Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “2016-2017”
This quarter we’re working on determining temperature from an image. What we’ve done this first week is test out different things we can take these images of. We did a bit of this last quarter, but with our code and analysis nearing completion, we will start gathering images of it this quarter. Last quarter we worked with charcoal briquettes, which …
Coming out of the Winter Design Review, we’re enthusiastic as a group. After being able to present a working prototype finger to many different people, we were surprised by the Dean with one of the Dean’s Choice Awards for the MAE department. Below is a video of our finger prototype attracting people to our table: Moving forward, we have three …
Welcome back! Our first meeting of Spring 2018 begun with a review of our project goal and picking up where we left off last quarter. Before all that, our project leader Cheng announced that a transition in administration for the next school year will occur at the end of Spring. This transition is something for our members to keep in …
The Winter Design Review is here! Our team leads and members came to showcase our project and support the other wonderful design projects here on campus. A few companies came around our table, about our Avionics team and the general progress we’ve made with our project. From this quarter, the Peer Review determined the top seven projects that would give …
Propulsion team has designed a cable guard that prevents wires from getting caught in the tilt rotor’s gears. They had 3D printed the joint and installed it on the tilt rotor prototype. Mechanical Design has showed their progress the new fuselage design and has completed one prototype of the electronics housing (seen in the picture above). A second, better iteration …
The Propulsion team is still working on mirroring the control signal of the left tilt rotor to the right rotor. The team is also working on the battery cage for the tilt rotor prototype. Mechanical Design has completed one phase of FEA on the plane’s frame. Using a static deformation simulation, they have calculated the frame can withstand a 1000N …
UAV Forge has been working hard before final exams catch you to our members. The Propulsion team has finalized the left side of the tilt rotor prototype. Using a remote controller, the rotor can make a 90 degree rotation. Now the team will work with the Avionics team to complete the other side and mirror the controls. The mechanical design …
The stepper motor requires 12 Volts and 2 Amps, therefore it is critical that the power supply can output the 12V and 2Amp to avoid the motor drive from overheating. The adequate resistor is not yet found to regulate the amperage, but it is being worked on. No changes to subsystem 3 or Subsystem 4 in term of design or …
This week, we finished the main assembly. First, we attached the brake clutch and pad to the lever. Then, we attached the lever to the wheelchair. In addition to finishing the final assembly, we are preparing for our design review on Friday in which we will showcase our progress on our prototype wheelchair. Our plan for next quarter is to …
The focus for this week was to put together the system in the temporary housing. The housing manufactured is a very simplified version of our CAD model, this model is solely to demonstrate the location of each component and the overall functionality. The straps on the front will hold the food container in place, it’s a representation of the plastic …
