Jarod shark

Jared Overview

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My project is about making A shape shifting boat

Hello, my name is Jared. I am 10 years old and I love making stuff (sort of). I’d like to present to you my shape-shifting boat and how I made it step by step.

Shipping account for about 2% of the world’s CO2 emissions [1], and our modern lifestyle completely depend on shipping (over 90% of the word’s good travel by sea). Several hundred thousand people drown every year [2], and fishing and seafaring has been “one of the most dangerous jobs” for centuries [3]. Current ship technology is not only inefficient for humans, the noise pollution from propellers and engines also affects marine life [4].

How can we make seafaring safer, cleaner and better integrated with nature? Can we take inspiration from fish propulsion, and how learn from millions of years of biological evolution.

During a 3 days workshops led by Cesar Jung-Harada at the ArtScience Museum in Singapore we learned about ocean’s challenges and opportunities, designed our own boat, electronics, built and sailed our machines.

[1] https://www.iea.org/fuels-and-technologies/international-shipping

[2] https://rnli.org/what-we-do/international/the-global-drowning-problem

[3] https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_071324/lang--en/index.htm

[4] https://earth.org/noise-pollution-in-the-ocean/

[5] https://www.marinabaysands.com/museum/events/hackathon-holiday-cesar-harada.html

Overall dimensions, tools and materials

Dimensions:

64cm long body

• 64cm long body

20 cm wide

• 20 cm wide

10 cm high

• 10 cm high

Tools I used

Hot glue

• Hot glue

Pen knife

• Pen knife

Metal saw

• Metal saw

Materials

Stryafoam

• Stryafoam

Plastic

• Plastic

Straws

• Straws

Carbon rod

Spring rod

Building step 1

Sketch

Building step 2

Making the prototype

Cut out a triangular piece of styrofoam then cut each peice 3cm apart

Then put carbon wire on the bottom of the boat Next glue 2 straws on the sides of each piece of the cut outs the glue a fan on the front piece of the cut out as shown in picture above then fix a attack2er to the front piece of the boat then glue the electronics to the front

Measurement & Testing in the water

Race against time (best of 2 laps): 1 minute 1 second

Race in a loop (3 laps): 4th place and 5th place

Competition: first place

Feedback I got

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What I learn

We need a sharp shape to go faster

Times

Team Photo

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All the photos in google doc

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18uvJzVFaGyI8H9G9H_sjnfErUhrQaQqC?usp=sharing

To document

Document in google doc with photos and text

• Document in google doc with photos and text

Create an account on https://www.hackster.io/

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Create a project

• Create a project

Paste your google doc into Hackster:

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Add "CesarJH" to your project as a collaborator

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Publish with open source licenses

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