Optimizing Water Power With Pitch Control

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  Onshape

Inspiration

Kaplan Turbine + Theme

What it does

Generates electricity with water current, and propeller adjusts to different water flows.

How we built it

CAD mostly, electrical, programming, and presentational elements.

Challenges we ran into

Mixing all of our interests and different skill sets

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Persevering and pushing ourselves through out the past few hours. We all learned a ton, and didn't give up on the idea.

What we learned

We learned different things because we came in with different strengths and weaknesses. I (Shritan) personally learned a lot about soldering.

What's next for Optimizing Water Power With Pitch Control

• Adding features for current sensing (V=IR) as currently our mechanism only optimizes voltage, not necessarily power.
• Continuous control

Built With

• google
• onshape
• python