pic: Mousetrap car for engineering class

[joshy1323]

wow am i the only person who has never seen something like this before? i think this is great and im going to bring this up to my team and see if i can set up a school wide competition like this to try and attract more bright young members. thanks for the inspiration. nice car btw

[fabalafae]

Hey that competition idea is so much better than ours... the mousetrap car competiton in our class was only speed and distance based for the car traveling in a straight line. It would have been awesome to do a turn in there somewhere.

[DUCKIE]

Looks neat. I never had to make mousetrap cars... We made CO2 cars in middleschool though.

In another class, we had to use a mousetrap to lift 3 different weights so far off the ground... but our device had to fit within X-amount of space. I do not remember if weight of the device was important... but I know materials cost was.

[Aren_Hill]

hence why the final was made out of carbon fiber as an upgrade
(eleanor is apparently a classmate thats disgruntled about losing lol)

[XXShadowXX]

Does the trap have to snap?

Because this would free up greater force over a longer period which you could increase via a small gear box vex would work, that would give you a bit more troque, but the trap probably has to snap, and a microgear box is most likely expensive, and or illegal...

thats about all i can suggest

[Aren_Hill]

The final car has been raced, and yes we had to set it off using the bait trap, the amount of adjustable stuff in the end is what won it for me, that and consistency

[Eleanor]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSf29JM04K4

maybe you should stop deleting my comments
yes i'm very upset i lost

how do i load a picture?

[Aren_Hill]

Originally Posted by Eleanor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSf29JM04K4

maybe you should stop deleting my comments
yes i'm very upset i lost

how do i load a picture?

(your post was deleted because it was basically an attack against me, i don't mind this but its not something put up with on this forum)
i liked your design. And i gotta give you credit for the last second change to beat me once.


welcome to chiefdelphi

[pogenwurst]

That looks really cool.

One of the things that was quite a bummer about AP Physics class last year was that while the "lower-level" physics classes got to build mousetrap cars, water rockets, etc. we in the "advanced" classes "didn't have time" for projects.

[Eleanor]

ha ha i know i thought we could actually beat the carbon fiber titanium axle machine with our balsa wood contration. how can i put up a picture of ours?

[Aren_Hill]

Originally Posted by Eleanor

how can i put up a picture of ours?

You go to CD-Media up at the top and then there is an upload option

your car definitely wins it for being cost efficient, i should've tried making mine out of balsa wood it woulda been interesting

here's my final which has been up http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/32132