I tried my best to finish my new car in the little time that i had but i was unable to as i glued the wheels to close together so that the left front and back wheel were touching and creating friction making the car barley able to move. i tried my best to fix the problem but i did not have enough time. If i faced this problem again i would have stuck by my original car as i would have had a running car to race at the competition but i was running low on time so i decided i would try to fix it when i got back

Today in class we started to test our cars on the track, it was invigorating!
the wheels kept falling off! i tried to make the metal bar connecting both of the back wheels longer but i kept falling apart! i don't know why i had done everything for it to work. so i stared a new one which was a bad idea at the time as i completely forgot that i was going away the week after.

In todays lesson i was deciding on wether to have my batteries sitting on top of my motor or in front having the motor and batteries on separate surface areas. I finally decided on having both the pieces on separate surfaces which i later learnt was a bad mistake because i could have mad my car smaller and faster by putting the batteries on top of my motor. i then put my switch on the bottom of my car as there wasn't enough space on the top then i soldered my wires together and at first i wired them the wrong way so my car was going backwards but Mr Ward just told me to switch the wires around. i thought that it would be an easy job making the car but i was wrong it was very hard getting the right measurements, angles and shape for my car to run and work properly.

today in design futures i started the practical part of my motor car. It was very hard to cut the bottom of my car as the plastic was a weird cut and it was hard to get straight lines and edges for the base of the car. I fixed the problem by sanding down the sides so that they were all straight and even, after that i took the plastic part off my wheels for less friction. i made the parts for my wheels and stuck them on. one of the main problems i had with my wheels was i never got the right length for my metal bar which you then attach the wheels to. The wheels were never on far enough and my whole car fell apart every time i raced it.

Today in df we got given the criteria for what we need to complete in this upcoming term, we have to create a motorised car in which we have to design it so it will travel at the fastest speed possible so that we can win the race at the end of the term. To make your car go the fastest speed possible you have to consider the aerodynamics, i am going to put a plastic sheet over to make the wind go straight over the car. i have also decided to make my car base out of a light material and take the tracks off the wheels. but i still need to experiment :)