UglyBlog » HON http://designugly.com/blog A casual design blog for DesignUgly. Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:37:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Derby Update: Finals http://designugly.com/blog/2008/09/derby-update-finals/ http://designugly.com/blog/2008/09/derby-update-finals/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:23:17 +0000 Faraz Shah http://designugly.com/blog/?p=72 On Saturday the final round of the IBM Ultimate Derby took place.  In the double elimination event, the HON #15 car placed…dead last!  However, this is not as bad as it sounds.  When you look at the times, out of 4 racers in this class, the HON car was a total of .03 seconds from matching the second place, Plexus #6, finisher.  Aside from the one entry that utilzed a mechanism, the races were incredibly close.  There was a lot learned during this process, and I hope to be able to compete again next year.

IBM Derby Finals M3 Design setting up. Design Continuum setting up. The 2008 award winners. ]]> http://designugly.com/blog/2008/09/derby-update-finals/feed/ 1 Derby Update: Round 1 http://designugly.com/blog/2008/09/derby-update-round-1/ http://designugly.com/blog/2008/09/derby-update-round-1/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:18:39 +0000 Faraz Shah http://designugly.com/blog/?p=49 The number of cars this year was pretty low compared to last year’s event.  There were only 4 competitors for the fastest time, with only one being a mechanical assembly.  The HON car was only .03 seconds from the fastest non-mechanical entry, incredibly close!  The mechanical entry was a pretty amazing extending concept that had the fastest time by far this year.  The other entries were for the slowest car competition, two of which didn’t make it to the end of the track.

The action was pretty fast, and was a lot of fun for the first round.  The HON car got some pretty great reactions from the crowd and observers.  The car in the first heat that it competed against was one of last year’s winners, and was only .03 seconds faster.  Tomorrow I will try and tweak the weight situation in order to maximize its potential.  Luckily, the IBM team has been very accommodating to let me test and tune it before tomorrow night’s competition.

Heat 4 The HON car on deck. Cars competing for the slowest time. The first heat, including the HON car. Heat 2 Heat 3 ]]> http://designugly.com/blog/2008/09/derby-update-round-1/feed/ 0