Thursday, February 28, 2013

RIP Lasercutter (for now)

It seems as if the windlasses were just too much for the laser cutter to handle and this past weekend, it breathed its final breaths (made its last cuts?)... for a little while now. Luckily enough, our next project did require lasers or cuts of any sort (I see you Professor Banzaert! ) However, before I move onto the new stuff, here are the measurements of the parts of my windlass.



382.72 cm^2 is pretty well below the 500cm^2 restriction I think... do we get extra points for awesome conservation of material? (we only printed once!!!)

On to the next project....

lego racers!!!

Yes! 
Prior to really assembling our lego car, we spent a lot of time messing around with the gears to get a good feel for how they work and our options. We constructed many iterations of our lego car, changing not much besides the gear trains...


1:47... a litttttttttle slow
(10seconds/yard, no weight)

1:27... quite a bit faster
(6 seconds/yard, no weight)

heart : heart...

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