Jet Pack

This one was actually conceptually easy, it was two jet engines mounted on a pack that servomotors would pivot. The fuel is put in the pack which holds the engines. The jet engines themselves are two TJ 150's which have a combine thrust of 2600N. These should give a very high top speed, I don't know exactly what that is because it is dependent on the person's size. Either way I expect the performance to be exceptional, however the engines are very fuel hungry and cause a 4 minute flight time. I am concerned with the force that the jet engines what apply on the side walls, though they should hold up.

Impeller Jet Engine

I had a vacuum once that had a large impeller and it put out very high pressure air. This gave me the thought of strapping what is essentially an afterburner with four fuel injectors after it. This isn’t something radical, I just thought it would be cool. The main issue I see is blowing out the flame.

Rotor Suit

This is probably the most overpowered thing I’ve made. It’s powered by two REB 45 electric motors by MGM Compro with 0.5m radius propellers. I tried to make this as structurally strong as possible but I’m still concerned with the torques the rotors will exert on the pack. The rotors tilt to maneuver. It’s made mostly out of Aluminum 6061. This is essentially a propeller jetpack.

DECA Innovation Plan

This is a project I worked on as an innovation plan for Deca. I called it HHyPE (Home-based Hydrogen Production Establishment). It was an attempt to have a way of making Hydrogen fuel right at your house, so in effect your house becomes your gas station. The whole point was to encourage the Hydrogen car market by getting rid of the need of a Hydrogen fuel infrastructure (which was the main issue). The main issue was the cost but we planned to offset that by starting a program within our fictional company that would buy excess Hydrogen from the customers and sell it at gas stations with a certain amount of customers supporting the Hydrogen gas stations. It worked by having water pumped from the house's water system through three mini hydroelectric generators which provided most of the necessary power. The water then goes into a water buffer (that's what I call it) which allows a certain amount of water in (what the electrolyzer uses per minute), and the rest will go out the pipe on the side where it’ll exit and prevent an overflow. The water then goes into an electrolyzer where it is turned to Hydrogen and Oxygen and sent to tanks to be used.

Monopropellant Rocket

This is a rocket I made after reading about the Nazi Me 163 Komet, which was a rocket powered plane. The interesting part of this plane is that in order to prevent the excessive heat due to combustion, they used monopropellants. This is when
two chemicals are combined that have a very violent chemical reaction and then expelled out the back. This therefore allows for a lot of thrust to be created with minimal heat. The chemicals I chose here are Potassium Permanganate and
Hydrogen Peroxide. I chose these because they produce ample thrust while also not being as dangerous to deal with as the fuels the Komet used which often required pilots to be very careful with what they ate and how they moved in the
cockpit for fear of the fuel reacting. The rocket itself is PVC with 3D printed parts for ease of manufacture. I don’t have it set up to be controlled so it just goes straight up.

Giza Pyramids

This is the Giza Plateau that I modeled for my Art History class, I made everything as accurate as possible using a combination of dimensions I found online and an equation I derived for the approximate height of the pyramids (particularly the small ones on the sides). I was able to do this because all pyramids are based on the golden ratio (1.62) which means that the base multiplied by 1.62 and some other constants is the height always. The rest I made based on a scaled 2D drawing I found.

Momentum Drive

This is a wild idea I had, basically there’s a load that’s shot across a one meter track that is caught by a magnet at the very end. This creates a completely inelastic collision where the kinetic energy is completely transferred. Furthermore by having the magnet the load won’t bounce back and undo the gained momentum. The load would then be pulled back and the process would repeat. The load can be propelled by air, combustion or monopropellants. The most important part is the ratio of load weight to the weight of everything else which can be edited to change the power of the drive. It’s essentially a momentum transference device, I don’t imagine it’s efficient but it’s something I made. 

Powerup Airframe

This is an airframe I designed to be 3D printed in lightweight PLA for the Powerup 4.0. The wings are made to be covered in a thin plastic like cling rap. I based it off the P51 Mustang, my favorite WWII fighter along with the Airacobra. Keeping the weight down was a major issue as I had a 20 gram limit as per the listed thrust to weight ratio. I haven't been able to test it because I don't have a 3D printer.

Captain America Shield

This was one of the first things I modeled. It’s made of one millimeter of Graphene backed with an eighth inch of nitinol. The Graphene serves to bulletproof it, given that it’s the strongest material ever made, and the nitinol allows for the shield to “fix itself”. Nitinol is a memory metal which means that when it is heated or electricity is run through it, it returns to the shape it was “programmed” to return to. So the
Graphene would bullet proof the shield and then the nitinol would “repair” it. I don’t exactly know how to bind the two materials though.

MK1

This is basically a mini electrolyzer (made from hard drive disks) that pumps Hydrogen and Oxygen (with natural pressure due to the reaction) into a small modified can which is then combusted with a small sparker. This is based off the work of an engineer on YouTube I saw once. The can is likely going to end up melting due to the heat and the thinness of the can wall, therefore I chose cardboard because it makes no difference if it catches fire. The only thing I am not sure about is the ability to sustain
combustion.