Saturday, May 22, 2010

F1 Sabbatical

My Sabbitacal for this term is F1 in school workshop and $100 need to be paid. The result of this course is to create a D type F1 car using a computer-aided software. A common type of car would be given to us for us to design and in the end race it as shaping out every single car would take very long and we only have five days inclusive of the days taken to design the car. There is a world wide competition on this F1 car racing to and the preliminary round for this competition would be held in Hwa Chong. I feel that Formula 1 is rather cool but I do not really enjoy watching the race as it is very boring. We used Solidworks to design the F1 car. Designing the car is quite easy. We only have to create the curve to have the best aerodynamic shape to reduce drag.
The webpage showcases all our design.

The sanding of the car was the most tedious part of the whole process as we need to sand it until it is very smooth in order go fast.I am not very good in my art so my car was not very nice after I painted it.After the wheels are fixed it is ready to race. The track is just a 20m straight track.I am going to be racing with Yiheng.Oh!I almost forgot. We also had to vote for the best painted car. I had no votes at all...Sad...Anyway I know that my art is not good so I did not expect to have any votes. The person who won is from sec 2. I also voted for him. His car was really very nice.I did not have a chance to take a picture of it.

My reaction time was very slow and I lost to Yiheng in the end.Trophies will be given out for the winners.This workshop is quite enriching fulfilling.