2-15

Today we were able to find a garage door motor that had the sensors we needed. After disassembling about half of the motor case, we wanted to test it and see if the motor and electronics worked. But beforehand we removed the wires that power the light and forgot to check that they weren't touching anything and one ended up shorting out on the metal base and fried the circuit board. Luckly we had a spare circuit board that would work with the motor. After we tested everything and made sure it all worked, we began to figure out how we were going to turn the pipe to move our spikes.

feb 7-14

We have found a garage door opener and have cut the hole for the garage door opener to stick in. We will gain access to the opener this weekend. In the mean time we have begun to make out camshaft mechanism that will make the screws stick up into the tire. It is a piece of pvc pipe whith taller pieces screwed onto it to push the screws up as it rotates.

week of jan 31-feb 6

This week we had only one day of school due to snow. We continued our design which is together including supports throughout the entire speedbump that has been build. The garage door opener that we went to look at on monday, was not the correct type with the sensors. We are continuing our search for a garage door opener.

1/28

Today we worked on finding a garage door motor and remote; we are looking on Craigslist, Ebay, and Amazon to find the parts we need. The garage door opener we are buying will be stripped down and used to turn the interior pipe with the spikes connected to it.

1/25- This should be below

My birthday (George), we went to shanes and cut out the final pieces to the frame and got our spike strip looking good. Our design is working properly at this point, and we are working toward putting the rod mechanism, that will push the screws up, into the frame.

1/26

Today we worked extremely hard on catching up with our technological interfaces. We spent the entire class working on our Google Website and making it more informative. We then went onto this blog and posted all of our updates that we were behind on.

1/24

Durring class today, we went to Shane's house and began putting everything together that we had worked on so far. The outter shell wood pieces turned out to be a little warped so we connected them together using liquid nails and 2" screws. Using the liquid nails along with the screws will make sure that the wood stays together and it even ended up helping to straighten out the warped sections. Now that our project is beginning to look more like a spike strip, we got a few new ideas for how our spikes will be deployed. It will be powered by a garage door opener motor and the spikes will move up and down by a rod that will be similar to a camshaft in an engine.