A Page Describing the Statistics of the Hot Glue Mobile
John Ruzic and Bikramjit (Bik) Singh model the Hot Glue Mobile
One of the wonders of modern Engineering (it's a wonder it moved)
From top to bottom: The Nite Rider (Surinder Bajwa) and the Hot Glue Mobile (Ruzic - Sing)
The Hot Glue Mobile was a Mouse Trap Vehicle designed to run in the 2002 mouse trap contest (see the Mousetrap Web Page for a description of the contest and it's rules)
The Designers of this vehicle were Bik Singh and John Ruzic, the Builders included the above and Jack Ruzic. Phil Murillo was the Parts Lender.
During the race there were 6 heats. Our best time was a miraculous 3.15 seconds over a 2.5 meter course (miraculous because it was the ONLY race in which the car crossed the finish line)
We placed (you guessed it) Dead Last in the competion.
The Hot Glue Mobile more than fit within the cost budget of $20.00
Items of Cost worth mentioning are:
- Rear Axel Bearings ($5.99)
- Front Axel Bearings (7.99)
- Mousetrap ($0.49)
- Wooden Rear Axel ($0.03)
- Front Tires ($2.50)
- Metal Supports/Front Axel ($0.50)
was scrap wood and thus was of no cost to the team.
Though there are far to many possible improvements to list on a single web page without requiring a T1 line to download the page, we did decide to list a few of them here.
Some possible improvements are:
- Better Traction for Rear Tires (rubber bands or balloons)
- Don't Gum Up the Bearings
- A better method of securing the string to the axel
It is in our humble oppinion that the contest rules for this year were "excelent"
Basically, there is no improving on them when it comes to the contest that we ran.
However, we believe that the whole "drag race" thing has now been overdone. In order to "spice up the contest" you should do a complete revison of the entire contest. We heard many good suggestions in class. Among the best were:
- Create a mousetrap vehicle that is the SLOWEST to complete a 2.5m course
- Create a mousetrap vehicle that completes a 1m course fast, then stops within the next meter
- Create a mousetrap powered boat to race a .5m water course
- Create a mousetrap "Monster Truck" to drive over an obstacle
- Create a mousetrap vehicle that can pull X kg over a set distance (tractor pull)
