Me and Others, June 18, 2007

Woo hoo today was the best day after everything that happend i did an awesome job in machine mainia and guess what if you are reading this then you better be rating this ten out of ten. or maybe 9 out of 9.
anyways have a great time looking through my things!:)

Justin's super Machine

Hi folks, this is my web page. I am going to make a car that can go really fast and on flat surfaces like a Ferrari. I like to make the car very dashy and zooming. I want my car to win in the race and I want the car to go really fast and not break or crash.
Here are my results:
I built my car for two and a half weeks
my car goes really fast
my link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine
I did flat course and Curtice timed me
my car crashed and I had to fix it.
Here are my results:
my time was 3:24 on the flat course
I learned that I don't have to worry when I wrecked my car, because I fixed it fast and was ready to race again.

Jun's machine

Click here to see another dragster
I made a car, a spiffy car, just made for land. A car meant to race for...  MACHINE MANIA!!!!
 Machine mania is a summer school program that enables me tomake new friends, have fun, and stretch
my mind to think in ways I haven't. As the days go along, we do experiments that challenged the mind.
I decided to make a car that would race on a straight track. It is supposed to have the design of a dragster
and go as fast as one considering its much, much, much smaller. For a flat race, I did not
really need stability but speed, which I was gonna get. I wanted to make a car that would cut through
the air so it would be like a dragster. I was going to use CD's for wheels  but they just did not work for me.
So I used normal wheels to actually make it work. It worked but the machine itself was slower then a snail.
I don't expect my machine to win but I hope it will at least make it over the finish line.
Here are the results below.



Results...

Porsche(flat):3'35
Kendrick(SUV):5'03
Jun(flat):3'84
Curtice(flat):2'69
Kenny(flat):3'10


Over these past few days, I learned that hot glue really has its limits.

Kristy's Marvelous Machine

This is my post for Machine Mania. So far we are going to do a race and we're designing a car only for the race we're doing. I'm doing the uphill, which will include a hill climb about 5 inches high, and I will need a lot of power. I'm doing this because there would be less people, so it might be easier to win, but also I think it will be cooler to have something that goes up and down, instead of just running a flat track. It would be so much fun. But the hard part is to make enough power to make the car run uphill. It would be easier to make a car run a flat distance, but it would be harder to win. It would be harder to make a car with enough power to lift itself up about 5 inches with just about 1 inch to start off. I'm planning to have 2 motors in it, but if one burns out at the slope up, it wouldn't work.
Flat winner: Curtice ,Uphill winner: Curtice ,SUV winner: Kendrick
I learned that if something works well just one time, it doesn't mean that it will work well forever. I learned this because someone's machine won the pre-test, but the machine didn't win in the final test.
http://www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm


Author Information
Fav book: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Fav food: Eel rice, noodles
Fav desert: Cake (especially home-made pound cake!) and ice-cream
Fav subject: Science (all kinds), history, and maybe art

Electronics is the study of the flow of charge through various materials and devices such as, semiconductors, resistors, inductors, capacitors, nano-structures, and vacuum tubes. All applications of electronics involve the transmission of either information or power. Although considered to be a theoretical branch of physics, the design and construction of electronic circuits to solve practical problems is an essential technique in the fields of electronics engineering and computer engineering.

The study of new semiconductor devices and surrounding technology is sometimes considered a branch of physics. This article focuses on engineering aspects of electronics. Other important topics include electronic waste and occupational health impacts of semiconductor manufacturing.

This was found at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronics

Kenny's Magnificent Machine

My Post




This is my post for Machine Mania. I decided I would build a flat car. I wanted to make a car that could shoot off without any resistance. If my car has a lot of resistance, then I think it would go slower than usual. But without it, then there is a BIG chance of me winning. I also wanted to build a flat car so then it could be lighter then usual. But since the motor is heavy, it will then be lighter then the other cars. If it is lighter, then it would travel easier up a hill. But I am still going to do the SUV raceway. I am going to input two motors and connect them to two batteries.
After that, I am going to place it on the bottom of the base and hot glue them to the base. Eventually, I am going to connect the wheels to the motors and add some designs to like a rear spoiler and a few resistors. Then that would be the end of my machine.

Here's a cool machine link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machines

Race Results:

There are a few race results maybe you would like to see them:
Me: 3.10 (uphill course)
Curtice: 2.69 (flat course)

Things that I learned in the race

I learned not to worry during the race or then something will go wrong. If you don't worry, then everything will go smooth

Trevor's Machine

Hi I'm Trevor. I am making a car that will go on a flat course. It is big, but fast. This car was meant to win, win and win. It was designed to be a race car, but sadly I could not use any other parts except for the ones inside a bag. It has 2 motors, 2 batteries with 7 wires, 4 wheels and a knife switch. I predict that my car will not move.
Here is a link to a cool website

Results

Trevor: (flat) 3'23