The Remote Control (RC) boat Project:

I came up with the idea of beating the Guinness record for personal and academic reasons. My academic perspective was that this project makes a clear goal that requires well researched shape, such as body design, turbine blades, even motor casing that offers perfect fit for the motors, screws threads for the motor case. And instead of getting premade blades, I made them with 3D printing so the project can become more challenging, offering more learning for me. 

The boat was small enough to become the record since there was no record to beat. The design was shaping up for the final stages and I went to fill out the application, and found out that although there was no record, they had put an unannounced minimum dimension, which was: 35 x 30 mm (1.38 in x 1.18 in), and my boat was 40 mm. Since I don’t have the engineering capacity to create and assemble smaller power parts and battery, I had to look for people to collaborate with that can help me on solving that issue. My goal was the destination, which was learning to be highly skilled at 3D printing at even the smallest scale. The final result would have been a plus, but I had to pause since I didn’t have the bandwidth to dedicate more time and expenses on 3D printing, given that it isn’t heavily related to my classes (at the time at least); it’s not over yet.

My scheduled second attempt is summer 2024