This week we work on choosing the right spring, how to make/change metal handle, and how much to adjust the location of the spring holder. For the spring, we are going to choose torsion springs based on the Torque, Spring Diameter, and Wire Diameter. We will purchase a several springs with different measurements to make sure have the best fit …
Redesign of Food Dispenser
At first, our initial design was to measure the food dispensed through weight. This calculation of mass would be our way of understanding how much grams of kibble was dispensed in order to know how much was in the bowl. Our Sponsors requested that we were to dispense the food through volume and not mass. This week our team met …
Solar Airplane Updates
Hello everyone, In this post, I hope to catch everyone up on what exactly Solar Airplane has been doing the first half of Fall Quarter and where we stand currently. After finalizing the 14 project members, three teams have been solidified (Avionics, Aerodynamic design and Power Systems) and three team leads as well. The team’s timeline has been set and …
Walking Perturber Week 5
Continuing off our previous week’s brainstorming session, we expanded on several designs by creating detailed sketches and notes for every idea. We also made a list of criteria to rank our concepts, and as a guideline to design around. We determined our device needed to be effective, simple, sturdy, portable (compact), light weight, and self-sufficient for a long duration. We …
Week 5: Project X- Ice Traction
This week, each member of the team generated a good idea for the ice traction device such as air-bag, pivot control, and the idea of retractable pen to control engage and disengage. our advisor terry also give us two suggestion design. We applied fluid dynamic, statics and gear technology in the ice traction design. Our advisor go over all the …
Krobohand – Finger Prototype Update
We’re proud to showcase what we’ve been able to achieve thus far using our designs and dual material 3D printing with regard to our finger prototype for the Krobohand. Using a combination of Inova-1800 (Co-polyester filament) and Ninjaflex (Thermoplastic Elastomer filament), we’ve been able to successfully integrate a stabilizing, as well as restoring force tendon within the body of the …
AFRL week 5
This week the team continued to move closer to testing as some modifications were made to the frame of the assembly so that it would avoid interference with our motor and some of the mounts. Before testing starts, manufacturing will just have to finalize the motor mount design to put up the motor. Other than that, manufacturing will be in …
Wirst Exo Week #5
Hi everyone, for this week, our wrist exo team met up with Dr. Reinkensmeyer to talk about our ideas for our design and to see if the design was feasible. We came up with a couple of ideas such as using rings and springs to pull the hands back. Dr. Reinkensmeyer then showed us a study a graduate student did …
Thor Batteries
A battery pack consists of a number of cells (cells are the individual batteries). When the battery pack is charged or discharged, the voltage on each cell will change at different rates. Cells can be damaged if their voltage is too high or too low. To prevent this from happening, we use a battery management system. We use the Elithion …
Thor Week 4
The past few weeks, the team had been working on wiring the electrical systems for racecar, “Thor”. This had been a major repeated issue for many years, and we hope to solve our issues with our car’s electrical systems this year. We had also drew the wiring diagram for the low voltage box. In previous years, a graduated graduate student …