Mouse Trap Car: Journal 5

Today Kevin and I both worked on designing our car in Autodesk Inventor. We are almost done so soon we can put it all into an assembly file.

Mouse Trap Car: Journal 4

Today Kevin began designing our CD wheels on Autodesk Inventor. It looks really awesome. I also began designing the rest of our car in Inventor. In other words, I am doing the easy pieces while Kevin works on the hard piece.

Mouse Trap Car: Journal 3

Today Kevin and I sketched some rough drawings of our design. It looks really good so far. We decided that kevin would get eyehooks for the 12 foot stop and I would get yard sticks and records.

Mouse Trap Car: Journal 2

Today we discussed our design and decided on our materials. We began to design it in inventor. We are going to use a coat hanger, rulers and CD's and balloons. Not for power though just.. well i'll tell you later

Mouse Trap Car: Journal 1

In POE Kevin Sawdey and I mainly discussed what we were going to do. We decided that we would try to use the lightest material we could find. We decided to involve a lever along side the mouse trap to increase the power. We are also going to mill out CD's for the wheels.