Design Project Description
OBJECTIVES:
Conceive, Design, Implement, Operate a vehicle in modern team-based environment. The vehicle will be powered solely by the energy of one standard-sized mouse trap, (1 3/4" X 3 7/8"), and will enter a two-event competition:
1) traveling the longest linear distance, and 2) traveling a 5-meter linear distance in the shortest amount of time.
KEY MILESTONES:
• Team Contract and Biography
• Team Project Management Plan
• FRDPARRC Sheet
• Paper-copy of Team Presentation
• Contest
• Team Presentations
DEFITIONS AND REGULATIONS :
By definition, a vehicle is a device with wheels or runners used to carry something, (e.g., car, bus, bicycle or sled). Therefore, launching a ball, (e.g., marble) from the mousetrap will be ruled illegal.
1. The device must be powered by a single Victor brand mouse trap (1 3/4" X 3 7/8") .
2. The mousetrap can not be physically altered except for the following: 4 holes can be drilled only to mount the mousetrap to the frame and a mousetrap's spring can be removed only to adjust the length of the its lever arm.
3. The device cannot have any additional potential or kinetic energy at the start other than what can be stored in the mousetrap's spring itself. (This also means that you cannot push start your vehicle.)
4. The spring from the mousetrap cannot be altered or heat treated.
5. The spring cannot be wound more than its normal travel distance or 180 degrees.
6. Vehicles must be self-starting. Vehicles may not receive a push in the forward direction or side direction.
7. The vehicle must steer itself. Measurements of distance will not measure the total distance traveled only the displacement distance.
8. Distance will be measured from the front of the tape at the starting line to the point of the vehicle that was closest to the start line at the time of release.
9. In its fully extended form, the vehicle must fit inside a 8" x 14 " x 8" box.
10. The instructor has the final decision as to the appropriateness of any additional items that might be used in the construction of the racer.
RUNNING THE CONTEST:
1. The race track is the hallway floor outside the classroom.
2. Each team contestant will be given three attempts for the speed event and the distance event. The winner will be the team with the highest winning index, which has this formula: winning index = (best time of the class/your best time of the three attempts) + (your longest distance of the three attempts/longest distance of the class). Any ties will be decided by a single run off between the racers which tied.
Attachment:- Mouse Trap Car Project.rar