Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “2015-2016”
Despite our setbacks, we’re now steadily making progress towards our finished product and it’s getting exciting. These past two weeks have been pretty busy for all of us on our team, but we’re managing to get our individual tasks done, and I can see the project coming together. On the electrical side of things, we’re finally branching away from our …
For our model, we have found articles that relate health benefit costs to power plant emissions. We will use these numbers to estimate the health benefit savings that would result from a renewably powered data center. Also, we will use the amount of electricity that is generated from the system to determine what a reasonable levelized cost of electricity is. …
For our fuel cell cooling system, our two members John and Allen have learned how to thread pipes from one of the engineers in engineering laboratory facility. We have submitted the purchase order for a big fan for the cooling system. Originally, we were planning on moving the fuel cell out of its current position; however, after much debate we …
Last Friday, we met with Terry Wang in order to discuss our deliverables for this quarter. We discussed the tasks each member is responsible for. It seems as though we are in good shape as long as we continue to stay motivated. Our poster which won the Dean’s Choice Award is now on display at UCI’s Ayala Science Library along …
This avionics will be used in Rockoon platform and Rocket in the future. During the test, due to the high wind speed, the system continuously output attitude warning signal, and this caused the battery die much faster than our design.
We did the preliminary analysis of the high altitude balloon test. The balloon flight path matches the University of Michigan’s predictor. However, we only searched the landing zone predicted by Cambridge University.
We finally finish the fabrication of injector plate. Cold flow test looks good
We conducted the first major test on April 17th. We lost the communication with balloon thirty minutes after launch.
Last quarter we had some difficulties integrating our system on Unity. Toward the end, with some help from a fellow student in computer science, we were able to figure out a lot of the kinks within our code. We are still dealing with optimizing the code and are in the process of 3D printing our controller. What we decided on …
For these past few weeks the structural team has begun to place the finishing touch on the design of the interior frame. The importance of these last two weeks was to optimize the structural integrity of frame such that it is as light as possible while also being as sturdy and as strong as possible. They have also begun to …
