Specifications
88
PCB
$100.00
Steel Base
$50.00
Aluminum Framing
$100.00
Plexiglas Casing
$150.00
Paint
$20.00
22 Gauge Solid Core Wire
$20.00
14 Gauge Wire
$30.00
Mirrors/Lenses
$200.00
Wheels/Axel
$70.00
22 Gauge Connectors
$20.00
14 Gauge Connectors
$20.00
AC - DC Conversion Parts
$150.00
Telescoping Tripod Stand
$150.00
Miscellaneous Hardware
$200.00
Total
$2,870.00
Figure 74 – Revised Itemized Budget
8.3 Final Plans for Device
In the end the final plans for the device will include handing over collected test data and
research over to Waseda University so that they may further their goals in order to
produce similar generators to prevent classes from being disrupted by scheduled power
grid outages. Pending further funding sending a team of UCF students over to Waseda
University to act in a consultant role to oversee design and construction of final design
prototypes. It is also desired that this device will be the stepping stone in allowing both
universities to begin working together and pool resources with one another in order to
benefit each other at least on the level of the IEEE Student Branches.
From correspondence received from contacts at Waseda University the work that is
being conducted for them is greatly appreciated and overall moral at Waseda University
in their engineering department is ecstatic that a team overseas is willing to commit their
time and effort to help them come up with a solution to this problem of theirs without any
immediate gain or compensation to be had. The research derived from this project will
act as a stepping stone for engineering students at Waseda in an effort to construct
generators similar in design to the one proposed earlier and use them to make their
school more sustainable even after the power grid has recovered from the current
situation.
Another final hope for this device is that this will be the beginning of a partnership
between the two universities‟ IEEE student branches to work together in solving
problems and to be able to pool resources together from each university and use it for
the betterment of each other. This being one of the founding principles of IEEE it is
greatly desired that an outcome similar to this will hopefully one day be the fruit of our
labor.