THE END

The semester is ending and therefore, so is the team's attempt at the Jolt Car. As the project wraps up, the car is shall we say, less than complete. We got a little too motivated for the time that we had set aside! BUT, the end product moves and that's the most important part of a car. The team was attempting to attach two stepper motors and an arduino board to the two axles beneath the car. Then the idea was to put some IR sensors on and write a little code that would have made the car remote controllable. The end result we had though was simply just the frame of the car with the axles and wheels attached. Building the gearbox become our first main challenge as we lacked the tools to create one around the motors. Had we more time, we could have acquired them to make a finished product. After that would have come writing the code and our challenge as a team at that point would have been writing it in such a way that the code could have controlled the motors separately but simultaneously. The really ambitious aspect of the Jolt Car was the cannon though! The team attempted several starts on the cannon with drilling holes in multiple places on PVC piping. We tried a rubber band/sling shot type and we tried a pin release/spring method to make it fire-able. It came down to time however, and the team had to focus on the frame to get the car, at the very least, moving.

We are all proud of our teammates and we had a lot of fun creating the Jolt Car. Maybe in the future this prototype will receive some extra attention and get some add-ons. For now, the team is going home for the holidays!