The group worked hard to get a lot done during week 10 and finals week. First and foremost, we had the fall design review. Our poster was well organized and easy on the eyes, and we were able to talk to a few people about our project. Overall, the event went pretty smoothly. Around the same time, we hammered out …
With final exams chasing our heels, UAV Forge wraps it up for the year. Here are the last tasks the teams have completed and their goals for next quarter. The Propulsion team has nearly completed a prototype structure of the tilt rotor set up. They have confirmed that the tandem software for the tilt rotor controller is working, but the …
Hopefully everyone got a chance to see the new BAJA SAE car! The 2016-2017 Baja Team made their goal of getting the car rolling for the design review along with mounting the drive-train and steering column. The team has put over 2000 hours into the design, validation, and manufacturing of this vehicle thus far.
We had our last meeting for this quarter on Thursday. Following are a few progress and conclusion we have made. For the two flip prototypes, they are able to achieve more practical size. However, there are still lots of problems such as the rotating point position. One of them include the slide to avoid the contact with the ground which …
This past Friday, we were able to participate in the Engineering Senior Design Peer Review and present our project as well as explore other projects. Reviewing other projects’ posters gave us insight to team structure conditions, timelines, budgets and some intellectual properties set forth by various teams. It also gave us a moment to ponder what has been done and …
For week 10 of our project, we focused on compiling the lab report as requested by our advisor. At our weekly group meeting, we created a Google drive file so that all group members could edit the report simultaneously. We began by first identifying the background of our project. In brief, our project is structured around the fact that as …
This weeks last meetings had us working on the development of the Rover5 platform. We reverse-engineered the existing model, and built up a second- however the wiring posed a challenge. It was unclear about the orientation of the robot chassis (front/back) due to the design of the kit. This led to some issues when drilling the holes in the laser-cut …
Over the last 9 weeks Anteater Racing Electric has been very busy making huge strides with this year’s vehicle! We finally completed and got a circuit design concept, for the painful, brake plausibility device, BPD for short. The BPD is a device that would trigger the shutdown circuit in the car if the driver hard brakes and power was delivered …
This week, we prepared for our senior design review. We attended the workshop held by the School of Engineering where we received feedback on our poster. The reviewers had a chart, ranking topics that needed to be on the poster by level of importance. The background, goals and innovation were the most important parts of the poster. We also spent …
This week, we took the cardboard design that we made last week and built a CAD model. Below is a picture of this model. In the picture attached to this blog post, there are a few major components captured. First, the lever; it is attached to the inside of the wheel and curved around the wheel with a handle protruding …
