Chi Final Day a.k.a Competition Day

Its competition day for the Chi team.  This is the distance part of the competition and we are putting the sling back on after the first throw it flew off.  Other then that we pretty good in the distance competition we got over 25ft. but the accuarcy wasn’t too good.  Btw our trebuchet name was Jingles because it made jingling sound after every throw due to the counterweights.

We are putting sling back onThis is our Trebuchet

Final Competition for Sigma

After all our work and testing our trebuchet decided to do the opposite it was doing during our testing.  We were accurately shooting 15′ during testing, landing in the 1′ marker, and during competition we were lucky to get 10′.  Either way, congratulations to the winners of each competition.

Lambda Puting the Trebuchet to the Test

After all of our hard work we got our chance to use our trebuchet.  In the distance competition we threw the projectile over 23 feet, but sadly did not place in the top three.  On the otherhand in the accuracy competition we beasted and place first with our projectile landing just 13 inches from the desired target.

Lambda with a jaw dropping performance

Final competition for Kappa

IM ready to win

Kappa team is about to do their competition and they are ready to win. Kappa team won the distance competition over everyone, but we lost the accuracy competition. Our trebuchet shoot 32ft from the start. With the accuracy competition we couldn’t make our throwing are go slow.

Final Competition

Final competition

The finisher was put together successfully. It threw pretty good, but didnt do really well for the accuracy part. our distance part was okay but not the best. But overrall we are happy with our trebuchet and its performance.

Kappa team is testing their work

Matt is ready to shoot

The kappa team is testing their trebuchet to see how the accuracy and distance is. In distance they shoot atleast 25 ft and in accuracy around 13-14ft but the target is about 15ft away. we lightened the throwing arm so it will thorw farther than it did when we started.

Kappa’s team is done building

Matt and Adam is done building their trebuchet. They have worked on it from day one till now and have finally finished it. They are about to go test their trebuchet to see how it works.

Collecting Data

Launching the trebuchet

In this part of the project we are collecting data.  This follows behind the step of building the trebuchet.  This means we have to launch the object several times, to see how we need to adjust everything to win the competition.  while collecting the data we have noticed all the adjustments you have to do when you build something, to have it working at its peak.

Building the Trebuchet

We began assembling our trebuchet today. We have yet to run into any problems, although some are sure to come. Our time is ticking away as we scurry to finish our build.

Building the trebuchet

as we began working on our trebuchet we were realizing some of the difficulties of our design and the fact that we were running out of time. but we plan on taking it home an finishing the building up today so that we may test tommorow.