Hi everyone.
So, we're back!
My name is Eliot, and she is Jing Xuan.
We are back with our coilgun version 2
So, for those of you who missed our first talk,
a coilgun is an electromagnetic projectile launcher
that uses electromagnets to propel a projectile.
We start off by firing the first coil
which sucks the projectile into the middle
and activates the first sensor which activates the second coil,
and the second sensor which activates the third coil
which then fires the projectile.
A quick recap of our version 1 -
we made a 60 Volt 3 Stage coilgun
that was modular and could fire with
either one, two, or three stages,
or one stage with all the power of three stages
into that one stage.
But the disadvantage of having it modular
is that you need to do a lot of daisy chaining
because you need to pass the power
from one end to the other.