We do some more research about the relationships between torque, linkage lengths and torsional springs at different angle. It turns out that when we increase or decrease the linkage lengths, the angle does not matter and the whole torque that the patients feel will increase or decrease the same amount and any angle. However, the result is not the same …
Greywater Recycling Week 9 Blog
The end of the quarter is nearing! This week, the final draft of our posters for the fall quarter design review was due. Most of the poster was completed during week 8, but we had a few outstanding corrections to make before it was ready to submit. The big tasks for the end of the quarter are to complete the …
UCI Transat: Our Boat Has a Name!
It’s week 10 and here at UCI Transat, we’re pleased to announce that we have received the diesel engine purchased from eBay and have had a successful engine start thanks to Connor Kingman who took the engine home over Thanksgiving break. Last weeks meeting consisted of purchasing diesel fuel and removing rust from certain parts of the engine in order …
Studying Light and CFAST
The Firebrand team has been studying light and filters. Check out the image. You’ll see the graph measures intensity versus the shutter speed at one particular ISO setting. Notice the value for red is so large that the green and blue seem negligible. We have a BG-18 filter on order which will reduce the value of the red intensity and …
Mechanical Aid for Traction on Ice- Week 9
Revised our fall poster at the workshop on Monday and submitted it on Tuesday. Right after the submission, we have a meeting with the sponsor. Following are a few points that he wants us to be aware of while we continue working on our designs: The device needs to be about an inch above the bottom of the shoe when …
Solidworks completely up to date week 9
As this week concludes, we currently have our solidworks model fully up to date including all of the parts that we will have ready for the design review next week. With the motor beginning to run with our code and the solidworks nmodel up to date, we are planning to test out how much of a payload our system can …
Rescue Robotics Week 8
This week’s meeting had us catching up over the breaks we took for midterms and holidays. The main focus of this meeting was securing the component box that holds the IOIO and Motor Controller to the third six-wheeled robot. We had new equipment after a PO came in, and with the use of the clamps and safety equipment we got …
X-Fade #6
Happy Thanksgiving! Hope everyone had fun spending time with family and eating good food. Ethan here with our sixth progress blog on the X-Fade Flight Simulator. For the past two weeks, Mathew and I have gone back to programming the Flight Simulator. Mathew has successfully allowed SimTools to retrieve roll, pitch, and yaw data from DCS World (game) and send …
Week 8: Near The End As Teams Finalize Plans
Propulsion team has finished testing the tilting mechanism and coded the geometry into a micro-controller so that the servo rotates the entire rotor. Next, they will use computational fluid dynamics (CFD) with the AVL. Mechanical Design has modified the landing skids of the previous prototype iteration and they have completed a third iteration of prototype is complete. The new frame …
Blog Week 9
This week, we do some more research about the relationship between wrists and torsional springs. The stiffness (K) value of stroke patients is higher than normal people because of the hardness of moving wrists around. There would be a difference in K value. At first, the standard for choosing torsional springs is matching the frequency of normal people. Then we …