Catapult Building 05/19/14

After building the trigger and the sling, we decided to do some trial runs with our catapult. We put 15 pounds on each side for our counterweight and used normal water balloons for our payload. We had some trouble with our first trigger, so we tried an alternative, as shown below. Once we were okay with the distance, we decorated the catapult with red and white chevron strips and put our team name and our group member names on the side. After doing a few trials, we tried adjusting the sling to see if it would make a difference in distance.