Solar Power car
For this project our team was tasked with designing a car out of VEX parts that could run on solar power. Our design was fairly simple which was needed to fit the very limited time constraints of only a couple days. The goal was either to design a car that would move the fastest or for the longest, my group choose to design for speed.
This project went pretty well for us. The only down side was that when we tested the final design we had incorporated to high of a gear ratio and the sunlight wasn't able to provide enough energy for it to get moving. We learned from another group that had incorporated a low gear ratio that the low gear ratio provided a much more consistent platform. Looking back we probably would have tried a more neutral gear ratio after overestimating the power of the sun.