Meeting 6: trials and updates

May 19,2013
Trial 1
The first trial ended up going backwards.

Trial 2
After some research, we came to the conclusion that it was the sling that was the main problem. We decided to clip the sling so that it would make a pouch for the water balloon. We also changed the location of the hooks for the sling that was most recommended which was the the closed hook be on the bottom of the the end of the wood and the open hook be on the top of the side of the wood. we also realized the sling could have been hitting the back piece of wood, so we used some cardboard to prevent that.

 As you can see, it could have went forward if it hadn't popped.

Trial 3
 At one point I figured that it might be better to have a sturdy piece of wood for the ramp instead of the flimsy card board. On one of our unrecorded runs, it did managed to go 25 ft, but then we had bad luck when our original release snapped from the string, and we couldn't figure out where it had gone, and it had already started getting dark. After a half an hour of searching (Not kidding -_-") we decided to improvise using a flat headed screwdriver.  After fixing that problem we did a few more trials, with a few going up or backwards we finally got another that went 25 ft again, and decided to call it a day. (especially considering it was 9)
Note: we have no videos because by the time we finished it was already dark out.

Finishing touches
After about another hour I finished painting a design on the sides of it. Along with the Dragon and the Yin-Yang symbol of balance, I wrote Determinate on the side of it hoping it would give me luck, and just describing how I felt during the whole building process, even if it didn't go far at all.