Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “2016-2017”
We’ve continued to work on landing on a finger design that we think will be the most viable in our final upper limb prosthesis design, Krobohand. As we showed in our last blog, we had a complete redesign of the finger, with many changes that proved to be extremely beneficial in practicality, but also some that were not as beneficial. …
The Thermal Energy Team has completed their testing and data analysis for the different material and fluid combinations. Steel & coolant had the highest power output and will be used to fabricate the final body-powered flashlight. Aluminum, steel, and polystyrene (a type of plastic) were tested with air, water, and radiator coolant. These materials and fluids have the following properties …
It’s been very busy lately as we purchased a jet ski to convert it to main hull of our boat. We got a great deal on Craigslist and we have stripped down all the unnecessary parts. This required the team to separate the top part of the jet ski from the bottom part so we could begin prepping the interiors …
Following the progress from last week, each of our member worked on different designs for our ice traction device. Some actually made the prototypes and some were still working on the design in Solidworks model. Above are one of the prototypes- slide lock and one of the Solidworks designs. Our prototypes include the butterfly, flipper and slide lock. The solidworks …
This week our team reached a mile stone as we were able to get the programming for our motor to work so that it could rotate the outer frame of our system. Although the system still has a long way to come before it will be complete, we are still able to control how much the motor moves by the …
Hi readers, this is Ethan with our fifth progress blog on the X-Fade Flight Simulator. This week, we have set up safety outlines as well as our very own website so be sure to check that out if you want to know more background information about our project. We finally received the key to the lab so now we can …
We have a new 3D printer to help 3D print our parts! Propulsion team designed and printed the tilt rotor joint that allows the housing to rotate. To fit the joint into the housing, they had to cut rotor’s metal frame. Next they will work on the new flight controller and problem-solve some issues with the low servo angular range …
During week 6, we got several administrative tasks completed. For starters, we filled out all the categories of our team website. This forced us to finish many parts of our detailed Project Specifications and Project Definition forms that we had been working on. We are making more progress on detailing the specifics of our design. Secondly, we completed our team …
At the current state of the project, we are trying to build an energy model for the community in Huntington Beach that closely shows how energy is consumed so we can think of a plan to improve it in the future. In order to do that, we need to build the model for different kinds of buildings and use them …
We have finished the application for UROP. This week we decide to make 3 linkages steel or aluminum. We go to a machine shop and they ask for a 2D measurements of the three parts we want to make. For one simple linkage, we make it by ourself. The other two we convert CAD files into drawing files. We also …
