Team+Jar

= ﻿ Abe, Darius, and Allena. WE ARE, TEAM JAR! =

Are car is called the B.U.G. or bug for short. B.U.G. stands for Big Ugly Goat. Because even if are car isn't pretty, it can still kick BOOOTAY!!!!

This is our car as of April 12th. It isn't nearly finished, but we have confidence that when it is, it will be fantastic!!

We originally had a different body, but it wasn't very aerodynamic, so we switched the body, and that led to tons of new ideas. Unfortunately we didn't take a picture of our original design. I will show you the finished car asap.

We have painted the body red, and we added some decoration. The front wheels we had on originally as pictured above, slowed the car because only the back wheels were moving from the motor, and the front wheels were just pushed by the back wheels. It was not very fast becasue the front wheels caused a lot of friction with the ground. We deccided to change the wheels. We made the wheels out of bottle caps. it works a lot better, and the were from coke bottles and since they were red, they matched the car. They are much faster but they cause the car to curve slightly, and we are trying to figure out a way to stop this. We have decided to replace the front wheels because otherwise it will turn. We are trying to figure out what the best choice of wheel is. When we took a time trial across the quaker dome (94 feet) was 14 seconds. When we tried to do this again with our second generation of wheels, at 22 seconds it curved into the wall. We will take a new trial once we get new wheels.

Solar charging station We have now begun to start working on another big part of our project. The solar charging station. The solar cahrging station is the way we charge our battery. This makes our motor turn our wheels, to make our car go forward. It took about three class periods ( a total work time of two hours and fifteen minutes) to finish. It resembles a bowl in its shape. The panel itself will sit in the perfectly sized bottom most part of the bowl. The tinfoil which completley covers the surface area reflects the sun down onto the solar panel getting our batterys fully charged much faster. We have invluded with the bowl several triangular pieces of wood so that we can angle the bowl if necessary to be in the most contact possible with the suns rays.