develop and plan:
Our first idea for this project was to create a car powered by a mousetrap, with the basic mechanism of the mousetrap releasing and pulling a string, quickly spinning the axle, and moving the car forward. We found that mousetraps were difficult to come by, so we pivoted into another idea, inspired by a video on youtube of a person who made a car powered by a rubber band. Our plan was to make a slightly modified car, using a different axle mechanism for the rubber band to pull. Because the original design used bottle cap wheels, we were worried that the car would not grip well, so we planned to use large rubber wheels for the back wheels instead.