Spent a couple of nights this week helping my small child (6' 2" senior in high school) build a motorized turn table using a blender for the power source for an engineering class. As we worked on the project I kept thinking that if he had brought it to me 8 weeks ago how much better I could have made it. How I could have changed the motor type and used a speed control, or how I could have built in reduction gears to slow it down. No he had drawn up the plans and all he needed from me was help in building a case and changing the drive on the blender to work with the shaft of the turn table. I did get to design a cotter key to keep the turntable from flying off the motor but that was about it. I new that he would fail because I didn't have enough input into the final project. Grade came in to day, 100 out of 100 points. Made me feel very humble and very proud of him, he is growing up too fast.
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14 years ago