It’s been very busy lately as we purchased a jet ski to convert it to main hull of our boat. We got a great deal on Craigslist and we have stripped down all the unnecessary parts. This required the team to separate the top part of the jet ski from the bottom part so we could begin prepping the interiors …
Following the progress from last week, each of our member worked on different designs for our ice traction device. Some actually made the prototypes and some were still working on the design in Solidworks model. Above are one of the prototypes- slide lock and one of the Solidworks designs. Our prototypes include the butterfly, flipper and slide lock. The solidworks …
This week our team reached a mile stone as we were able to get the programming for our motor to work so that it could rotate the outer frame of our system. Although the system still has a long way to come before it will be complete, we are still able to control how much the motor moves by the …
Hi readers, this is Ethan with our fifth progress blog on the X-Fade Flight Simulator. This week, we have set up safety outlines as well as our very own website so be sure to check that out if you want to know more background information about our project. We finally received the key to the lab so now we can …
We have a new 3D printer to help 3D print our parts! Propulsion team designed and printed the tilt rotor joint that allows the housing to rotate. To fit the joint into the housing, they had to cut rotor’s metal frame. Next they will work on the new flight controller and problem-solve some issues with the low servo angular range …
This last week we came together and took the feedback given from our presentation to help reorganize our priorities for the project over the next couple weeks. Currently we have settled on material and figured out ideal and minimal restraints for energy needed, size of the heater, and size of the solar panel. We are now looking to purchase a …
During week 6, we got several administrative tasks completed. For starters, we filled out all the categories of our team website. This forced us to finish many parts of our detailed Project Specifications and Project Definition forms that we had been working on. We are making more progress on detailing the specifics of our design. Secondly, we completed our team …
At the current state of the project, we are trying to build an energy model for the community in Huntington Beach that closely shows how energy is consumed so we can think of a plan to improve it in the future. In order to do that, we need to build the model for different kinds of buildings and use them …
We have finished the application for UROP. This week we decide to make 3 linkages steel or aluminum. We go to a machine shop and they ask for a 2D measurements of the three parts we want to make. For one simple linkage, we make it by ourself. The other two we convert CAD files into drawing files. We also …
For this week, we are still focusing on electrical system design as suggested by the professor. I have been working on the battery box sub-team. For those that who do not know, the battery box is where we are going to keep the high and low voltage system within the racecar. The battery box must meet many requirements, such as …
