The Durham Boat Company, founded in 1982, specializes in the creation of rowing and sculling equipment. In order to create these components, two pieces of carbon fiber are placed together with a syntactic foam mixture in the middle. Currently, the Durham Boat Company creates this syntactic foam through scooping and measuring ingredients by hand and combining them into a mixing machine. This process takes upwards of 60 minutes, and is neither efficient nor accommodating for company expansion. The automated mixing system that has been designed allows for the syntactic foam to be created quickly, accurately, and with a few pushes of a button. This new system will allow the Durham Boat Company to produce a higher volume of syntactic foam through the utilization of Arduino microcontrollers, load cells, liquid dispensing pumps, screw feeders, and hoppers. With this, the Durham Boat Company will have the capability to keep up with ever-increasing customer demand.
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Last Name
Zachary
Wright
Meghan
Stickney
Matthew
Reggio
Devon
Bryson
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Conference URC
Event Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering (ISE)