Week 11: Motor completion

-        Adding in the switch to control the motor

Week 11: Motors 2.0

-        Making a new circuit for the motors.

Week 11: (Understanding the sequence)?

-        Understanding the sequence

Week 10: Sequences

-        Finding out the sequence we need for the module

Week 10: Reducing complications

Switching out the photodetector with a normal switch.

Week 7: Photodetector Issue

-        Photodetector senor “legs” fragile

Week 7: More problems

-        Still having trouble hooking up the circuit.

Week 6: Sensor Issues

-        Update: keep having trouble hooking up the sensor so need more time

Week 6: Photodetector as switch?

-        Using it as our switch.

Week 5: Optical sensors

Using an optical sensor, the operation of the motor can be controlled by a "disc" with holes that rotates through the sensor. Blocking the infrared that the sensor produces will signal the motor to stop.

Circuit with working optical sensor:

Written program (multiple combined into one):

Update (29/11/2016): Changed to a touch sensor because the optical sensor was too sensitive.

Week 5: Stopping the motor controlling the poppers

A circuit developed to stop the motor from spinning after the power supply is switched off, due to extra torque generated from the motor itself.

Actual circuit:

Week 2: Improvements

learning how to reduce the runover cause after a motor stop.

Week 2: Self-controlled motors

-        self-controlled motors

Week 2: Automation

-        Having plans to make our module automated.

Week 2: Curtains

Idea for a curtain to cover up the machine before revealing the components came from performance stage curtains. Possibility of improving presentation?

Mechanism used: Bevel Gears

Update (1/11/2016): Scrapped as it ruined the aesthetics of the overall machine.

Week 1: Aesthetics

-        Planning to integrate some electrical components to make our project look more appealing.

Week 1: Arduino Microphone

We wanted to incorporate a way to change LED's light intensity via a microphone attached to an Arduino.

Update (21/10/2016): Idea scrapped due to various reasons such as the program having complications. Development of a simpler method of controlling light intensity is ongoing.

Week 1: Concept - LED Vu Meter

Inspiration gathered from other Arduino projects made by others such as this,

led us to come up with some concepts which we could add into our machine...

2 Possible ideas to be added to the top of the machine included:

Idea 1 "Waves" - higher pitched sounds → higher height of lighted LED columns.

Idea 2 "Beats" - every beat produces a bright light which flows from one end to the other with decreasing intensity.

Update (25/10/2016): Scrapped due to lack of space and high cost. 

Week 1: What we have so far...

This is our product from the module we took last semester (Engineering Innovation Studio, EIS), which leads into this semester's module (Engineering System Design, ESD).

This is Cinétique Alumine. Originally called "The Popper Machine", it uses motors and cams to cause individual parts of the machine to make a sound similar to that of xylophones. Inspired by a popular arcade game the "High Striker" where the user has to use a hammer to hit an area as hard as possible to get the counter going upwards to give a high score.

About Us

Hi guys, we're a group of students from Singapore Polytechnic in a course called Diploma in Engineering Systems (DES).

As part of one of our modules called Engineering System Design (ESD), we are to design and implement systems by applying fundamentals from various fields including engineering, design, business, and sociology. Final product: a large system, built using the subsystems developed in our prerequisite module, Engineering Innovation Studio (EIS).

We're group 5, Cinétique Alumine!