This past quarter, I've been taking one of my senior design courses. It involves participating in a competition to invent the best can crusher. By "best," we are to create an electromechanical device that crushes a can in less than 30 seconds with a budget of $200. It has to crush three cans consecutively, be within 4 cubic feet, and weigh less than 25 pounds. In the end, they measure the crushed volume and take the time with a stopwatch, putting the values in a formula to tell us our score--the lower the better, and may the best team win.
Our device "crushes" the can in 3 seconds. We decided to be creative and cut the lids off before crushing it, so when it does crush, it will be a flat piece of metal. The professor was so excited about it that he said that if we actually cut the can, he'll count the volume as ZERO! So, here's the final product:
wow. i'm scared for senior year, haha. this is so awesome :)
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