Problems

21/03/2018

Of course, as most things in life, nothing goes exactly as planned. Today, we tested our machine, and we have realized that the automatism technology for the launching of the birdies does not work. The problem is that when we put the metal stick between the handles with the forks attached to it, the stick will not remove itself when the machine advances. The reason for this is because the upward tension of elastics forcing on the forks is much bigger then the force of friction excreted between the wheel and the stick when advancing. This means that, when we launch the vehicle, the front left wheel and the stick dont move, leading to the birdies not being launched. We are currently looking for a solution for this but fear that we might have to complete the competition tomorrow with only a semi-automatic machine, which will make us lose quite a few points. Hopefully, we will be capable of collecting enough points to permit us to make up for this handicap.