For the last month my team mates and I have be working on our last science project which is building the final rockets and launching them. Are rocket used a sugar rocket called Trident. The rocket was designed to launch ff with a quail egg and land with it safely. The process was long but worth the results.
First day of working on it we started with the body, which was a cardboard tube. but instead of grabbing the nearest on. We made them. how we did it was we cut long strips of butcher paper and glued them around plastic pipes. Carefully wrapping them around them to make it lighter and just as strong if not stronger then regular tubes. the first one that we made was not very good because it was not placed on right so it was wrinkled and fragile. sadly it fell apart and could not be used but we made a new one with help from the teacher.
The second day was the fins. I designed the shape and made the cutting template. So the fins were mostly on me. Cutting them went kinda bad since it was hard not to damage it a little sins we had to cut it with exacto knives. I thought I was doing great when it was cutting them, but when it came to get it out I had not fully cut throw on end so it broke of a little of the bottom. but it was OK since the all where kinda cut short.
The next day. My two teammates move on the styling it. That's when I started doing my own thing and worked on something else. I worked a little on blog posts and other small things. Then I went to building the compartment for the egg. The idea was to build a cage and to hold the egg and then attaching it to the sides of the rocket making it move with the rocket, but also resist it a little. Sadly I overestimated to space I was building it in and the size of a quail egg. the egg was bigger than I thought so I had to make my cage bigger and the tube the rocket was to small and I didn’t had a lot of room. it the end my mistake was when I was getting it in, I crises crossed two of the support wings and they would not let it stay properly. So my teammates and I ended up not having it in. Maybe if I ever did again I would do the same thing except put it in right. maybe I could have lived the launch.
First day of working on it we started with the body, which was a cardboard tube. but instead of grabbing the nearest on. We made them. how we did it was we cut long strips of butcher paper and glued them around plastic pipes. Carefully wrapping them around them to make it lighter and just as strong if not stronger then regular tubes. the first one that we made was not very good because it was not placed on right so it was wrinkled and fragile. sadly it fell apart and could not be used but we made a new one with help from the teacher.
The second day was the fins. I designed the shape and made the cutting template. So the fins were mostly on me. Cutting them went kinda bad since it was hard not to damage it a little sins we had to cut it with exacto knives. I thought I was doing great when it was cutting them, but when it came to get it out I had not fully cut throw on end so it broke of a little of the bottom. but it was OK since the all where kinda cut short.
The next day. My two teammates move on the styling it. That's when I started doing my own thing and worked on something else. I worked a little on blog posts and other small things. Then I went to building the compartment for the egg. The idea was to build a cage and to hold the egg and then attaching it to the sides of the rocket making it move with the rocket, but also resist it a little. Sadly I overestimated to space I was building it in and the size of a quail egg. the egg was bigger than I thought so I had to make my cage bigger and the tube the rocket was to small and I didn’t had a lot of room. it the end my mistake was when I was getting it in, I crises crossed two of the support wings and they would not let it stay properly. So my teammates and I ended up not having it in. Maybe if I ever did again I would do the same thing except put it in right. maybe I could have lived the launch.