Engineering

Pete7 · 25 January 2009, 09:51

So think you would make a good engineer? well here is a little test of your skills, all you need to do is design and build a truck to move some coconuts down a track

http://www.ingenuitywelcome.com/game/

J S · 25 January 2009, 10:27

Managed 78% What have others got?

James

simmons0 · 25 January 2009, 10:43

87%

Oh 95%

doggypaddle · 25 January 2009, 10:58

I got annoyed with it when it decided my twin turbo V8 6X6 with scammel style walking beam rear axle and leading link front suspension was infact one wheel drive and wouldnt leave the start for excess wheel spin 0%

I am off to do some proper engineering now......machining landrover hubs to fit suzuki 2.7V6 grand vitara discs and Willwood dynalite calipers, so i can stop the thing! Its on drums at the moment

daft thing about it is if you make simple a box and stick some wheels on with a few shocks you can get 80%

Avocet · 25 January 2009, 11:21

91% (with a three wheeled truck).

Nos4r2 · 25 January 2009, 12:09

93%. Could get higher if I could drive it better....

JSP · 25 January 2009, 12:18

87% cool site!

Richard Selman · 25 January 2009, 13:23

93% Covered in roof of their truck and added a funnel to keep the 'nuts in and put a wheel on each corner so it could wheely.

Not much work will get done in the engineering dept tomorrow I fear once this gets out.

Richard

Richard Selman · 25 January 2009, 13:51

96% work on the new A-frame has been suspended for the afternoon.

Hightower · 25 January 2009, 15:34

What a crap game

I built a couple of prototypes that worked well enough so spent about 30 mins of my life with the kids thinking and designing a monster mover (1.5 man and kid hrs build time) started the game and dropped the coconuts and half the coconuts dissapeared and the game took me to the shredder at the end. When I tried to edit my truck the design had gone

Perhaps it couldn't cope with 100%

I'm off to drive 6" nails though my toes now, much more rewarding

codprawn · 25 January 2009, 16:50

Brilliant - manage 88% with my first go

it ain't pretty but not bad - might do better if I slowed down a bit............

samt · 25 January 2009, 17:32

My 96% Beast:

doggypaddle · 25 January 2009, 19:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hightower

What a crap game

I built a couple of prototypes that worked well enough so spent about 30 mins of my life with the kids thinking and designing a monster mover (1.5 man and kid hrs build time) started the game and dropped the coconuts and half the coconuts dissapeared and the game took me to the shredder at the end. When I tried to edit my truck the design had gone

Perhaps it couldn't cope with 100%

I'm off to drive 6" nails though my toes now, much more rewarding

You think that games frustrating .....you should try finding what landrover used as a datum on wheel hubs!
The only conclusion i came to so far is that non of it is machined to within 10 thou of concentric

the only bit of the hubs that runs true is the wheel bearings, so the hub will have to be machined on taper roller bearings!

Hightower · 25 January 2009, 19:54

Well I've wasted yet more time on this game (I can't believe how addictive it is) and have perfected two types of vehicals that transfer all the Coconuts from one end to the other without spilling any.

One is a sphere with an inverted funnel that keeps all the contence from falling out and the other involves a ball that rolls down and blocks the hole the coconuts have entered.

I've completed this run as fast as possible and still not acheived more than 65%

Now I know how some of those contestance feel on Scrap Heap Challenge.

Nos4r2 · 25 January 2009, 21:57

97% now-with this:-

chewy · 29 January 2009, 21:38

I am the Coconut God!

Hightower · 29 January 2009, 23:31

Cheat!

How'd you do it in 14 seconds?

Nos4r2 · 30 January 2009, 00:05

Bigger the wheel, the faster it goes. I did it in 14 seconds a couple of times but didn't manage to keep all the coconuts in. The hardest bit is getting it into the shredder as the best designs barely fit in there.

Hightower · 30 January 2009, 17:27

Well I had the biggest posible wheels and couldn't do it in under 45 secs

Poly · 30 January 2009, 17:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hightower

Well I had the biggest posible wheels and couldn't do it in under 45 secs

Andy - I'm with you. It takes me 9 secs to leave the start grid! Even with one giant wheel (completely ignoring coconuts) it takes me over 1min. I wonder if it is linked to processor speed?