The first design of our solar car is almost complete. After months of hard work, our alpha design of the solar car is beginning to come together. We currently have our spaceframe chassis done and CADed up in Solidworks. The chassis is assembled to the suspension components, which include brakes, steering, and the actual suspension system itself. We decided to …
The first design of our solar car is almost complete. After months of hard work, our alpha design of the solar car is beginning to come together. We currently have our spaceframe chassis done and CADed up in Solidworks. The chassis is assembled to the suspension components, which include brakes, steering, and the actual suspension system itself. We decided to …
For the past two weeks, Tim and Alex have been working tirelessly to finish up the tank. We can now fill the tank up with water, as shown in the pictured in this blog. This week, we plan to cut wood for the remaining parts of the tank and nail up the control box and the servo supports. Also, Alex …
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 …
New electrical components were received to continue working on the subsystems. We meet with both the industry sponsor and adviser once so far to receive feedback on the prototype. Subsystem 1 received a new motor with a higher torque capability, holding torque is 1.9Nm. It can make full rotation currently dispensing more than the desired food quantity, but it will …
So far, UAV Forge has been a little slow this week. On a side note, an important aspect of our project is the team-building. Every spring, UAV Forge makes team t-shirts for our members. It is a great opportunity to help the project feel united and to remember that we are working towards a common goal. The Propulsion team has …
The first ever Solar Car at UC Irvine has officially started as a Senior Design Project during the spring of 2017. After careful consideration and a numerous number of interviews, the team leads of the Solar Car project finally put together a full team of twenty undergraduate students. The team ranges from a wide variety of different types of undergraduate …
The image shows a 532 nm wave with our blue-green filter. It is from an image of the charcoal at different shutter speeds. We tried to make sure the charcoal temperature remained constant so we could assume constant temperature. According to our data, the data from the red and blue channels gets saturated around 0.003 shutter speed, and the data …
This week the team worked to optimize the accuracy of the test bed. The main modifications needed were from the mechanical side of the test bed to make sure that there is not any unwanted rotation on the testbed. Our goal for accuracy is within .1 degree and to do this it needs to be completely stable wihout any movement …
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 …
