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Engineering Project, Fall 2003 |
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Objective: Construct a car no longer than 16 inches long that can carry an egg on its front for 20 feet to a wall without the egg busting. Many came, few succeded. Here is the construction for my group's car that got 3rd, just under the one that had a senser on it to tell it to stop. |
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Our car from the top and from the front. |
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Everyone did his part in the modifications of the little race car. This picture was just for the presentation, actually. No one is actually doing anything in this picture. |
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West trying to figure a way to keep the string on the switch to turn it off after it got pulled taught |
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Our car on the approach. |
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Finished perfectly! "How did it do this?," you may think. I'll tell you. The spindles on the front and back wheels have about 18 or 19 feet of string wrapped around them. After that distance, the string is pulled taught and pulls the front tire and makes it turn to the left while turning off the motor. The car is going fast enough that is slides its side into the wall. This will protect the egg that will be placed on the front of the car for the competition. West called it the "power slide." |
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This is how the car looked for the race...except it had an egg on the front....and was painted. |
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