Samuel Masters Capstone

For my capstone I decided to make a guide for making your own affordable dumbbells from home. I decided to do this project because I think that exercise is very important and that most people don’t have the funds or the motivation to start so I wanted to make it easier for people. For my process, I started by doing calculations for how much cement to use and I bought some supplies from the hardware store like floor flanges, steel pipes, concrete and buckets. Next, I attached the flanges to the ends of the pipe and put the ends in buckets of concrete one at a time. My product is three concrete dumbbells, one 20 lb dumbbell and a set of two 40 lb dumbbells. I made the initial 20 lb dumbbell to test out the math and see if all the measurements are correct but I already have a set of 20’s at home so I didn’t see a point to making another one. During this project I learned a lot about cement and how it sets, what it’s made out of and how much weight decreases when it dries. I think that that is pretty useful because I plan on making more weights out of cement in the future. That is what I did for my capstone project. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GEc0OuLfIllRaIRbozdgbsJn7WFqnKEkfo-jxeGKEaQ/edit?usp=sharing