Team Meeting Friday March 9th

We started off the meeting playing with some Rokenbok tractors
We experimented with different rokenbok vehicles and their different capabilities however, though many of them are different in their components and elements they are all similar in the problems that define and restrict them. Que horrible! The first noticeable problem is that the Rokenboks are quite heavy. Also, the weight distribution wasn't exactly right and we weren't sure they would make it up the crater wall without tipping. Whether they had enough power to even get up the wall was also in question. Another difficulty was that they needed charger dock that needed to be close in proximity to communitcate with the device.



After we dismissed the Rokenbok idea we switched our area of focus onto the dropping part of the challenge. Using our knowledge of Physics, (Mo and Anisha's knowledge) we knew that all objects fall at the same acceleration of gravity (9.8 m/s/s)however, we know that in reality air friction affects lighter objects more. So in theory, if you dropped a bowling ball and a feather from a roof at the same time air friction would affect the feather more than the bowling ball which is why the ball hits the ground first. Because of this idea we knew that we could calculate the time our device would take to hit the landing zone as long as we knew the distance it would fall. Unfortunately we were thwarted by our lack of converting skillz.(yes,skillZ)We gave up.