Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “2016-2017”
Happy Thanksgiving! Hope everyone had fun spending time with family and eating good food. Ethan here with our sixth progress blog on the X-Fade Flight Simulator. For the past two weeks, Mathew and I have gone back to programming the Flight Simulator. Mathew has successfully allowed SimTools to retrieve roll, pitch, and yaw data from DCS World (game) and send …
Propulsion team has finished testing the tilting mechanism and coded the geometry into a micro-controller so that the servo rotates the entire rotor. Next, they will use computational fluid dynamics (CFD) with the AVL. Mechanical Design has modified the landing skids of the previous prototype iteration and they have completed a third iteration of prototype is complete. The new frame …
This week, we do some more research about the relationship between wrists and torsional springs. The stiffness (K) value of stroke patients is higher than normal people because of the hardness of moving wrists around. There would be a difference in K value. At first, the standard for choosing torsional springs is matching the frequency of normal people. Then we …
As we have explained in prior blog posts, we plan to use electromyography(EMG) as our main form of allowing the amputee to control their Krobohand device. In the future, we may consider some form of hybrid of manual and EMG controlled prosthesis, but for now, we will be sticking with strictly EMG controlled via Arduino microcontroller and shield. We have …
We met with our mentor, Terry Wang, this week to discuss possibilities of the redesign of our supplement dispenser. Over the weekend, our tasks were to do some research in order to solve this problem. This Monday, Terry was able to brainstorm with us and we came to a design that is feasible. What we came up with was to …
This week, the group sat down together to draw out a schematic of the filtration system. Currently, we have planned out a four-tank system, each filled with different filter media and connected to each other via PVC piping. After the fourth tank, the water will be stored in a temporary storage tank where and Arduino will evaluate how clean the …
One week from last meeting, we all have some improvements on our design or prototype. Something special for this week’s meeting is that we finally meet in person. It has been a while for us to meet online. Among the 5 members, each of us have worked on our own design. However, there are two very similar design, so we …
Hello everyone, This week we have finished our aircraft design and successfully modeled it in Solid Works. As you can see in the picture above, we have a T tail, fuelselage, and wing designed and ready for testing and eventual fabrication. One of the main challenges of the design was the fuelselage. Initially we started off with a rather bulky …
For week 8, our group generated calculations for each of our designs. The calculation parameters and equations varied for each design. For example, for our piston-rod-mass perturbation system design, the parameters consisted of the rod length, mass, and force exerted by the piston on the mass. During our meeting, we shared the calculations we obtained for our own individual design, …
We decided to use cardboard to model the prototype, instead of going straight to a CAD model, because we felt that we would have more freedom to try new designs at any phase of our brainstorming session. CAD models limit the amount of change we can do to our design. The first change we made was to replace the bolt …
