The Solar Plane project was conceived over the summer by the project leads. Our main goal is to design an aircraft powered purely by the sun to maintain continuous flight. Our main design challenge will be to maintain steady level flight through the night. Beginning week 0 and week 1 we were on the search for advisors and defining the …
An EXO-llent start for EXOSUIT project
The Exosuit project is off to an uplifting start as parts for the initial prototype are on their way for delivery. Here’s a brief timeline of what has been accomplished behind the scenes so far: The Exosuit project concept became finalized during the summer at a brainstorming session among project leads. Weeks 0, 1, and 2 were busy as UROP …
Circular UAV Project : Beginning
The Circular UAV project aims to design, build, and fly an unmanned aerial vehicle with circular wing configuration. In the beginning of the designing process, we need to roughly calculate the weight of the vehicle, collect information about parts, and decide which to use. So far, we got together and 1) decided to use one of the airfoil types between …
It’s Alive!
After some late nights, we finally got Savage up and running again just in time for a track day. Last weekend, Anteater racing went out to lot 16H where we set up a skid pad and an acceleration strip to run some last minute tests before the design for the next generation of Savage starts. All is well until the …
MAE 189 Fuel Cell Battery I Getting Started
The concept of our project is using Fuel Cell-electrolyzer and water tank to produce battery. For recent plan, there are several task we need to do: 1) Collecting the information about electrolyzer, buy first and test its performance/efficiency; 2) Looking into places where can machine stainless steel; 3) Investigating a temperature controller, where place the electrolyzer in to test its …
Fuel Cell Battery I
Our project is fuel cell battery. The blog will report the process of our project, some fascinating details and the achievement of the project.
UCI’s Baja SAE 2016 Vehicle Design is Well Under Way
The 2016 Baja SAE competition may be eight months away, but this year’s team is already hard at work designing Raider, their 2016 vehicle. After participating in the 2015 competition last year with XV, Anteater Racing’s first Baja car in ten years, the team has gotten invaluable feedback that is being utilized to drastically improve the design of this year’s …
Anteater Racing Races over to Aldrich Park for UCI’s Festival of Discovery
To help celebrate UC Irvine’s 50th anniversary, improve our public outreach, and search for sponsor donations to help fund AR-10 Electra (Anteater Racing’s Electric Formula SAE car) we brought out Epsilon, originally an internal combustion FSAE car which was converted to electric a few years ago after a successful competition season. Epsilon was converted as a working prototype for a …
UCI’s Savage is registered for 2016 FSAE Lincoln
UCI’s internal combustion racecar Savage is registered for the 2016 FSAE Lincoln intercollegiate racecar design competition. This list of competing teams can be seen at the link: http://students.sae.org/cds/formulaseries/west/teams/ UCI has four racecar teams scheduled for competitions 2016.
UCI’s Electra is registered for the 2016 FSAE Electric competition
UCI’s Electra – our electric racecar design team is registered for the 2016 FSAE Electric collegiate competition in Lincoln, NE joining 20 teams from across the US as well as teams from Brazil, Canada, Mexico, South Korea and Pakistan. There are another 15 teams on the wait list. Select this link to see the list of competing teams: http://students.sae.org/cds/formulaseries/electric/teams/