THE BUCKANEERS

Welcome to our FEDD project webpage! We are a team of first year engineering students at North Carolina State University.

Learn more about the application of the engineering design process during the creation of our portable and light weight fabric bucket.

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The fabric bucket project was overall a very helpful experience that gave our team many life lessons to use later down the road. The...

The Buckaneers were a part of the afternoon session. We all came professionally dressed with our bucket and poster in hand. The buckets...

This is an image of us testing our second prototype by filling it with water from a shower. After filling the bucket up to about three...

To help prevent our bucket from leaking from the seams, we decided to seal them with glue. We finally decided on this "e6000" glue...

We tested our first prototype in the bathroom of one of our dorms. In order to avoid wasting latex, we only coated the canvas half way....

In search of a place to sew prototypes and the final project, our group decided to that we would attend the orientation of the Makerspace...

One of the important tasks was to analyze the pros and cons of each fabric and laminate to narrow down our selection to one. After...

At this point in our project we were still deciding on a final design for our bucket. We each decided to bring 3 potential structures for...

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