For the past two weeks, our circular UAV team has 1) Finished the CNC milling of the wing bodies after failing for numerous times. 2) Designed te frame and CAD the carbon tube connectors. 3) 3D printed the prototype motor mount and frame connectors. 4) Received the carbon tubes for framing the body. 5) Peer reviewed. For the next week, …
This is the mold of diverging part of the hybrid engine nozzle. it took 33 hours to print.
We have finished the fabrication of vector thrust gimbal system This is the test video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT_OfHLh5ao
Our biggest accomplishment this week was that our team came in 5th place out of the 26 teams that participated for the winter peer review. Because we placed in the top 7, we were invited to present to industry representatives on March 11th. This quarter our team was more prepared due to the constructive criticism we received from the fall …
End of week 6! Time to check in: What have we done so far? Currently we have purchase orders out for the plastics grinder from FilaMaker and the spooler from Filabot. We are also currently redesigning the batteries that will hold the charge from the bikes and solar power. We are also currently checking the power draw from all of …
This week we prepared for the Quarterly Peer Review. It was very nice to have our advisor attend and support us as we presented. Mike did a great job putting together everyone’s presentation materials and leading the presentation. We sent out the purchase orders for some parts we needed to fix the cooling system, and we received them this week. …
We have finalized the design for our liquid engine. We have finished the manufacturing of Nozzle and Combustion Chamber. If we have enough funding, we will manufacture the injector plate.
We have developed a MATLAB code to do the hybrid engine thermal analysis.
We have finished the coding of avionics system. We are currently doing the reliability test. We will test this avionics by using high altitude balloon on spring break
We have finished the CAD design and 3D printed the prototype. We will finish the assembly by end of this week.
