This week, although week 3, was our first official meeting for the ground team of the UCI Rescue Robotics Challenge. We are a small team of 5, and all introduced ourselves and talked about our various backgrounds, and dove into what we would be working on throughout this quarter. Professor Krichmar brought out some of the robots from the previous …
These past two weeks have been a journey so far. As the Documentation Manager of this year’s Pet Feeder Industry project, I shall bring you all along the ups and downs of our expedition to the end. The first week entailed of our team getting to know each other more and assigning certain responsibilities to better organize the roles of …
We are kicking the year off with our new team and new ideas to make an Xtreme Flying and Driving Emulator (X – FADE)! We have just recently established our team roles and project goals. The team consists of four members: McHenry will be the team lead, KC will be the purchasing manager, Matt will be the safety officer, and …
As a new member of the UAV Forge project, I was greeted by an air of excitement and focus during our Week 2 meeting at the Donald Bren Hall. Each team has begun preparing to bring their ideas to life, from training the Fabrication members, drawing up concepts of the plane’s frame in Mechanical Design, and testing the programming code …
The SPAM team didn’t go dormant this summer, not in the slightest. Aldrin and William continued to manage the lab space and worked tirelessly with professor Jackson to help continue a ten year project to transform the Marching Cubes graphics algorithm from a digital rendering process into a physical one. This tangible meditation on the interaction between the computer and …
The S.P.A.M Team at the Beall Center for Art and Technology The SPAM team gave a successful presentation of our cart during a two day exhibition at the Beall Center June 3-4. The exhibition, focused on student made inter-media art, was a fantastic venue to show the cart in a different light than had been done previously. As an art …
Finally, after all the hard work throughout the year, we successfully flew the Circular UAV during finals week! Special thanks to Professor Haithem Taha for advising our project, Colin Sledge for guiding us step by step through the whole process and piloting our UAV, and Terry Wang for providing advice, directions, and making our poster, presentations, and documentations look professional. …
The aerial wind turbine power team has designed a simple circuit, which includes a switch, a voltage regulator, a generator, a breadboard, and a pack of batteries. Through manual testing we were able to see that circuit design works and that the light bulb will light up.
We are assembling the prototype 2. We expect to have it done by the end of week 10
We have finished the fabrication of the hybrid engine mold. We expect to finish the composite hybrid engine by the end of week 10
