The hardware and software involved with 3D printing is beginning to slow down in terms of innovation. Most of the consumer level printers are all variations of a similar theme. They use Cartesian coordinates and g-code to tell the hot-end where to go, how much filament to put onto the build plate, and so on. These tasks were no easy …
This week we completed the modeling for the electrolyzer and hydrogen storage tank. Now we must model the fuel cell to determine how much electricity can be sent to the data center from the fuel cell. Once we complete the fuel cell model, we will be able to model the entire system. Our fuel cell cooling team has completed a …
With our proof of concept model giving usable amounts of power in the initial estimates, more detailed analytical work showed additional forces that seemed hard to take into account in the power area density. To properly estimate how much power we can produce from a one tile size model, we decided to first make a miniature tile model for both …
After our trip to Beijing, China to meet and present our research with the PKU student team, it was determined that it would prove to be more beneficial for us all to move forward with a new design aimed at using a kind of tile floor to harvest energy from daily commuters walking. Going into winter break, our UCI team …
We were assigned the task of setting up and building lights for the Newport Boat Parade in honor of UCI’s 50th anniversary. This was the first year that UCI had participated in this event. In order to keep up with what our lab stands for, we ran the “UCI @ 50” lights off of bike power! We created a battery …
This week we have received our initial polymer material samples. Over the weekend we set a mold to cure and the sample came out great. We have begun testing it for strength and are going to be incorporating it into our prototype. We are still awaiting more polymer samples this week to make comparisons and determine with type of polymers …
These past couple weeks, my team has been working on getting the potentiometers, to work with Unity and also enabling the accelerometer and bluetooth to function. In terms of the potentiometer, two team members have gotten one potentiometer to work in Unity. They made this possible by interacting with codes in Arduino where it would convert the analog changes of …
For the past week, our Circular UAV team, 1) Modified and finalized the manufacturing method. 2) Made contact with Fabworks for training on fabrication machinery. 3) Submitted purchase orders for fabrication materials. 4) Calculated the data we needed and sized the models for the wind tunnel testing. For the following week, we are going to get trained with Fabworks. Moreover, …
While SPAM did not exist until after the Decathlon it was the reason for our founding so we figured we should share with you the project as a whole and what we specifically did for it! The competition consists of 10 categories. We were scored based on our electricity use, our comfortability levels (heating and cooling), our design, our engineering, …
Hi everybody! My name is William Amos and I am currently a 3rd year Environmental Engineering major with an interest in sustainable design. Some people call me Will, actually most people call me Will. Some just call me “The Dude” but we wont get into that. I really enjoy solving problems. Specifically issues that most have deemed solved and rarely …
