Hybrid Car
In this project for STEM we created our own car. It was of course minimized so that it was made out of wood. My group decided to make a car powered by rubber bands. Rubber bands use a spring to slingshot the car forward, the car has a high acceleration at first but once the rubber bands lose there power it it slows down quickly. At first we thought of using water but that proved to be way to hard. The thought of rubber bands passed Jordans mind so that we decided to use the rubber bands. Our car in the end actually proved to be the fastest in the class. We had a big problem with time management in that on the last day we were still on the powerpoint. Though like I said in the end the car turned out be a really good car. Overall it was worth all the stress.
The first day we did this project we were given the guidelines of what and what not to use, then we were able to brainstorm ideas for the type of power we were going to use. The first few ideas we had were just really hard to utilize such as a car that used water as its power. Though we eventually settled on using rubber bands to power the car. Over the next few days we started building our car. At first we had a box with two axles on the bottom, along with four wheels attached to those. Our design began to morph after a test where the back axle shot out of the bottom of the car and into the wall. The car eventually just had three wheels. We had the original front axle in the front and one disc in the back. Our car in the end was very long like a drag racer, that is why we named it the DRG Streamliner. It turned out the car became the fastest in the class because of how it accelerated very quickly and slowed down at the end to an eventuall stop.
Reflection
As I have said in many of my other projects, this was a great group to work with. Although there were time management issues along with the distribution of work, it was an overall good group. Every group is not without fault but this group was on task most of the time along with the fact that our car turned out to be the fastest and fastest accelerating car in our class. Though after all the tension around getting the project done the car turned out to be awesome. We decided to keep it assembled so that we can show it off later in the year rather than dismantling. I just hope the car still works when we do happen to show it off.
The first day we did this project we were given the guidelines of what and what not to use, then we were able to brainstorm ideas for the type of power we were going to use. The first few ideas we had were just really hard to utilize such as a car that used water as its power. Though we eventually settled on using rubber bands to power the car. Over the next few days we started building our car. At first we had a box with two axles on the bottom, along with four wheels attached to those. Our design began to morph after a test where the back axle shot out of the bottom of the car and into the wall. The car eventually just had three wheels. We had the original front axle in the front and one disc in the back. Our car in the end was very long like a drag racer, that is why we named it the DRG Streamliner. It turned out the car became the fastest in the class because of how it accelerated very quickly and slowed down at the end to an eventuall stop.
Reflection
As I have said in many of my other projects, this was a great group to work with. Although there were time management issues along with the distribution of work, it was an overall good group. Every group is not without fault but this group was on task most of the time along with the fact that our car turned out to be the fastest and fastest accelerating car in our class. Though after all the tension around getting the project done the car turned out to be awesome. We decided to keep it assembled so that we can show it off later in the year rather than dismantling. I just hope the car still works when we do happen to show it off.