Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Design #2
Today is November 29, 2011. And David and I are so close to finishing our car! We did major improvements to our car. We continued our idea with the CDs as wheels. To make them stay straight we pocked holes in bottle caps with an awl. We put them on to the dowels that are our "Axels" and sandwiched our wheels in between them. At first we couldn't get the caps to go on the way we wanted and it didn't roll as well as it should have. Then we reversed the whole with the awl and made a perfect fit! Unfortunaly, our wheels didn't work to well, so David is going to problem solve this week. Then came the last problem, the balloon. We had a balloon, but we couldn't make it stay on the car without the CDs being pushed by it. We tried an extended platform for the balloon to lay on, but it wasn't enough. David and I are hoping to get together this weekend and finish the car and take some pictures!
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Ballon Car Design- Day 1
11/22/11-
Today David and I started the BCP. Two days away from Thanksgiving, we were full of joy when we started this project. I had brought in two normal CD's and David had two GameCube discs. He also brought in these bigger than average chopstick like things. We started brainstorming. We decided to go with the GameCube games in the front and the CDs in the back. This would give this car some more aerodynamic-ness. David also brought in a hot glue gun. But then we hit the obstacle,"What are we going to use for the body?" Our answer was right in front of us. To bring my CDs in, I had a Zoo Tycoon game holder. This was an almost perfect size for our BCP. We started glueing. Eventually we wound up with what looked like a frame of a car! Then the wheels. CDs are really thin, so they didn't want to stay up straight when we tried to roll the car. We ended our 52 minute adventure with a plan. David and I would collect Vitamin Water bottle caps from our friends to put on either side of the CDs and games. These would keep the CDs up straight. One problem; every other kid in the school has the same idea. We can get by that. Davids dad has this hole cutting device that makes a hole just big enough for those chopstick things to fit into. The CDs will be rolling quite nicely after that. We will get working on that for Tuesday! Pictures will be up later this week!
Today David and I started the BCP. Two days away from Thanksgiving, we were full of joy when we started this project. I had brought in two normal CD's and David had two GameCube discs. He also brought in these bigger than average chopstick like things. We started brainstorming. We decided to go with the GameCube games in the front and the CDs in the back. This would give this car some more aerodynamic-ness. David also brought in a hot glue gun. But then we hit the obstacle,"What are we going to use for the body?" Our answer was right in front of us. To bring my CDs in, I had a Zoo Tycoon game holder. This was an almost perfect size for our BCP. We started glueing. Eventually we wound up with what looked like a frame of a car! Then the wheels. CDs are really thin, so they didn't want to stay up straight when we tried to roll the car. We ended our 52 minute adventure with a plan. David and I would collect Vitamin Water bottle caps from our friends to put on either side of the CDs and games. These would keep the CDs up straight. One problem; every other kid in the school has the same idea. We can get by that. Davids dad has this hole cutting device that makes a hole just big enough for those chopstick things to fit into. The CDs will be rolling quite nicely after that. We will get working on that for Tuesday! Pictures will be up later this week!
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