Success

The Success of the Prototype

     Our prototype rail gun might look legit, and it might look cool, but unfortunately it doesn't do much besides flash and pop. Our main issues stem from not shaping parts with computers, since it apparently needs incredibly precise measurements to function consistently. We got it to work a few times, but it was too unreliable. We will undoubtedly continue working on it in attempt to get it to function.

     Unfortunately we weren't able to connect Arduino to our system. We were pressed on time since we were trying so hard to get the rail gun itself to do what it was supposed to do that we didn't set aside enough time to integrate it, and when we did finally give up on the gun and sat down to think about Arduino, we realized we couldn't even connect it to our system to function as a switch because at the 25 volts it ran on it would get fried. We do however have ideas to integrate it for future prototypes. 

     Regardless of the limited success of the functioning of our prototype, we wouldn't say we failed. Since this technology is modern technology, it's still highly experimental. We learned why it has only just recently become remotely feasible, and we learned a great deal on the physics behind them. We know now what we must do in the future to succeed, and we have ideas to make it even better than we had initially planned.