I have now finished my car. the written assignment is due on tuesday and we will race the cars after that. my car goes an average of 3.6 seconds down the track which is much slower compared to others in the class. i think this is because of the shape and accuracy of mine and also the weight of the car has a big impact. below are some photos of my finished car
In class we have been developing our cars. We had to finish them then use the two big cogs which were 50 or 60 teeth and the three small gears that are 8, 10 or 12 teeth and race them with the six different combinations to see which is the fastest for your car. I have the 60 teeth with the 8 teeth gears on and my fastest time is 3.7 seconds down the track. I then went to race mine yesterday and found my moter was making a funny noise and the wheels were also sounding weird. Mr Ward had to get a new axel and wheels and now the car is working well but is now over 4 seconds down the track. next lesson i need to check everything is the way i want it before cutting the wires and permanently soildering them together. this will mean i cannot change the cog combination. After this i will lubricate the wheels and axis and keep improving aspects of the car to make it faster. i also need to start the written part of the assignment whihc is due in two weeks.
in class lately we have been making our cars. I had to change my design towards the beggining to make it mmore simple. i also had to alter the measurements and Mr Ward's car didn't go straight as the distance between the wheel and centre on each side was different as he hadn't acounted fro the cog. Yesturday i finished the whhel axis and hot glues them onto the car. i had to cut the front axis as it is narrower. My car does go straight and i am happy with the way it is so far. Next lesson i will beging to glue the battery holder on, the switch and engine then i will use the different conbinations of cogs to race it and see which is faster.
This term we will be making our own cars and race them against others in the class. we will also be looking at the best designs for the car to go faster and the best combination of the cogs. so far i have designed mine and made it out of a light wood. I have tried to make the design as small as possible and a curved shape so it will be fast and aero dynamic. In the kits given to us we got 4 wheels, axels, battery holder, moter, switch and cogs. so far i have only finished my design, made it out of wood and sanded the edges. Next lesson i will start to mark out where the axels will go and the length they will need to be as i will have to cut the front one smaller. I had to modify my original design and made it less curved and more accurate. this took me a while as i also struggled cutting it out but i am happy with the way my design is going.
In class at the moment we are working on Pro Desktop. we are working through the text book till the end of chapter 7 to gain experience. I found it really hard to begin with but now i am starting to understand the process much more. We have to do a tutorial due by next week also which i haven't started but will do it soon. I have just finished the Ball point pen in the text book and am now up to chapter 7. After finishing this we have an assignment to design and create a torch for defense in pro desktop. This will cool to design but hard for me to create. I am improving and understanding pro desktop more each lesson but i still make mistakes that really fustrate me. Next lesson i will begin to work on a intermediate tutorial to give me enough time before it is due.
After finishing our resort model we had to present a 3-5 minute oral with a form of multimedia focusing on the uniqueness of our resort and the sustainable aspect that it embraces. Chase and i used a porwerpoint as our multimeadia and talked about the resort location, facillities and hydorelectricity, rapidwall and other sustainable aspects that we have incorporated in our design. We also talked about our time management plan and the construction process we went through in making our resort.
I am really happy with the way our resort truned out. I found this topic of work really fun as we were in the the workshop every lesson not stuck in the classroom.
Today in class the teacher was away so we had time to start working on our 5 minute oral presentation we have to present next term with our partner. The presentaioin has to have a form of multimedia which we decided to do on a powerpoint. We have to talk about the uniqueness of our resort and the sustainable designs involved. We will talk about the materials used in the making of our resort and the way in which ours is special. Our presentaion will have pictures and we will stand up and speak as the powerpoint plays. We have got a plan on what we are going to talk about and we have started the powerpoint. We will need to take photos of the finished project when we complete it and write the speech. We are happy with the way ours is coming along but may have to sacrifice some of our designs on the project as we wmay run out of time. Originally we decided to do a fence as the entrance to the resort but as we have made the building and put the roof on there will be no room. Also the docks and bridges on each building, we may not have time to make both or even one as the making of the 3 buildings has taken us much longer than we expected.