Wednesday 7 December 2011

Mousetrap Vehicle tests

Our vehicle is made of CD's, Records, toy truck wheels, plastic pipe, Duct tape, a mouse trap and fishing line. The back Wheels are made of records attached to the toy truck wheels and the front wheels are made of CD's attached to toy truck wheels. The chassis is made of plastic pipe. The back wheels rotate very well and don't spin our when the trap is set off. The front wheels are somewhat wobbly because of the axle. I think we need to straighten out the front axle.
Our vehicle fades to the right slowly when it is moving. To fix this I think we need to work on the front of the vehicle to straighten it out.
The mousetrap vehicle we made when around 6 meters every time we started it. The farthest it went was 7 meters.
To improve our vehicles performance we need to fix the front axle by bending the axle to make it straight, and center the front of the chassis.

This is our mousetrap vehicle.

Our car before we set the trap off.

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