Today, we made one wall of nails first to test out its effectiveness. We don't want to make all of them only to find out that they don't work, so better safe than sorry.
The test came out quite well. The nails slow down the ping pong balls quite a bit so we can make more of these.
In addition to the wall I also made some spacers for the rails. These are to keep the width of the rails the same distance the whole way through. This way we won't need to worry about keeping the fiddly bits in position with the help of the spacers.
Meanwhile, we still haven't got the engines working. It's looking pretty bleak. What I find with most of our projects is that we really rely on some piece of technology to work in order to complete a project. We focus so much on how to get things working that it feels like the meaning behind the work is lost to desperation in trying to get it to work.
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