{"id":54,"date":"2013-11-07T09:19:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T09:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattbates.ca\/point-of-view\/?p=54"},"modified":"2015-07-28T12:48:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T12:48:28","slug":"drop-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattbates.ca\/point-of-view\/drop-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Drop Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Drop Tower<\/p><\/div>\n

Exhibit:<\/b>\u00a0Drop Tower
\nVenue:<\/b>\u00a0Adventure Science Center
\nLocation:<\/b>\u00a0Nashville, Tennessee, USA
\nDate:<\/b>\u00a0June, 2008
\nClient:<\/b>\u00a0Adventure Science Center
\nContributors:<\/b>\u00a0Mystus (concept, design, metalwork and cabinetry, electronics, av, installation)
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\nVisitor Experience:<\/b>\u00a0The visitor presses a button to initiate lifting the experiment box. At the top of the 25′ tower they press another button to drop the box and watch what happens to the experiments during 1 second of weightless freefall.
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Client Requirements:<\/b>\u00a0Full turn-key fabrication and installation. Rail and motor brush implementation to reduce number of wires required. Wireless video transmission.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mystus Expertise:<\/b>\u00a0We had done a drop tower exhibit before for the Phaeno museum in Germany but this one was to be 25′ tall and had to incorporate wireless video.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unique Features:<\/b>\u00a0We used a ‘memory foam’ landing pad for a relatively gentle deceleration. The lift box and drop box were both powered through motor brushes on the guide rails. The drop box has a capacitor based power pack to smooth out voltage irregularities through the brushes and power the unit when rail power is turned off.<\/span><\/p>\n

Project Challenges:\u00a0<\/b>Our biggest challenges were constructing and painting the 25 foot tall steel structure, and to develop a wireless video transmission system that didn’t suffer the usual interference problems.<\/span><\/p>\n

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