Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “2017-2018”
Over winter break, the electric racecar team made significant progress designing and updating parts on the racecar. As Winter Quarter begins, we will enter the manufacturing phase and begin assembling and ordering parts for the racecar. This week, Michael Habana will describe the motor housings and the reasoning behind his design. The motor housing serves three main purposes: protecting the …
With the quarter nearing closure, a few major changes have been decided within UAV Forge to allow the team to move into next quarter with new vigor and resolution. In these past few weeks, the Aerodynamics team has been working on determining the viability of using the Sig-T kit plane as a testing platform for Avionics’ hardware. The Propulsion team …
As the end of Fall Quarter quickly approaches, our CanSat’s development continues to progress. During our Week 9 Biweekly General Meeting, we discussed the four different mechanical designs that team members individually proposed: 1. Umbrella Shape 2. Electromagnetic Release 3. Inflatable Heat Shield 4. Small Air Tank (Solenoid) As each team member presented their ideas and SolidWorks designs for the …
And so, our brave heros of the UCI Cansat team trek onward through the treacherous week 9 with sights on finalizing the sensors to be implemented. The looming pressure from the Fall Design Review on the horizon has only strengthen our protagonists team bond. A messenger from the house of telemetry has arrived with the following news: Some developments for …
This week, the controls subsystem took three big steps forward. First, we proved that we can read the voltage of our battery accurately and with utmost precision with a simple 15-line code and a design that weighs 0.8g. All my fellow team members thought that the weight was too much, but I won them over when I told them to …
While still in the design phase, the project has produced significant progress towards the goal of having a design for the UAV established by the end of the quarter. However, this progress has not been without its own set of issues. The most immediate and prevalent issue that has arisen is the handling of budget. Due to a few small …
This week, our Mechanical sub-team came up with a new design for the probe structure, release mechanism, and speed control mechanism. At the general meeting on Monday, we received various suggestions from other members of CanSat that give us better insights on how to improve the overall design. Pros of the current design: The design is easy to manufacture with …
This week, our project infrastructure received a major upgrade. We started a UCI GitHub repository for code, CAD, and ANSYS files! At our general meeting, Khoi, our circuits engineer, trained the rest of our team on using the repository and GitHub desktop app. GitHub serves several important functions in our project: 1. It allows both local version control, and sharing …
See that little guy up there, he can only handle 32 kb’s of information at a time. He is the center, no, the crux, the heart of of this project. Now that I have your attention, I should start by saying that this project, CanSat, is a brand new team/senior design project for UCI. We pitched our project to Professor …
