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#BIGYEET day 11

#BIGYEET day 11

Today, we finished putting together the side frames of our catapult. We used strong ties to hold the wood together. The strong tied held the wood together extremely well, and it was more efficient than...

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#BIGYEET day 10

#BIGYEET day 10

Today, we finished drilling the holes into the frame for the axle. We then decided to cut the arm of our catapult since it was too heavy. After we finished cutting the arm, we used an orbital sander...

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#BIGYEET day 9

#BIGYEET day 9

Today, we drilled a hole through one of the frame pieces of the catapult. We messed up the hole, but we found a way to make the axle get in the right spot. We managed to insert part of the axle into...

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#BIGYEET day 8

#BIGYEET day 8

Today, we tested making holes for our axle, and we decided to make the hole that would be on the side of the frames 7/8 inches. The diameter of the axle is around 7/8 inches. The hole through the arm...

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#BIGYEET day 6

#BIGYEET day 6

Today, we finished cutting all of our wood with an electric saw, and we sanded all of the pieces so it would be easier to screw together. We sent in our finalized purchase order to the teacher, and he...

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#BIGYEET day 5

#BIGYEET day 5

Today, we measured all of our wood ACCURATELY, and we started to saw one of the pieces of wood. We used a handsaw to cut the wood, but it was tiring and hard. The teacher then told us that we could have...

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#BIGYEET day 4

#BIGYEET day 4

Today, we finalized our P.O. We took many things off of our P.O. because we found that many of our materials were already in the classroom. The only things we need to buy so far are strong ties, the pull...

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our Purchase Order

#BIGYEET day 1

Today our team made a Purchase Order to get our supplies for our catapult and we also made a diagram to scale. Our catapult is 5 feet in length  , 2 feet in Width , 4 feet in high .As we...

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