GEARBOX

Another project we were tasked with in my engineering class was building a gearbox.
This gearbox would have to lift a certain mass six inches and twelve inches in as little
time as possible. The materials we were given were two plastic squares, a variety of
gears with different amounts of teeth, screws, a spool, sticks to use as shafts, and an
Arduino uno r3 kit we would use to program the motor. To get the motor to lift the mass
first we had to calculate the correct gear ratio needed to lift the mass in as little time as
possible while still having enough torque to function. Then, we had to design the gear
box by making sure all the gears were flush with each other. Finally, we used the
Arduino app to program the motor using c++. This project taught me the basics of c++
and how gear ratios function.