Curtice's cool machine

My Machine Mania Page!:)

By Curtice

Hey there! Welcome to my Machine Mania page. This is the Main Page, the page where you get revved up for the race of my web page. My Machine is going to be a flat machine (of course!!!). It is going to be composed of a few things. NOT! But forget about that.

A few things that interested me was during construction, everyone went at a different pace, some were faster and some were slower at making the vehicle. I was one of the slower ones because we "thought things through" a bit. My teacher, Mrs.Nelson said to me at the beginning of the session that the people who think things through are the one's who will mostly have better cars in the big race.

How my car looks:

My car has two small "rails" as I call them on each long side that face the front. My batteries are also on the front. There are a lot of wires from the batteries to the motors in the back, so there isn't any weight in one spot. At the back of the car, I have a small "top" to make it look cool. That's how my car looks.

Information on Machines

You know, there are many places that machines could be: A TV at home for example, or a computer that you work on. A machine is, in short terms, is a device that works with or is a device that does a force. There are simple machines and complicated machines. Some simple machines are like a small motor attached to a wheel. When the motor is powered up, the motor turns and so does the wheel. Complicated machines are like a Rube Goldberg device, that shows many simple machines being put together to do one simple thing, like turn the page of a book.

Machine link

Here is a cool machine link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine

Race results:

These are the race results:
Me: 2.69 flat course
Kenny: 3.10 uphill course

I learned a few things form this race, like you can't build too much on one piece. All in all, this has been a fun course.