Small-Scale-Vehicle-Design-Team

This week, we are completing manufacturing the cabin. Monday: We looked at the STL files for our cabin parts to see if anything needs to be changed or modified. The other teams are starting to 3D print their parts, so Victor and Arushi watched to make sure the pieces come out well. The Prusa printer was making it hard for us to remove the pieces once they were done because we applied glue on the printing bed to allow the filament to stick to the bed. It took us a while to remove the pieces because they were stuck to the printing bed. We decided it would be better if we did not apply any glue, but maybe if we could look into a flexible bed that the pieces can be peeled off of. We also got acrylic sheets and super glue for the windows on the cabin. We realized we couldn't cut the acrylic with a box cutter or the tools we had in the shop. Tuesday:  We cut the acrylic sheets with the dremel tool that Daniel got from home. We also started printing out our showcase model of the cabi

This week was finishing up the manufacturing of the shell prototype. Once all four parts were completed, we were able to install the screw inserts and assemble all the parts together. The finished assembled can seen below. I also set up the drop test simulation in Solidworks, but my computer is not powerful enough to finish the simulation within a reasonable time. I need to find a more powerful computer to finish the calculations. I also went to the InterSolar Conference in San Francisco, and networking with the companies there.

This week, we plan on finishing manufacturing and assembling. Monday:  We gave a presentation to the team on our progress. We were able to reprint the bottom piece, and successfully printed out the second side piece. So now we have 3 parts of the cabin printed out. Tuesday:  We successfully printed out the top piece, and began filling out our Bill of Materials spreadsheet. Wednesday: We tested the printing quality of the TAZ bot by printing a test part from online. We also updated our bill of materials spreadsheet. Most of our parts are in house, but we still do need to buy a few parts which in total costs about $26. Thursday:  The inserts to assemble the cabin came in so we were able to fit them into the top and bottom pieces, and assembled the cabin together. We also worked on figuring out how to make the current design a showcase model so that we can add furniture to show how the interior will look.  

This week, we only worked for three days since 4th of July was a day off. Monday: Arushi finished drawing our conceptual design, and finalizing it. We also created a spreadsheet for our bill of materials and inventory. We decided to begin printing out our model, so we started with the bottom piece, which takes about 4 hours to print. The printer had issues in terms of the filament not being able to stick to the base of the 3D printer, and so we planned to re-print the next day. Tuesday:  Victor worked on fixing the Prusa 3D printer and TAZ printer, reset the printer's settings twice, while Daniel and Arushi began preparing the presentation for next week, and Ben worked on figuring out how to program the Arduino. Thursday:  We revised the presentation that we will be presenting next week. We were also able to get both 3D printers to work so our production is going to be doubled. Today we printed out the top piece and the side piece. When we first printed out the side piece, t

Week 1: Design week  (6/25 - 6/28) Monday: We focused on brainstorming potential interior designs. The interior designs have to be able to fit 4-6 people. We took measurements of the full scale model, and focused on implementing the open concept so that traveling can be more luxurious, and comfortable. In addition, our team decided we could use foldable seating, or benches so that we could have space to possibly fit two bikes per pod car. We also decided on adding a few additional features. We first prototyped our design by forming a cardboard diorama.                         Tuesday: Each of us drew several sketches of what the pod car could potentially look like, as well as making a digital sketch using SketchUp. We researched the general requirements for space and seating in a bus, so we could model the interior of the pod car accordingly. We made adjustments to the general shape of the car, now being hexagonal to represent a gondola. We also tested the 3D printer to see ho

This week we presented to the team, our plan on accomplishing our task for this summer. In our presentation we talked about the deliverables that we will be accomplishing, how we will be accomplishing it, and included a week-by-week visual of our Gantt chart. We also began taking measurements of the existing scale models, and brainstorming designs we could implement on the existing pod car. Link to our Lightning Talk Presentation:  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1orOKPO3Adw5B5iASvM1zw8K0DKK3L8ZryulEZxuU6tw/edit#slide=id.g3c50eaed16_0_116