Engineering Project Team: el Polo Loco. What are we doing?

Engineering Project Team: el Polo Loco

What are we doing?

Design/ Equipment

• Equipment: Two solar panels, a portable radio, Lab Pro, and a microphone

• We sent up a lab pro with microphone attached to ear phones that were attached to the solar paneled radio.

Expectations/ Hypothesis

• We expect that as the balloon climbs to greater heights the radio will begin to get louder

• We also expected that at every altitude stop we will receive better frequency.

Today’s Procedure • We attached our wires from the

solar panels to the radio• Then we hooked up a microphone

with the Lab Pro • We taped the microphone to the

earphones • Then turned everything on and sent

it up

Results

Pressure

2.56

2.58

2.6

2.62

2.64

2.66

2.68

2.7

2.72

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Time (Minutes)

Pre

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Pressure

Acknowledgements

• Our Mentor: Ben Babalon • Ms. B for guiding us through all of

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