Considerations
I really want to utilize stainless steel for every part of the sculpture, but with the metal comes the worrisome amount of weight the turbines have to support. It went to researching some turbine designs that will best utilize the wind flow coming into the rear of the piece. Now that things can get spinning and moving it's important to know how much it is going to spin and turn. Rotation was never strong suit so I looked for material on the power that can be supplied by the wind. Hopefully by tomorrow I can calculate the mass flow of air at different velocities and determine the amount of power that can be used on the turbine.
My concept turbine for powering the leg
Team Updates
Brendan Brown, one of my teammates, holding up the prototype coffee mug I made for him. It didn't have a bottom and couldn't hold fluid. The design worked better on paper than being made of it. Abdul Alzadjali, our other teammate, isn't in the photo. He was playing with the prototype Brendan made for him.
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