April 18, 2012

Today we took our rover for a spin and measured distance and time just like in our last two posts, but this time we made it up to five steps! We also started to measure our acceleration too on the second step and fourth step. We had an awesome time!

March 28, 2012

Today we added two pictures of our logo onto each side of our box. Then we took our rover out for a spin! Our rover went pretty far! We finished the measurements of distance and speed for our fourth step; our rover did great!

March 27,2012

Today we finished covering the inside of our box in aluminum foil and silver duct tape. Then we glued our alpha-particle x-ray spetometer into the center of our rover. We also took the flags the kindergardeners made and we glued them onto a skewer and stuck them in the box. After we took our rover for a spin down the ramp. We measured the speed and time it took our rover to roll to its farthest position at two steps. We had a great time!

March 26,2012

Today we fixed some errors on out blog. We also made our water tester look realistic. We finally made a separate page just for pictures to add pictures of us working onto the blog.

March 21,2012

Today we hot glued both of our washers as cameras onto tennis ball caps which we hot glued onto the rover. We also wraped our shovel in silver duct tape and aluminum foil to make it look more realistic then we stuck it into the side of our rover. We finally hot glued a chip (Alph-Particle X-ray Spectrometer) into the center of the rover. It was a good day!

March 20, 2012

Today we worked hard! We finished all of our diagrams and posted them on the blog and we also posted our song on the blog. We also wraped our rover in aluminum foil and silver duct tape. We hade a great time!

Diagrams

Here are the diagrams for our rover. It includes the front, back, left side, right side, bottom, and two oblique views. All of them are on a 1cm to 2cm scale.

March 19, 2012

Today we visited the kindergardeners and were paired up with two of them. They helped us wrap aluminum foil around our rover and made us beautiful flags to put on our rover. They also gave us a fantastic name for our rover. Today we also finished up our rover designs.

March 18, 2012

Today we managed to find out a way to put wheels on our rover without the wheels getting stuck to the rover. The way we accomplished this was by screwing on wood to the inside and bottom of the rover and then sticking on the pair of wheels to the wood allowing to move with ease. We also finished part of our diagram today. Lastly, we made a theme song for our Venus Rover.

Building the Transportation Device

It took close to 4 hours to find parts and build this but i finished and it works well. I also drew the bottom view blueprint for the rover.

March 15, 2012

Today we started making our designs and scaling our materials. Today we thought of a slogan and posted our logo.

March 14, 2012

Today we listed the materials that we will use to represent the real scientific instruments of our rover.

Materials Needed

Box
Tinfoil
Skewers
2 medium sized washers
Large sized washers
Air pump needle
Camera Chip
Spring scale
Wooden wheels
Shovel
5 foot piece of oak wood

March 7, 2012

Today we collected our box. Then we drew a scale model of the top of our box using a ruler and graph paper.

March 6, 2012

Today we learned about Venus and wrote what the scientific instruments on our rover do.

About Venus

Venus is the second closest planet to the sun and is nicknamed after the roman goddess. Venus' period of rotation [retrograde] is 243 earth days and period of revolution is about 225 days. Venus has a mass of 4.87 times 10^24 kg and has a diameter of 12104 km. It is about .723 AU away from the sun. Venus' atmosphere at the surface is about 90 atmospheres. It has an extremely dense atmosphere and traps heat within it making it very hot. Venus' atmosphere also contains sulphuric acid.

March 5, 2011

Today are team has created a slogan for our rover and we said on our mission statement what the tools we were going to use.