The Singapore Amazing Machine Competition (SAMC) is a science competition organized by the science center, DSO laboratories and the school of science and Technology, where teams dream up and construct a complex machine that performs a seemingly simple task in as many steps as possible(Rube Goldberg).
The challenge was to make a machine that would ( in celebration of 50 years of Singapore) represent 50 years of Singapore on a flat vertical surface and in as many steps as possible.
we designed and constructed, a 2 meter by 2 meter square, on the sides of which was where the action took place with each side representing 25 years. In the center of the square, was an Arduino mega, controlling the whole system.
The challenge was to make a machine that would ( in celebration of 50 years of Singapore) represent 50 years of Singapore on a flat vertical surface and in as many steps as possible.
we designed and constructed, a 2 meter by 2 meter square, on the sides of which was where the action took place with each side representing 25 years. In the center of the square, was an Arduino mega, controlling the whole system.
There is an arduino mega in the middle of the machine to which all the wires on all four sides run into. The machine is a square where the first side (out of the four) was depicting the birth of Singapore (when Sir Stamford Raffles landed in Singapore and the separation of Singapore from Malaysia). The second side was the development of Singapore ("SG 25") with a crane lowers a container with barrels, which fuels the oil refineries in Singapore. It also shows the racial harmony in Singapore which was, and still is key for the development of Singapore. The next (third side) shows "SG 50", starting with a Singapore airlines jet carrying the national flag of Singapore. Next it shows the flyer spinning and water coming out of the merlions mouth. The final side shows the future of Singapore, through our ideas (such as rocket men, hover boards, Singapore setting up colonies on the moon, e.t.c) for SG 100 with a fully automated presentation being projected onto our machine.