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We are back and ready for our final quarter! A lot has happened since our last blog! Winter Design Review was a great success. We are excited to report that our project received the Dean’s Choice Award during the Winter Design Review last quarter! After many hours of practicing and editing our presentation & poster, we were able to show …
This week we were able to manufacture an airfoil section, the section was made from plywood and was cut to one fourth scale. The purpose of this was to to get an idea of how we will begin to manufacture our parts but also to see our hard work in real life.
One of the big differences between the FSAE competition/SAE Baja competition and the FSAE Electric Competition is the volume of extra documentation required of the teams. Electric teams can expect to send in 4 extra documents with over 120 more pages of paperwork. The Electrical Systems Form can account for 100 of these pages. It is a technical report describing …
For the past few weeks, our team 1) Finished the carbon frame structure for the wing body. 2) Put together the foam wing bodies that we fabricated. 3) Cut out channels on the prototype wing body for the frame. 4) Assembled the final body of the prototype with the airframe. 5) Finished the CAD model and poster for winter design …
This is the first look at AR-10 Electra’s chassis. Our main goal is to have every person working on the car be able to drive without serious modifications. This was done by creating a rules compliant front roll hoop section as well as ensuring the suspension parts will not become a visual impairment down the road. Besides having the front …
Mike Crow assembled the majority of the test circuit for the solar panels in order to start the data collection. We are still waiting for the potentiometer to come in. The potentiometer will be able to deliver an increase or decrease of resistance through out a period of time. He also worked on the data collection file for the solar …
The hybrid engine mold is ready for use. We will have a fiberglass prototype of hybrid engine by the design review
with the help from Colin Sledge , we successfully tested the parafoil for the precision landing system. The decent rate is good for testing the precision landing system.
February was a productive month for our Raider team; although we’re running a bit behind schedule, we’re shooting to have a steerable car on wheels by the Winter design review (Mar. 11) and a car ready for testing soon after that. Suspension components are the biggest holdup due to all of the machining involved; we’ve definitely learned our lesson in …
-Mike Crow has been working on our presentation for the Winter Design Review which we will present to the industry panel this March 11th. We have had steady progress on the photo voltaic cell circuit. We estimate to be finished by the end of this week if we continue with no interruptions. The Arduino code is being updated in order …
