Bad News: We spent seven hours building a car that still does not meet the requirements.
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Day 3: Perseverance Paid Off... Kind of.
Good News: After seven hours of precious Saturday hours, we built a vehicle that could go more than a foot.
Day 3: Pencils? Toothpicks? Markers? WE DON'T KNOW!!!
We are going use toothpicks again. After starting to use markers, we realized they would be too massive to use... now we are using a combination of markers and toothpicks.
Day 3: Maybe We Should Have Planned Better...
Since pencils have sides to them (they are not perfectly smooth), we are not going to use them any more. Instead, we decided to use markers, which are round. I knew from the beginning that the first drafts were not going to work perfectly or that the second drafts were not the best either. What I didn't know was that both drafts would end up being such a let-down. Both of us are going crazy trying to find a solution to our problem with the CDs. This may be the answer.... using markers.
Day 3: Disaster (Part 2)
Okay, this officially sucks.
Car 1 completely failed.
Guess what happened to Car 2? THE EXACT SAME THING! We are starting to realize that maybe CDs as wheels weren't the best idea... Even so, we are obviously not going to give up this easily. We stuck with using CDs and decided to stop using toothpicks for the structure of our car. Instead, Emily had the fabulous idea of using pencils- they are like huge toothpicks! Okay, so there's an up side and a down side to this. First of all, pencils are bigger and sturdier, so the hole of the CD would not be as big compared to the toothpicks. One thing that could hurt is the mass of the pencils, since they are a lot heavier.
Car 1 completely failed.
Guess what happened to Car 2? THE EXACT SAME THING! We are starting to realize that maybe CDs as wheels weren't the best idea... Even so, we are obviously not going to give up this easily. We stuck with using CDs and decided to stop using toothpicks for the structure of our car. Instead, Emily had the fabulous idea of using pencils- they are like huge toothpicks! Okay, so there's an up side and a down side to this. First of all, pencils are bigger and sturdier, so the hole of the CD would not be as big compared to the toothpicks. One thing that could hurt is the mass of the pencils, since they are a lot heavier.
Day 3: update
With little belief that we could actually make a car that wouldn't let us down for at least five seconds, we started building Emily's Second Draft Vehicle (referred to as Car #2). So far, Car #2 looks like it will work better than our first car did, but that could just be because we know nothing could be worse than our first vehicle... so, in a way, we could only get better.
Day 3: Disaster
We had such high hopes.. In this case, confidence didn't really come in handy...
As we were working on Shivani's Second Draft Vehicle, we faced one major problem. After finally getting the CD wheels in their rightful places, it got really hard to keep the car off the ground. The CDs kept slanting side to side and from their weight, the whole car would collapse one way or another- whichever way the CDs fell to. A whole lot of work went into taping on the balloon. Finally, with little hope left, we tested our car. It barely went two inches after the wheel at the head of the car slanted to one side, making the car fall to the ground. So much for that idea.
Bad News: Our first car was a total fail
Good News: We have a back-up plan (Emily's Second Draft Car!) that will...hopefully....work
As we were working on Shivani's Second Draft Vehicle, we faced one major problem. After finally getting the CD wheels in their rightful places, it got really hard to keep the car off the ground. The CDs kept slanting side to side and from their weight, the whole car would collapse one way or another- whichever way the CDs fell to. A whole lot of work went into taping on the balloon. Finally, with little hope left, we tested our car. It barely went two inches after the wheel at the head of the car slanted to one side, making the car fall to the ground. So much for that idea.
Bad News: Our first car was a total fail
Good News: We have a back-up plan (Emily's Second Draft Car!) that will...hopefully....work
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