High-Level Project Summary
We start to do the blueprints of the primary mirror and the sunshield in a piece of paper for later start to make folds, with this we tried to use the least posible material. In this process we can understand the complexity of the Telescope, each of the details have a purpose for do it work without problems, we realized of this because perfection is in the details and we tried to do it with all the details possible. However make a Telescope with paper served us to understand the physical functions to make the Telescope autonomous and its mission in the space without Human intromission. This is important for having ideas about a proyect before invest in it.
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Detailed Project Description
In engineering we use origami because it is important to know how to develop a project before starting it, and it is better to start doing it with paper, scissors and glue than with metal and on a large scale, making a project with paper benefits us in planning it without forgetting anything, that is, taking into account all the details of the architecture, such as its shape and its operation out of the ground and without human intermission making it autonomous. In our project, we started by making sketches of the hexagonal shape of the primary mirror, since its shape and color attracts a lot of attention, as well as the sunshield that has marked the levels that make it up, is what cost more work, since we wanted to do it in a way that each level of the sunshield was made with a single fold and in the primary mirror we made it have mobility as when it is just deployed after leaving the ship.
Tools:
Paper sheets.
Glue.
scissors.
Adobe Photoshop.
Space Agency Data
We used the data from the Canadian space agency, we were inspired because the image on the page is of good quality, and so we could observe the details that the satellite has, and the figures that it carries in its design, such as the sunshield is similar to a rhombus and the primary mirror is composed of many hexagons. Although we also looked for many videos to know the movements that the telescope will have at the time of deployment, and thanks to these videos we could realize how the primary mirror moved to reach its final position, as well as we realized how the sunshield moved to reach its final position, and thus we could determine what bend to use so that the ship has the freedom to bend without breaking, also this research helped us to know the engineering behind each component of the telescope and it is wonderful to know how from something as simple as an origami, you can get to something as far as a telescope, and it is thanks to this research that in our final project image is placed in space, because of a brainstorming can achieve wonderful things.
Hackathon Journey
The always existing curiosity for space and its exploration, was the main cause that brought us together to work on this project. We felt excited because it was our first hackathon, we learned the importance of applying the arts and design to achieve a result that is in harmony with the technological requirements and the environment where it is developed. Although each member of our team is from a different branch of engineering, we brought to the table each of our skills, abilities and knowledge to develop the challenge. we organized a system of work by modules that in the end was part of the challenge, From each one faced different obstacles during the process. we thank the organizers of the events for helping us to discover or get involved in different areas, generating a new wave of knowledge towards us by giving us the different possible resources.
References
VoV. (2017, 29 de mayo). Origami Mosaic Tutorial (Hexagonal Flat Pieces) [Video]. YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oijzwhfEJ4A
Northrop Grumman. (2017, 24 de enero). James Webb Space Telescope Launch and Deployment [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6ihVeEoUdo
Goverment Of Canada. (2021, 8 de septiembre). James Webb Space Telescope. Agence spatiale canadienne | Canadian Space Agency.
https://asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/jwst/default.asp
Tools:
Paper sheets.
Glue.
scissors.
Adobe Photoshop.
Tags
#origami #space #paper #NASA #MEXICO #excellent #spacemonkeys #art #science #handmade
Global Judging
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