Our Content Guidelines in the sidebar clearly states "No homework questions", and while I might make exceptions since capstones are last undergrad project that you (the student) will likely ever do, I will lock any post that asks basic questions that would take very little effort for you to find the answer to.

Please read the examples of good questions, bad questions in our submission guidelines before posting. Some additional examples of questions you should avoid:

Examples of bad questions:

• How do I build X?

  • Why it's bad: Too vague and you're basically asking someone else to handhold you through the entire design process.

• What is the best design for X?

  • Why it's bad: Too vague and shows that you didn't do enough research to have some idea of what the best designs might be.

• What is the best way to bypass <project restriction here>?

  • Why it's bad: This is another thinly veiled way of asking us to come up with a solution for you. As the student, you are responsible for coming up with technical solutions to your technical problems. Come up with several solutions first before coming here for help.

tl;dr Put in some legwork before coming to AskEngineers for help; if you didn't spend at least a couple hours looking for answers and coming up with possible solutions on your own, then you didn't try hard enough. Ask informed, specific questions when making a post here, or it will be locked.

To paraphrase Ken Thompson:

"The discovery of how to do something is a revelation that far surpasses any benefit obtained by being told how to do it."

Thanks to /u/wantagh for bringing this to the mods' attention in this post.