7. Budget

Categories of Cost	Materials	Amount of the Material	Cost per Item	Total Cost
Mechanism	Clear, hard plastic for the final prototype	1	$0.00 (provided by a team member)	$0.00
	Frame for the final prototype built from hard plastic (built in the machine shop)	1	$0.00 (provided by a team member)	$0.00
	3-D hitch for the model jeep (built on the 3-D printer)	1	$0.00 (provided by the machine shop)	$0.00
	Plastic container (used to test the transduction mechanism before the final prototype)	1	$43.00	$43.00
	Super Epoxy glue	2	$13.99	$27.98
Experiment	Bicarbonate indicator solution (used to test the amount of carbon dioxide present when plants are exposed to the car exhaust): potassium chloride, thymol blue cresol red, ethanol, sodium bicarbonate	1	$0.00 (used the Chemistry department resources to make the solution)	$0.00
	Balloons (acts as the source of carbon dioxide when blown up, for the final presentation)	1	$2.00	$2.00
	Carbon dioxide meter (needed to measure the efficiency of the carbon dioxide to oxygen conversions done by the plants; cannot measure the converted carbon dioxide in the experiments or in the final prototype if not present, and cannot analyze any data to indicate the efficiency and the usefulness of the mechanism)	2	$201.88	$403.76
Horticulture	English Ivy	3	$3.33	$10.00
			TOTAL	$486.74

Table 2. This shows the expenses that will occur during the making of this devices. The expenses will have to be readjusted to meet the design teams goal of $486.74.