The molding package has arrived. We did finish the order from machine shop at Physical Science Building. Fortunately, the order has been finished and we will go pick it up on Monday. We will finish the hand molding on next Tuesday of week 4 and the 3D Scanning on week 4. The bars and linkages, after a group meeting, will …
MPOWRD Winter Week 3: Revised Timeline/Budget
This week, we put together our schedule for the quarter. The goal is to manufacture and create a prototype of the wheelchair rehabilitation device that can be detached from the wheelchair and transported independently. The timeline is as follows: For week three, our plan is to deliver the drawings to the tubing fabricator. For week five, we expect to receive …
Configuration and First Test
This week, we finally got our CARLorado robot moving under Bluetooth control. Early in the week, we had all downloaded Android Studio and begun to make sense of the program and the sample codes we were given. It took a lot of google searching, but eventually we were able to make sense of all that was happening, and downloaded the …
Assembly, testing, and Problem identification
This week the team worked to assemble the inner frame of the test bed in order to test the programming for our motor. During assembly we were able to identify some major and minor problems that will affect how the test bed can handle its loads. After putting together the test bed we were able to identify more issues and …
Winter Week 2: Analyzing and Tweaking Components
Propulsion team have successfully got one of the tilt rotors to function with the flight controller by fixing electrical gain and polarity of the set up. They discovered that the autopilot mechanism and the controller operate on opposite polarity, meaning the signals are impeding each other. The team also reworked the joints of the quadcopter prototype to reduce the vibration …
Analyzing Light Intensities and Wavelengths
We are making good progress! We’ve accurately determined the temperature of our heating rod at different potentiometer settings with a type K, glass braided thermocouple. Our thermocouple is connected to an amplifier that converts the voltage (from the thermocouple) into temperature readings with an Arduino. With the glowing rod heated to 360 K and 953 K (the maximum temperature our …
Autonomous Boat Week 3 Progress
A new year has started and members of the UCI Transat Project are working hard on completing this project in time for launching it on it’s journey from California to Catalina over Spring Break. Over the Winter break, team lead Connor Kingman installed a filter on the fuel intake line to remove impurities before they enter the engine and potentially …
Antenna Deployment Testing and More Sponsorships
On Sunday 1/22 we were able to perform our first antenna deployment test. Testing had to be conducted using a makeshift cardboard box due to being unable to 3D print the CubeSat frame. Nevertheless, the test was a success as the antenna was able to deploy and transmit wirelessly the data sent from the smartphone. The testing setup went through …
Walking Perturber Week 2 Progress
Reconvening after the winter break, we are now ready to start testing our prototype designs. This past week, we combed through our designs to create a bill of materials for each part. Our goal is to build crude prototypes to evaluate the overall effectiveness of each idea, allowing us to pursue the truly best design. While we wait for our …
Winter Update
This Winter Quarter we are ready to get the ball rolling and have very exciting updates. During Fall Quarter our team was comprised of only two members. Due to the very limited amount of resources that exists for biomimetic propulsion, a lot of research was conducted on what currently exists and where to begin. Our team created a first draft …