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Rescue Can
Developing a can that can be used to locate stranded people.
Posts
Welcome to our blog posts where we write about our progress as we move through the year.
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We are a mix of 4th and 5th form students. Seb, from U6, is acting as a consultant as he has completed the competition in previous years. Hi, I’m Tom and I’m in 4th form, I am the project manager for Rescue Can, This means I have to plan timings and delegate task and I…
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Last year team DROP really enjoyed making the parachute we Decided to make it our secondary mission this year. We are going to make some different designs of parachutes and then test the stability of them falling using gyroscope sensors. As it is quite hard to replicate the forces, the speeds and all the twisting…
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Here are our initial designs of the can. We are printing the prototypes on a Bambu A1 using an 0.8mm nozzle, so the print is quick. We are using PLA as it is biodegradable and inexpensive. Our first few attempts at the threading didn’t work as they were too tight but we now have that…
LWC CanSat 2025/26 