barrowTech

Solve and visualize where to place weight in a weighbarrow to minimize effort required to lift wheelbarrow when given height and expected load.

Description

Built with a MATLAB executable file, this program takes the change in height in picking up the wheelbarrow and your expected load and calculates a location in the wheelbarrow to place rocks to balance out the torque of the pickup lift, minimizing effort required of the pusher. This information is obtained through execution by the python-flask backend as an API response to calls made by the React-typescript frontend. In React, the rotation and stone placement is visualized. The wheelbarrow was designed and balanced in Blender.

Our goal is to solve this physics problem, but also to create a framwork where constants in the MATLAB executive file can be changed to match the size, height, density and wheel (fulcrum) specificity of any wheelbarrow and load - calculating their optimum stone placement as well.

Getting Started

Dependencies

Requirements: OS

• Windows 10 Apps
• NodeJS
• Flask
• flask_cores (Python library)
• Matlab R2024a (24.1)

Backend setup and launch:

Inside the 'backend' directory run the command: python app.py to launch the back-end processes

Frontend setup and launch:

Inside the barrowTech directory:

• run the command: npm install for the complete front-end package installation
• run the command: npm dev run to launch the front-end processes and Help Any advise for common problems or issues.

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