Last Saturday, we finally did a presentation for another program that has been vital to our group’s funding: the Multidisciplinary Design Program (MDP). After the prior week’s intense presentation and promotion at TedxUCI and UROP, our group kept the momentum going in preparation for MDP’s Symposium at Calit2 where we both presented a slideshow and our cart for viewing. IMG_6921Our …
We were able to make the wing frame by laser cutting the airfoil spars from plywood. The hard part was matching the dimensions of the front spar to the I-beam we made, so we had to re-dimension the design to match. Once we did that we attached all the pieces together and the wing frame was finished.
May 14th was a huge day for S.P.A.M. as we agreed to present our group’s mobile sustainable 3D printing system at two prestigious events for UCI! Both events, held at locations roughly 6 miles apart, were TedxUCIrvine (located at Segerstrom Center for the Arts) and the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Symposium (located on campus at UCI). While our presentation …
For our fuel cell cooling system, we have attached the hoses on the system. We plan to test the water circulation once our shipment of larger hose clamps comes in and we can safely be able to test it. For our MATLAB model, we have found data for the annual PM 2.5 emissions from power plants. PM 2.5 refers to …
This is the design of rocket flight control and recovery system. It is similar to the platform avionics, but due to the size limit, this system use CDMA (Verizon) as secondary recovery system. The platform avionics uses SPOT Trace as backup recovery system
After we lost the first avionics system, we add a solar panel and a commercial recovery system to the platform. We use battery with larger capacity.
We have finished the major parts of the ground station user interface. The user interface can plot and store the data in real time. It can also plot the current rockoon system location in google map. The similar user interface will be used in hybrid engine static fire test
For Spring 2016, the challenge for Rocket Engine Development Stand Team was to determine how to collect the load cell data in a safe and secure manner. Together, we came up with three methods and chose the final method based on budget-efficiency and feasibility. The Stand Team had $100 to spend on both anchoring the rocket stand and wiring the …
Manufacture Team for Rocket Engine Development has completed the rocket stand., which could withstand 1000 lb of thrust from the rocket engine’s combustion. The challenge set by the Manufacturing Team was to build the stand from the CAD model made by Stand Team in Winter 2016, and to machine the rocket. We are manufacturing the stand by cutting, welding, drilling …
During Week 7, the Flow Team for Rocket Engine Development created their final fuel grain. The labs in Engineering Tower kindly allowed the team to mix and quench the fuel grain components. After two quarters of research the Flow Team decided on a composition of Carbon Black, Aluminum Powder, HTPB, IDP(HTPB catalyst) and Paraffin wax. After hours of melting, measuring, …
