In all honesty, this will not be a very long post, as I did not get too into this project.  Perhaps the project just did not take to me because of my “non-dexterousness”, as a friend once described my tendency towards clumsiness.

A box full of small things in close proximity to my presence invariably seem to mystically activate Murphy’s Law, which posits that if something can go wrong, it will go wrong.  Having set the box up on the table and opened it, I accidentally knocked the whole box, with its diminutive contents, off the table and onto the floor.  This happened twice through my agency and once thanks to one of our lab partners.

The first roadblock, if you will, that we ran into in setting up the car was locating the proper pieces needed to build the car.  After many trial-and-error-experimenting with pieces substituted for the prescribed parts, we finally put the ‘whip’ together and were able to make it do what it do.

In measuring the fractal error when we changed the power from 75 to 95, we came up with the result of 0.032.  Though it does no figure into the formula, the number of whell turns was 1.61389.  In getting the fractal error, we measured the distance the car travelled after setting the power to 95; that distance was .27 meters.  Knowing the distance that the computer program measured, which was .27871 meters, we were able to use the following formula to determine the fractal error:

The absolute value of (measurement with ruler minus program measurement) divided by ((rule measurement+program measurement) divided by 2).