stronger materials to address these issues. While they learned in the process, they realized their initial design choice was a mistake and next time they would take a different design approach.

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    The students were tasked with building a 3D printed house and wind turbine to power an LED light with a $10 budget. Their initial design for the wind turbine involved four oddly curved blades placed further from the central shaft to maximize wind catching. However, this design was too tall and unstable, causing it to fall over. They redesigned the turbine to be shorter using stronger materials to address these issues. While they learned in the process, they realized their initial design choice was a mistake and next time they would take a different design approach.

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    Windmill Project

    By
    Nick and Alexander

    3/29/21
    The Problem:
    We have to build a 3D printed house and a wind turbine that will light up
    a LED. We only have a budget of $10 for making the windmill and have to
    make the house 5 inches long, 3 inches tall, 2 inches deep, 1/8 inch wall
    thickness, must have at least 1 door and 1 window, roof with textured to show
    shingles, hole on side of home to fit LED wires.
    The Research:
    Wind turbines work by having wind turn the blades of a turbine around
    a rotor, which spins a generator, which creates electricity. The rotor connects
    to the generator that speeds up the rotation. The wind's force against the front
    side of the blade, which is called drag. The combination of lift and drag causes
    the rotor to spin like a propeller, and the turning shaft spins a generator to
    make electricity.

    “How Do Wind Turbines Work?” Energy.gov, Wind Energy Technologies Office,


    www.energy.gov/eere/wind/how-do-wind-turbines-work.

    “What Is a Wind Turbine and How It Works.” WHAT IS A WIND TURBINE?,


    ACCIONA, www.acciona.com/renewable-energy/wind-energy/wind-trurbines/.
    The Search for the Solution:
    Our first idea was to have your typical windmill but we ended up doing
    the wind turbine standing up right so on all sides it catches air. We have the
    blades oddly curved so that it catches more wind. We will probably have 3
    blades.
    The Best Solution:
    So I think we’ll have the 4 blades and have them further away from the
    shaft. We found out that having 3 blades is optimal but more blades help. We
    are farther from the shaft so that the blades aren't blocking each other.
    The Prototype:
    We’ll start at the base first and make the blades later on. We also decided
    to make the wind turbine out of wooden sticks because of it’s easy availability
    and how lightweight it is.

    The Redesign:
    One thing we had to do was make the wind turbine shorter because of
    how tall it was, so it kept on falling over. The wind turbine was also wobbling, I
    believe this because of how weak the wooden sticks we used. We fixed the
    height problem when working on the wind turbine, but we need stronger
    material if we redo it.
    The Summary:
    Something we had to do to the wind turbine was to make it shorter
    because it was too tall and heavy. Also we had to shorten the connection from
    the turbine to the motor because that was too tall as well. We researched a
    bunch of wind mills and that one stood out the most so we decided to go for it
    because it was different, and that was a mistake. as we built we had to change
    a lot of things as we were building. Overall from my experience from doing this
    project I would do it again but completely chose a different design and
    approach to this whole project.

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