Week 1

     Today Nolan and his dad brought in a polar shooter prototype we build and tested at home. It performed great with the stiffer game disks (compared to the one we have at home). However, it uses a bicycle wheel which is pretty bulky. They then continued construction on another polar mechanism using a smaller 8" wheel. They hooked that up to a CIM and tested it for a while. Results were pretty good with this new prototype but improved even more so when Mr. Herbert camped on a strip of rubber wheel treads to the curved guide (something important to note for further construction).