Week 9 Post 1

6/3/12
This week was mostly centered around modifying and testing the car because the main body was done last week. The wheels were put on but they ended up being the stock wheels instead of the wheels that we printed out because the printed wheels won't be done for another couple of days. Other then this our overall design stayed the same as we originally planned and we spent most of our time testing different gear ratios and fixing the car when it broke. In hindsight we should have made the car sturdier so that it could withstand the strain of so much testing. We also were entered in the solar sprint car competition. This did not go as planned at all as after 3 hours and 45 minutes of waiting for the race a strong breeze lifted our car up and smashed it to pieces on the ground. Our car was finished and we had the foresight to take pictures of it before this happened.

 This is a side view of our finished car

Front view of the finished product

Broken car
-JDN