NOVA Engineering Design Project (EGR 122)

For my Engineering Design class at Northern Virginia Community College, my group and I designed a prototype design called the "FlameTarp." This design was brought up due to the disastrous fires occurring in California at the time, and we thought to create a device that deploys a large, fireproof tarp over a tent or small-scaled building in times of emergency. The FlameTarp is essentially a cannon that stores the tarp; it is deployed through the press of a button and shoots out two ends of the tarps (with stakes at the end for grounding) that covers the building. The angle of the cannon is calculated by an included Octave program that just requires the user to input the dimensions of the house (length, width, height).