Creaform, a company that specializes in high-quality 3D scanning, has been a tremendous help to our project. The UCI Autonomous Boat team was tasked with a daunting challenge of modeling our jet ski hull in Solidworks. Completing this on our own would have required hundreds of hours and the final result would not have looked good.   They were gracious …

Autonomous Boat Week 7 Update It’s week 7 of Spring Quarter and we’re almost finished with fabrication. We are preparing the boat for a launch by the end of June. We have everyone working on their own respective parts and the categories below best summarize the overall group’s effort. The photo shows a closeup of the unfinished wiring on the …

Autonomous Boat Week 6 Update It’s week 6 of Spring Quarter and we’re almost finished with fabrication. We are preparing the boat for a launch by the end of June. We have everyone working on their own respective parts and the categories below best summarize the overall group’s effort. The photo shows this week’s progress made by the mechanical design …

Autonomous Boat Week 4 Update It’s week 4 of Spring Quarter and we are preparing the boat for a launch by the end of June. We have everyone working on their own respective parts and the categories below best summarize the overall group’s effort. The photo shows this week’s progress made by the solidworks team to fully assembly the Mechanical …

Autonomous Boat Week 3 Update It’s week 3 of Spring Quarter and we are preparing the boat for a launch by the end of June. We have everyone working on their own respective parts and the categories below best summarize the overall group’s effort.   The photo shows Creaform scanning the hull of that boat that will help us create …

Autonomous Boat Week 8 Update It’s week 8 and the team is almost done with the completion of the powertrain systems. We have everyone working on their own respective parts and the categories below best summarize the overall group’s effort. The photo shows the progress made on properly sizing the chain to the sprockets that connect the engine to the …

Autonomous Boat Week 6 Update It’s week 6 and the team is continuing the construction of the powertrain systems. The goal is to have the craft finished by the end of this quarter so that it can complete its journey from California to Catalina. We have everyone working on their own respective parts and the categories below best summarize the …

Autonomous Boat Week 5 Update It’s week 5 and the team continuing the construction of the powertrain systems. The goal is to have the craft finished by the end of this quarter so that it can complete its journey from California to Catalina. We have everyone working on their own respective parts and the categories below best summarize the overall …

It’s week 4 and the team is in full swing of the construction of the boat. The goal is to have the craft finished by the end of this quarter so that it can complete its journey from California to Catalina by the second week of March. Because last quarter was all about research and design and this quarter is …

A new year has started and members of the UCI Transat Project are working hard on completing this project in time for launching it on it’s journey from California to Catalina over Spring Break. Over the Winter break, team lead Connor Kingman installed a filter on the fuel intake line to remove impurities before they enter the engine and potentially …