Week 10: End of Quarter Achievements and Future Goals

louieaj 2016-2016 UAV Forge, 2015-2016 UAV Forge, Project Learning, Project Achievements, 2016-2017, 2016-2017 UAV Forge

With final exams chasing our heels, UAV Forge wraps it up for the year. Here are the last tasks the teams have completed and their goals for next quarter. The Propulsion team has nearly completed a prototype structure of the tilt rotor set up. They have confirmed that the tandem software for the tilt rotor controller is working, but the …

Solar Space Heater Week 6 Progress

Justincardona 2015-2016 Solar Stove

This last week we came together and took the feedback given from our presentation to help reorganize our priorities for the project over the next couple weeks. Currently we have settled on material and figured out ideal and minimal restraints for energy needed, size of the heater, and size of the solar panel. We are now looking to purchase a …

Week 5: Prototype Iterations and General Project Developments

louieaj 2015-2016, 2015-2016 UAV Forge, 2016-2016 UAV Forge

UAV Forge has had some interesting developments so far! The Propulsion team has been performing tilt-rotor spiral mode analysis to find ways to control how the plane moves. In addition, they want to create a new gimbal and test bench to experimentally prove their research ideas. The Mechanical Design team is working on designing three parts of the plane. First, …

Thermal Energy Fabricates 3 Prototypes

henry_mak16 2015-2016 Thermal Energy

The Thermal Energy team is currently working countless hours to fabricate 3 body-powered flashlights. The design includes cutting PVC pipe, various metals & polymers, using special thermal paste and epoxy, as well as wiring an entire voltage step-up regulator. A band saw was used to cut the foot-long PVC pipe in half for the base of the flashlight. Aluminum, steel, …

Circular UAV – Year in Review

Moses 2015-2016, 2015-2016 Circular UAV

Finally, after all the hard work throughout the year, we successfully flew the Circular UAV during finals week! Special thanks to Professor Haithem Taha for advising our project, Colin Sledge for guiding us step by step through the whole process and piloting our UAV, and Terry Wang for providing advice, directions, and making our poster, presentations, and documentations look professional. …

Week 9 Aerial Wind Turbine Update

jundongh 2015-2016 Aerial Wind Turbine, 2015-2016

We were able to make the wing frame by laser cutting the airfoil spars from plywood. The hard part was matching the dimensions of the front spar to the I-beam we made, so we had to re-dimension the design to match. Once we did that we attached all the pieces together and the wing frame was finished.