Who: Biomech Samus and YOU
What: Right what it says on the tin - BioMechanical Engineering class
When: Thursday, February 3rd
Where: Room 214

( Boring lectures beget butt staring. )

Who: Lighter/Handymen, Samus, students, lurkers ect.
What: BioMech meets Wood Shop.
Where: Wood Shop class place.
When: backdated a smidgen to Thursday Feb 4th
Warnings: clocks


It could never honestly be said that Lighter was all that creative. Especially when it came to lesson plans but when the mention [or his roundabout vague tsun-tsun suggestion for a mention] of a joint class, Samus, almost entirely for the sake of doing something different decided to oblige. A note was left on her white board for her students as to where her BioMech class was being held this week...

In Wood Shop class.

"On your desks you'll find a box with various wind up clock parts." The blonde said. Much like the one pictured in the link provided only perhaps with with 90% more wood parts. "I've deliberately removed some of the parts from the box which you'll need to remake in order to complete the clock."

She looked to Lighter, that being more of his specialty. Making a few wooden gears to mesh in with the metal ones; that shouldn't be too hard, right?

"Every box comes with very simple instructions. If you can not follow them I will be very disappointed. He'll probably be very disappointed. You don't want to make us disappointed." Samus was probably going to be disappointed. "Lighter can better explain in more detail what exactly you need to build and how it should fit in the clocks."

"Once you complete the clocks you'll learn how they store energy to work." This is where Samus does her part; a boring lecture while bending over the chalk board and writing notes. "There are two different types of energy; potential [example: chemical, gravitational or electrical energy] or kinetic energy [example: thermal energy]. Windup clocks such as this use potential energy transferred from your hand that you wind up and store in the clock's accumulator. That's that windup spring in there that slowly releases the tension over a long period of time, and you'll hear the clock's distinctive tick as it does so."

Samus exchanged one last look with Lighter before shrugging, done with her notes. "If you don't have any questions, go to it."

[Samus has been busy gathering her notes Biomech has TOTALLY BEEN TAUGHT SO FAR IN SPIRIT and this TOTALLY BACKDATED TO THURSDAY and waits for students/bothersome lurking faculty to filter in/take attendance before starting her thrilling lecture.] Okay. You may remember from last class I mentioned we are going to start learning more about prosthetic limbs and bio-robotics.

Today I'm going to cover basic prosthetics and then we're going to work on a project for the next few weeks.

( basically the most boring class ever )

[[Samus has been teaching this class in spirit all these months, seriously. ;_; Also; backdated to Thursday lololol orz]]

*writes most this down on the chalk board as she says it out loud, erasing and rewriting as necessary*

Okay... BioMechanical Engineering is using technology to solve problems which address challenges in the fields biology, medicine and warfare. This branches off into many different subjects which I'll go into more detail in later classes...

• Biomaterials (artificial hips, pace makers)
  
• Biomechanics (mechanical principals on living organisms)
  
• Bionics (turning nature into mechanical design)
  
• Biosensors (canary in a cage)
  
• Biotechnology (genetics, cell biology, food engineering, super viruses!)
  
• Cryobiology (freezing your living body for the future)
  
• Drug delivery (No, not what you're probably thinking.)
  
• Metabolic engineering (fermenting beer!)
  
• Bioweaponry (...)
  
• Stem cell research and Tissue Engineering (building you better organs and body parts)
  
• Biorobotics (prosthetic limbs, androids)
  

There's a lot more than I just listed but I won't go into detail this particular class...

But it's really important to understand how energy works before we can start studying any of that, building death rays robots or any of that fun stuff. Today we're going to do a simple project to help demonstrate how you can use your own bodies to produce renewable energy.
Your body is constantly producing energy, so long as your heart is beating well... even then there's weird exceptions. If you've ever shuffled your feet on a carpet, touched a person and then shocked them, you've seen a little bit of that energy in action; That's static electricity. Not quite the same that your body produces internally though...

If you wanted to move your arm, electrical impulses would travel from your brain, through your nerves and command the cells in your muscles to contract or relax. That moves your arm. This is an electrochemical process, which means that it uses electricity made with chemical molecules. In other words, the electricity in the brain is not produced by electrons flowing the way they do through a household electrical wire. Instead, the brain's electricity is caused by the movements of electrically charged molecules through the neurons' membranes.

But! We can trick the body's muscles into contracting or relaxing by simulating that with an electrode. Reviving heart-attack victims by electric shock is a good example of this.

We can also reverse engineer this process, and generate electricity from our muscle movements. So that brings me to today's project...

( On your desks you'll find... )

Any questions?

*Otacon casually resting on the teacher's desk. Samus (Jeff) is sitting behind him*

Hello everyone!

I'm Dr. Hal Emmerich, but I'd rather you all call me Otacon. Ms. Aran has asked me to help her with classes today since I happen to be very knowledgeable about this particular subject. *waves at Samus! Jeff* This will actually combine both of her classes and will be a bit longer! I hope no one minds. I think you'll like what I have in store...

*Pushes a box in plain view that had been hidden behind the teacher's desk* Natasha is going to kill us once she finds I used our money for this and a private suite.

Has anyone seen the anime, Mobile Suit Gundam? *pushes glasses up his nose* It's a bit old, but rather enjoyable. Unlike its super robot cousins, Gundam attempted realism in robot design and weaponry, as well as the thematic and ethical roles of the robots themselves. In a way, it influenced me and what I do with my life today, so I thought it would be fitting for me to share this passion with you.

Today you'll all be building your own robots!

*Takes out his own model:*

This is what we'll all be building. Don't worry, I picked the easiest garage kit models I could find. I should note that these Gundams ACTUALLY WORK once you're done with them. However, I regret to say that this model does not have the flamethrowers, since they've been banned from the market. *sighs sadly*

We'll be working a few things into your Gundam:

The Minovsky Ultracompact Fusion Reactor:
The Minovsky particles are produced as a byproduct of the helium-3 fusion reaction were recycled to keep that reaction going. The Minovsky particles that form the I-field lattice also help catalyze the fusion reaction.

Active Mass Balance Auto-Control (AMBAC):
Fundamental technology that allows for thrusterless manoeuvring in the zero-G environment of space by mobile suits by means of precise movement control of their limbs. That's right, your Gundam will be able to fly, short distances!

Beam Rifle:
This device stores Minovsky particles in a high-energy pre-compressed state, so that only a small amount of additional energy is required to trigger their fusion into mega-particles. It uses the energy core to fire tiny lasers from it's gun. These are actually pretty harmless as I wouldn't want anyone to get hurt right? *laughs* Just don't point them at a friend's eye.

You'll have to be very careful when building them, since they all have the Minovsky mini-nuclear reaction kit in them, and it comes with some plutonium. If you have questions about the physics or helium-3 fusion reactions, don't be afraid to ask me!

Miss Aran shall be taking attendance and then I can hand each of you a kit so you can start building these! I'll also be playing some anime episodes on the projector screen, so you can have an idea of what your little robots can do! Just remember, it will be on a much smaller scale, and it won't involve space travel. Sadly.

Hnnngh~ I hope I know what I'm doing. Mechanical Engineering and Armed Weaponry don't exactly have suitable themes to tie in with all this festival stuff...


I know a number of you have been curious as to what I'm doing for the festival, and I'm happy to announce I've finalized plans with Snake and Olimar for this one. We're going to bring you karaoke night here at SumaBura. Multi-lingual karaoke.

On the day of the festival we'll be setting up in room 106, which is one of the larger classrooms located fairly close to the cafeteria. We'll be selecting songs that are sung in various languages and come from different cultures. Snake will have a device that's going to translate them. I'll let him elaborate on that in more detail... Who knows... maybe you'll even pick up a few phrases in another language~

If you have any music you'd like to share, go ahead, burn it to a disk or something and bring it in. The more the merrier.

Even if you aren't one of our students, or if you don't feel comfortable singing I encourage you to come and watch at least. Come... watch and laugh. Have a good time. Do what you kids do. Just don't throw stuff at or discourage whoever's on stage less you want me or Snake to return the favor. Ordinarily, we wouldn't allow beverages/food in the classrooms but since it's so close to the cafeteria I think we can make a special exception in this case; if you want to eat and watch the show at the same time. I'm so not picking up after you guys though. Save it for the janitor. Teachers bored out of their minds or brave enough to give the mic a try are also welcome to pop in. I know I won't until after I get a few beers in me...

We'll be doing this after Geno's talent show, since I suspect several of you may want to preform both here and there. Don't want to steal your thunder, Geno. It'll be a good chance to loosen up and wind down after the talent show.



Additionally, I noticed none of you have signed up for the tournament yet, which'll happen the day after the festival. Not that I blame you for being hesitant... But if you're having trouble picking a partner, I'll be improvising my next class to try and help you find a suitable partner, if you haven't already. I'll help you find someone who will balance your strengths and weaknesses, or compliment your fighting style. I myself, am considering entering in the tournament. If any other teachers want to assist in this partner-matching, please, by all means, don't let me stop you...

If you don't want to enter in the tournament, that's ok too. No harm in watching. I hope. Maybe it'll be a bust and no one will enter after all, Porky. Heehee.

Any questions?