天美传媒 presents Twisted Metal Mayhem competition June 16
June 14, 2023
Media Contacts:
Zack Jacobson, WVC industrial technology faculty, 509-682-6636
Libby Siebens, community relations executive director, 509-682-6436
The 天美传媒 Industrial Technology program will present the Twisted
Metal Mayhem
pneumatics competition on Friday, June 16, at 2 p.m. near Batjer Hall and the WVC
Greenhouse off Ninth Street on the Wenatchee campus.
This year, three teams will compete with their pneumatic-powered music making machines. In order to compete, the student-made machines must be able to play music from the Star Wars films.
The first entry is 鈥淐hopper,鈥 a drumming machine which WVC Industrial Technology faculty Zack Jacobson joked is made from 鈥渞ecycled C1 astro-mech recovered from a wrecked Y-Wing fighter by Twi鈥檒ek Hera Syndulla.鈥
The second entry is a pipe organ that plays 鈥淭he Rebel Fleet鈥 theme.
鈥淭his is the most unique build as the team chose to use an embedded controller (a programmable chip using the C+ language),鈥 Jacobson said. 鈥淭he two other teams chose to stick with PLCs (Programable Logic Controllers). With the PLCs, the teams use industrial automation techniques to create the timing and duration required to make something sound like music.鈥
The final entry is designed after a Jawa Sandcrawler and plays the 鈥淐antina Band鈥 theme on recycled automotive brake drums and rotors.
鈥淭his build has proven to be very challenging. It is unique from other Twisted Metal Mayhem events in that the end-product needs to operate without human intervention. They must be automated,鈥 Jacobson said. 鈥淭hat little twist has made it a true capstone type project for all various students enrolled. I have seen sparks turn into fires (actually and figuratively) during this project and am happy to share the end results.鈥
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