Storm+the+Castle

=__//**Storm The Castle**//__= =Kaab= =Jason= =TJ= (we need to decide which two are going to the event to present) =__//**BREAKING NEWS**//__= TJ has finished building the 1st version of the trebuchet! HORRAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! Of course, we will need to use some of the wood Tony bought for the one we will use at the competition, but this means we should be able to test this at the designated meeting day.

So general design info: The counter-weight will be roughly an open-topped wooden box that weighs aprox. 0.5 kg (lowest counterweight amount) but we'll test that at 1 kg as counterwieght (we'll need many 0.5 kg weights I think...) since at the competitions they will just give us a 0.5 kg weight anyways. The design itself will be of a normal trebuchet (now pronounced trebucket lol) TJ is making the trebuchet now out of scrap wood he has at home (we will need much better than scrap wood for the competitions). I would post the trebuchet simulator param file, but i think u have to pay money to allow saving that way, the one we did at shool wouldn't load properly, (gave like .0013123513643 as one of the bar lengths...) So we'll have to do with what i made at home and made a little sheet with the stuff i used. L= the length things and M= the mass stuff. Also, we as a trigger, we will put to little metal loop things (like stuff you put hooks through) on the base of the trebuchet and another on the 'arm' of the trebuchet, sticking a nail between all 3 locks the trebuchet in firing position. (see lower left corner for the general triggering mechanism. Also see counterweight for box design-thing that we will put weights inside)