This project is headed by Daryl Martin and Curtis Jennings who are both term 2 engineering students. The rubber band gun project is for a course called Design II. Design II can be briefly summerazied by saying we draw 3d objects on paper. This summerization is pretty vague but when you look at the rest of this page you will be able to tell how far we have come from drawing stickmen. This project makes us call upon all the knowledge we have learned in drawing over the past two terms in engineering to complete this project. To help you understand what we set out to accomplish you can read the problem we were given below.
A Small toy manufacturer has noticed the fun that a group of children had with
a box of elastics which they found outside by a playground. This sparked her
imagination adn she woundered if it would be possible to amke a toy based on
this observation. She is interested in getting some preliminary product development
done by one of the local engineering consulting firms. Her specification is
as follows:
The toy/device must, generally, resemble a pistol (i.e. used in one hand).
The device should use #18 elastic bands as ammunition.
The device should be capable of fireing 6 elastics without reloading (i.e. a sixshooter).
General principles of personal, public and environmental safety shoudl be adhered to.
Good features would include ease of loading, firing distance, overall appearance and simplicity.
For a sample of what our gun looks like here is a picture of our gun fully assembled to look at.
As you can tell their are many different part's to this gun. Since they are all different colours you can tell just how many. If you want to see more of this gun you can see Cad section of this page to see the rest of our pictures
This problem took us nearly a full term to tackle due to the fact that it was our first project we ever did in design. In this web page you will find our final gun design in cadkey files and VRML files. We decided to use VRML due to the fact that it offers the vewier a chance to see our object in 3d even if they don't own a cad package. Enough talk and let's get on to the gun!!!!!!
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