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Over the last 9 weeks Anteater Racing Electric has been very busy making huge strides with this year’s vehicle! We finally completed and got a circuit design concept, for the painful, brake plausibility device, BPD for short. The BPD is a device that would trigger the shutdown circuit in the car if the driver hard brakes and power was delivered …
This week, we prepared for our senior design review. We attended the workshop held by the School of Engineering where we received feedback on our poster. The reviewers had a chart, ranking topics that needed to be on the poster by level of importance. The background, goals and innovation were the most important parts of the poster. We also spent …
This week, we took the cardboard design that we made last week and built a CAD model. Below is a picture of this model. In the picture attached to this blog post, there are a few major components captured. First, the lever; it is attached to the inside of the wheel and curved around the wheel with a handle protruding …
We do some more research about the relationships between torque, linkage lengths and torsional springs at different angle. It turns out that when we increase or decrease the linkage lengths, the angle does not matter and the whole torque that the patients feel will increase or decrease the same amount and any angle. However, the result is not the same …
The end of the quarter is nearing! This week, the final draft of our posters for the fall quarter design review was due. Most of the poster was completed during week 8, but we had a few outstanding corrections to make before it was ready to submit. The big tasks for the end of the quarter are to complete the …
It’s week 10 and here at UCI Transat, we’re pleased to announce that we have received the diesel engine purchased from eBay and have had a successful engine start thanks to Connor Kingman who took the engine home over Thanksgiving break. Last weeks meeting consisted of purchasing diesel fuel and removing rust from certain parts of the engine in order …
The Firebrand team has been studying light and filters. Check out the image. You’ll see the graph measures intensity versus the shutter speed at one particular ISO setting. Notice the value for red is so large that the green and blue seem negligible. We have a BG-18 filter on order which will reduce the value of the red intensity and …
Revised our fall poster at the workshop on Monday and submitted it on Tuesday. Right after the submission, we have a meeting with the sponsor. Following are a few points that he wants us to be aware of while we continue working on our designs: The device needs to be about an inch above the bottom of the shoe when …
As this week concludes, we currently have our solidworks model fully up to date including all of the parts that we will have ready for the design review next week. With the motor beginning to run with our code and the solidworks nmodel up to date, we are planning to test out how much of a payload our system can …
This week’s meeting had us catching up over the breaks we took for midterms and holidays. The main focus of this meeting was securing the component box that holds the IOIO and Motor Controller to the third six-wheeled robot. We had new equipment after a PO came in, and with the use of the clamps and safety equipment we got …
