Friday, November 8, 2013

Journal Entry Week 6

Goals

- Making a functionality car
- Being able to make the car move on its own for a certain amount of time
- I want to make the car battery powered or powered by a crank


Take off Motor on toy boat at home, attach to back


This week I figured out the design and how it will look like towards the end. I know I want wood as my base but I don't want a lot of wood because then the fan would be pointless. The more weight the less the car will move. As you see in the picture above the wood gets thicker towards the end and that's ultimately how I will do it, mostly for aero dynamics. But my car will have the same sized wheels in the front and back, not like in the picture above. The fan will be attached towards the back for ultimate power. A stand will be placed on the back to hold up the fan and for more stability.

One of the next steps I want to accomplish is figuring out the fan. I sad previously that I will take the motor off of my toy boat at home but I realized that it might be too small and too weak to move the car. I will need to do research on toy fans and see which one is the best bang for my buck. It has to be small but also some what powerful. Throughout this week I will take stamps leading up to accomplishing this task.

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