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.

1/20

This week in class, George and Shane went back to Home Depot and purchased wood, screws, and pvc pipe. We also began cutting the wood that will be the outter shell of the spike strip. The cuts turned out to be more difficult to make then we originally thought because of the awkwardness of the angles and how we had to use the table saw to get the cut the way we needed. Once we figured out how to cut the first one, with assistance from Mr. H., the other was alot easier to do.

1/18

We went to Home Depot and purchased a few pieces of wood and some metal strips. We began by cutting one of the pieces of wood in class. However we ran out of the proper type of wood that we needed for the project, so we needed to return to Home Depot.

1/12

We went exploring some different junk yards for metal parts that we're going to use on our spike strip. We weren't really able to find anything that would be much help to us. Because of this, we decided to use wood as the frame instead of sheet metal, plus wood is a much easier building material to work with.