UAV Forge has been working hard before final exams catch you to our members. The Propulsion team has finalized the left side of the tilt rotor prototype. Using a remote controller, the rotor can make a 90 degree rotation. Now the team will work with the Avionics team to complete the other side and mirror the controls. The mechanical design …
The stepper motor requires 12 Volts and 2 Amps, therefore it is critical that the power supply can output the 12V and 2Amp to avoid the motor drive from overheating. The adequate resistor is not yet found to regulate the amperage, but it is being worked on. No changes to subsystem 3 or Subsystem 4 in term of design or …
This week, we finished the main assembly. First, we attached the brake clutch and pad to the lever. Then, we attached the lever to the wheelchair. In addition to finishing the final assembly, we are preparing for our design review on Friday in which we will showcase our progress on our prototype wheelchair. Our plan for next quarter is to …
The focus for this week was to put together the system in the temporary housing. The housing manufactured is a very simplified version of our CAD model, this model is solely to demonstrate the location of each component and the overall functionality. The straps on the front will hold the food container in place, it’s a representation of the plastic …
It’s remarkable how fast a quarter happens. Time flies when you’re having fun, or an engineer putting in back to back hours trying to balance your classes, work, internship, and any extra-curricular activities. For the Spacecraft Thermal System mechanical team, this quarter was a productive one. Our goal this quarter was to complete construction of our thermal testing chamber. The …
Hello readers, As the quarter draws to a close, parts and materials have been received and finalized with various testing going on. Our Avionics team has been testing several motors to better understand power required to run each motor with different propeller sizes and how much thrust each setup can produce. We used three different motors for tests with propellers …
This week, we changed the size of our rotating frame for improved stability for testing and for use by the Air force. Instead of using 1x1in bars, we used 2×2 which immensely helped the stability of the frame. we were also able to begin testing the rotation of the plate. we were able to test the rotation o f the …
During week 7, we posted a picture with 3 different symmetrical pieces that we received. The three pieces were welded together this week to form the lever arm. Welding is a fabrication process of joining the two rods together. This is achieved through fusion, where the two metals are melted. The next step is to send the welded piece for …
We wanted to find the error of our data using the root mean square (RMS), so we looked at 7 images for each data point in the graph shown, and separated the channels (RGB channels) and calculated the RMS using MatLab function. We eventually analyzed ~200 images, and found only a small error. We have been preparing another test set-up …
We have talked with Dolan and finished all the paperworks about 3D-printing. Currently, they are 3D-printing, we would get the product this weekend. After that , we will combine all the pieces together and it will take around 1 hour. The project is off the track a little bit, but we think we will have something to show in the …
