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For the Poudre Build Team the final scores at Nationals were:

Gliders - 1st place + $1500 scholarship to school of choice
Gravity Vehicle - 2nd place
Robot Arm - 3rd place. We would have been second if not for a last minute rule clarification that was misinterpreted
Maglev - 6th place
Boomilever - 9th place
Remote Sensing (One build team member and one non-build team partner) - 1st place + $1000 scholarship to school of choice

With only three members, we were the second best build team at Nationals

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Poudre's maglev weighed 2400 grams and traveled the distance of 64 cm in 0.5 seconds. Unfortunately, we greatly overestimated our capabilities and our predicted time was off by 0.12 seconds. My partner and i felt very confident on the test, so we were surprised to learn that we only score 23/50.

Does anyone know the first two American inventors that theorized maglevs?
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plaidsuitguy1 wrote:Does anyone know the first two American inventors that theorized maglevs?
From what I know, I believe it was James Powell and Gordon Danby from Brookhaven National Laboratory. I'm not quite sure if they were indeed the first, but I know they were at least one of the first.
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hmcginny wrote:The winning car was 7.1 kg at .85 seconds for a ~8350 at 64 cm (or at least that's the car score of the winning team). I'm not sure how good solon was, but I believe their score was slightly worse, or maybe we just beat them on the test. It would be interesting if they released the full score sheet in the test packet like they did last year.
7.1kg?? That's insane! I'm not nearly as good at this event as most people on this thread, but I can't even imagine the magnets on a track supporting that kind of weight, let alone having it travel the distance in under a second... How on Earth does one accomplish this?
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GeoChamp96 wrote:
hmcginny wrote:The winning car was 7.1 kg at .85 seconds for a ~8350 at 64 cm (or at least that's the car score of the winning team). I'm not sure how good solon was, but I believe their score was slightly worse, or maybe we just beat them on the test. It would be interesting if they released the full score sheet in the test packet like they did last year.
7.1kg?? That's insane! I'm not nearly as good at this event as most people on this thread, but I can't even imagine the magnets on a track supporting that kind of weight, let alone having it travel the distance in under a second... How on Earth does one accomplish this?
haha, :). Look at the highlight video at 1:46. We'll probably post another video of the car and track later this week.
http://www.wright.edu/cats/technical/eventstream/
click highlights then
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Look for the hockey mask at 1:46 :)
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GeoChamp96 wrote:
hmcginny wrote:The winning car was 7.1 kg at .85 seconds for a ~8350 at 64 cm (or at least that's the car score of the winning team). I'm not sure how good solon was, but I believe their score was slightly worse, or maybe we just beat them on the test. It would be interesting if they released the full score sheet in the test packet like they did last year.
7.1kg?? That's insane! I'm not nearly as good at this event as most people on this thread, but I can't even imagine the magnets on a track supporting that kind of weight, let alone having it travel the distance in under a second... How on Earth does one accomplish this?
Rare earth magnets on the track.

Guess what the rules are going to forbid next year......;)

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I can't even imagine how you got the 7kg into the space. Our vehicle was made of solid lead, and it was only about 2.5kg. Though, our mass was limited by the fact that it wouldn't be levitating above the track if it got any heavier.
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plaid suit guy2 wrote:I can't even imagine how you got the 7kg into the space. Our vehicle was made of solid lead, and it was only about 2.5kg. Though, our mass was limited by the fact that it wouldn't be levitating above the track if it got any heavier.
Yeah, we made our own 1 inch block of lead on our car, you can kind of see it in the video. Before states we had a 2.5kg car too, and we we're only getting 3000-5500 or so with that one.
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chalker wrote:
Rare earth magnets on the track.

Guess what the rules are going to forbid next year......;)
That would be a shame. Spending money on something like that might seem like a good idea if it was a two year investment but to only get one year out of it seem to remind me of Sumobots. There are many ways to eliminate the bonus that some teams have gotten out of such a track without making rare-earth magnet tracks not allowed. Some of these ideas have already been mentioned in this thread and coming from a school with a neodymium track that we thought we might be able to use for two years it is not only rough to know that we might not be able to but on top of that might need to spend money on track that does not use rare-earth magnets.
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The rules are still be written, so nothing is final yet, but that's pretty certain. Most of the changes will be coming from an attempt to increase safety (refer to the hockey apparel used by Harriton above.) We recognize a serious safety hazard from such heavy vehicles moving so quickly (and specifically how much energy is going through the exposed propellers.) While I don't want to divulge too much on early drafts, I would expect significant adjustments, all with the intention of reducing the risk encountered by the students, coaches and supervisors.
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