What a fun, interesting, and frustrating project. For everything that went right, 3 things went wrong but I am very happy with how it all turned out.

Budget:

I was far below my allowed budget! I was able to build it all for $110 and a lot of man hours!

Process

There were many steps to completing my project

1. Ideation: I chose perpetual motion machine because the idea of them has always enthralled me and Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the main reasons that I am an engineer.
2. Design: I came up with a few different Ideas, but wood working while integrating tools was the one I liked the best and ended up going with.
3. Materials: I needed an assortment of materials to build my project, and more importantly tools
4. I was able to get all of that back home in Parker using some of my Dad’s power tools
5. Build
   1. Gather Materials
   2. Sand Materials
   3. Measure and Mark
   4. Saw out model piece
   5. Use model to make the rest to eliminate human error
   6. Router out extra wood, so it fits like a puzzle
   7. Sand down all ridges
   8. Drill 3/8 bolt hole
   9. Make cross bars
   10. Router crossbars
   11. Drill Hammers
   12. Glue pieces and fasten with eye bots to dry
   13. ROuter along all edges to make it look very professional
   14. Make small and large model Trapezoids
   15. Make all remaining from model
   16. Glue trapezoids together
   17. Pre-drill holes into trapezoid blocks
   18. Drill in trapezoid Blocks
   19. Fill cracks with wood Putty
   20. Attach hammers
   21. Measure height
   22. Design stand
   23. Router Base
   24. Router legs
   25. Use a spade bit to drill hole for dowel
   26. Insert dowel

These steps seem simple and straightforward but there were many hiccups. I needed to router first so that there was enough flat space for the tool itself, so I had to take it almost all the way apart. The eye bolt length was the total length, not the threaded part so they were too short. The router had issues staying in place so one piece was totally destroyed. The angle of the legs was off so I had to remake them. The small dowel broke. One of the hammer handles was too thin and broke. The trapezoids were too large and interfered so they had to be remade. Other than that though, it was really a lot of fun