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New battery design is here! We have completed two boxes and we are working on the wiring for now. This updated design will provide more efficiency and easier access when connecting/disconnecting the batteries. We are looking forward to get all the wires hooked up and load them to our cart!
SPAM did its first speaking event this last Tuesday! The Covington Community was welcomed to UCI on a beautiful spring afternoon April 12th. The suns warmth beamed into the concrete as I lead them to the 3rd floor of the CAC building for our presentation and demonstration of 3D printing. After everyone was seated in the quiet presentation room Jesse …
For our cart, we decided we wanted to use the Taz 2.1 3D printer. It is quite an older version of commercial 3D printers, so you could imagine it needs some fixing up. One thing we notice after using it a few times was that the extruded plastic lines were not coming out smooth, but jagged. Upon looking at it …
Salutations! My name is Tina Chau and I’m a 4th year Studio Art major with minors in Digital Arts and Digital Filmmaking. I enjoy experimenting with various mediums, but the two I prioritize for my studies at UCI are traditional drawing and digital filmmaking. The dream for me is to work for big name animation studios and/or live action film …
We need your help! Our student research team here at UC Irvine is currently finishing up our design project and the final pieces of equipment we need are bikes. Before we go into detail about what kind of bikes we should tell you a little more about the project. What is that? (up there, right above here) Our S.P.A.M (Specialists …
We finally got to test out our grinder! Although we need some further refining to work on, the machine did its job with our improvised setup. The process however is rather simple. You throw in leftover plastic in the grinder and it grinds it to little pieces! It is capable of breaking down both small and big pieces of plastics …
Hello! My my name is Eunji Russ and I’m a senior in art major with digital art minor. I like to work with different mediums and explore new ways of creating art. I am part of the Honors Program for Art Major, where my knowledge and skill in art is challenged and critiqued constantly. Upon my search for contemporary art …
The new modular battery system has been completed, hooray! Eunji and I have been collaborating the last few weeks on creating an accessible, compact battery module that simplifies the current wiring from having to be screwed directly onto the positive and negative terminals to just plugs that are easier and safer to use! The exterior is now sleeker and confined …
Sunday Funday! The team got together this last weekend on Sunday to finish up and start new tests to determine the power required by the instruments being used on the cart as well as determine how much power can be produced using our current battery set up (from the bike powered lights for the Newport Boat Parade last December). We …
End of week 6! Time to check in: What have we done so far? Currently we have purchase orders out for the plastics grinder from FilaMaker and the spooler from Filabot. We are also currently redesigning the batteries that will hold the charge from the bikes and solar power. We are also currently checking the power draw from all of …
