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Last weekend, the FSAE Electric Racecar team presented the racecar at the UROP Symposium. The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program has been a major supporter of the FSAE Electric team for years. We appreciate their support, so the FSAE Electric Racecar team was happy to bring the racecar to the UROP Symposium and answer questions. The UROP Symposium is a chance …
Last week, we were able to test the car. A running car is a major step for the FSAE Electric Racecar team. Comparing schedules, we are significantly ahead of last year’s racecar. At the rate that the car is improving, the FSAE Electric Racecar is in a good position to meet our goal of placing in the top 5 at …
The mission demonstration is a bit over a month away and the mission paperwork is due. The fact sheet and Technical Report thus needs either accurate to competition specs or closely accurate extrapolation of the UAV’s systems, weight, and other specs. It is vital to the success of the project as it is worth 20% of the total score of …
Our new lithium-ion batteries have finally arrived. Up until this point, we have been using heavy and relatively inefficient LiFePO4 cells to store energy for the car. With the new lithium-ion batteries, we can reduce the weight of our battery box by almost 100 lbs while maintaining similar performance to the LiFePO4 cells. This weight reduction is from a number …
This week was largely a continuation on the work being done in the previous week. The most significant to emerge was the mounting of avionics components for the flight test on Sunday. This comes with some difficulty as the plane was damaged in an accident earlier this week. It sustained damage in the tail in the form of a hairline …
We’re halfway into the spring quarter! I hope everyone is making good progress in their projects, as we have in our FWMAV team. Here are our accomplishments for week 5: The mechanical team has redesigned one of our mechanisms with a new gear system and new linkages. The CAD models are done, and we have 3D-printed the new gears to …
Over the last three weeks, the FSAE Electric Racecar team has been helping run the UCI Energy Invitational. The Energy Invitational is a competition that challenges local high schools to develop a car that only uses a dollar worth of energy over an hour-long race. The car that travels the furthest without exceeding the time or energy limits is crowned …
For the last few weeks, the FSAE Electric Racecar team has been working towards a fully “tech ready” car. At competition, all cars are inspected to ensure they are rules compliant and safe to drive. A “tech ready” car is one that is able to pass both electrical and mechanical inspection at competition. This is a significant challenge because there …
The team faces a major deadline along with a few smaller, and in some cases self-imposed, due dates. The major deadline is the technical report, which is to be turned in no later than the fourth of May, along with the much smaller fact sheet (which asks for some simple data about the competition plane), and will be worth 20% …
With the start of Spring Quarter, the FSAE Electric Racecar team has recruited a number of new members. These new members are from a variety of majors, ranging from electrical engineering to business. We hope to train these new members over this quarter so that they can help us with this year’s car, but more importantly, these new members will …
