tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52608232844235129702024-03-13T15:06:24.175-07:00F17 Spartan Superway Cabin Design TeamAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01250789593655907098noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5260823284423512970.post-62038815428988646682018-05-10T18:08:00.001-07:002018-05-10T18:08:28.920-07:00week of 5/9/2018This week is our final meeting for the project term, and I have successfully completed my tasks as part of the Cabin Design team. We will now spend the next week preparing for Maker Faire. We are now working on our presentation which will come up this Friday in addition to our Final Report.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16152427961963050875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5260823284423512970.post-70231131058960782972018-03-02T15:34:00.002-08:002018-03-02T15:41:02.874-08:00Week of 2/28The cabin team came together to discuss our new 3D printing source. over the last week We contacted Yousseffi again to see if he was willing to make time for us but he still has not gotten back to us. Darren plans on visiting him on office hours and see if he can be one of our backup sources. As another option for our new 3D printing source, we have approached the campus' Central Machine Shop who agreed to print our model. At the moment this may be our number one source for convenient printing. Right now they are awaiting Furman's approval before they begin printing and we are still waiting on a possible delivery date.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01250789593655907098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5260823284423512970.post-28807072563632754202018-03-02T15:34:00.000-08:002018-03-02T15:39:01.000-08:00Week of 2/21This week, teams presented their first official presentations of the semester. Ours can be found in the below link. To summarize our progress so far, our 3D printing source was unable to finish our print before their machine ran into technical issues. Therefore we had to find a new source to print our model. This makes us about 2 weeks behind and is preventing us from making further modifications to accommodate for the controls and bogey team if our current model is insufficient in any capacity. Fortunately we still have enough time to make one more version before Maker Faire as intended. Right now the priority is to find another printing source that can be reliable right now and down the road.<br />
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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1guTPmBqMLvPL30xQpiMvD5ka80hHPlwlvpc35xBgSZ4/edit#slide=id.g3208203d60_0_237Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01250789593655907098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5260823284423512970.post-36869615384650023472018-02-17T04:50:00.003-08:002018-03-02T16:04:28.701-08:00Weeks of 2/7 + 2/14These two weeks were spent finishing up the CAD model of the podcar, which is roughly 98% complete. Input data from the controls team regarding compartments (if they are still desiring that) will be recorded. The next model to be printed will be the 98% model. The remaining 2% will be addressed in our final version of the model. That 2% will accommodate any last minute changes and goals we plan on accomplishing. Printing sources are being procured as of now.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16152427961963050875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5260823284423512970.post-82709604150102503962018-01-31T13:38:00.000-08:002018-03-02T16:05:25.603-08:00Week of 1/31This week our team worked on brief lightning talks to update the rest of the group on our progress and our plans for this semester. Topics include design changes to the model to account for aesthetics and implementation of boundary surfaces. Biggest efforts as of now are to find a reliable printing source.<br />
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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TcPLNo8fo-z-cJM5OdKbu7zWqIOxC8mxsOZgQGmI_vg/edit#slide=id.p4Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16152427961963050875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5260823284423512970.post-66751915917147898082018-01-24T15:27:00.000-08:002018-02-13T11:52:12.653-08:00Week of 1/24This week, the meeting was short but the team gathered together to plan the lightning presentation for next week. The presentation plans to briefly discuss an overview of last semester's progress and discuss this semester's plans and goals for maker faire.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01250789593655907098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5260823284423512970.post-26547157488502838762017-12-06T18:21:00.000-08:002017-12-18T16:52:50.354-08:00Week of 12/6This meeting was the last of the semester before winter break starts. The last of the presentations of the groups were done today. The 12th scale cabin team's presentation can be found below. For a quick recap of the progress done so far:<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16152427961963050875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5260823284423512970.post-19381121700835090642017-10-25T23:46:00.001-07:002017-10-25T23:46:56.110-07:00Week of 10/22This week the team has received the printing of prototype 1 with the aid of professor Youssefi. This will allow the other teams to have a physical model to provide feedback on from which we can modify our design accordingly. At this very moment the cabin team is waiting on the other 1/12 scale teams to figure out how they want to orient their components. This must be done before cad modeling of prototype 2 can begin.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01250789593655907098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5260823284423512970.post-84506931391260426362017-10-25T23:44:00.001-07:002017-10-25T23:44:38.305-07:00Week of 10/18<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px;">This meeting was spent having all 1/12 scale teams present their progress in the second presentation of the semester. In summary this team's presentation provided the CAD model of Prototype 1. Prototype 1 was meant to serve as a overly large place holder to let the 1/12 scale teams room to figure out how they want to orient their components. More accurate dimensions will be made once the other 1/12 teams do so. Prototype 2 will also incorporate alternatives covered in the presentation. Before printing is made, the better of the two alternative models for prototype 2 will be chosen based on aerodynamic analysis in solidworks.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px;" /><br />Future steps and contingency plans are discussed in the following presentation:</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01250789593655907098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5260823284423512970.post-31650626034682994622017-10-17T19:02:00.000-07:002017-10-22T22:44:09.884-07:00Week 10/11This week we will be working on materials and items necessary for our presentation. The CAD model drafts will be done by then to elaborate on certain aspects during the presentation. Factors and calculations such as shear stress on certain components will be elaborated upon. Hopefully the cabin team can get a hold of a physical model within a week or two. Also, over the course of next week the team hopes to make new cabin dimensions based on other 1/12 scale team parts. Based on this Prototype 2 will begin CAD modeling stage.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16152427961963050875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5260823284423512970.post-66017030220497024642017-10-10T18:57:00.002-07:002017-10-10T18:57:56.894-07:00Week of 10/4This week the cabin design team modeled a simple base model of the cabin for testing purposes for both the bogie and controls teams. The intent behind this being that hopefully we can receive feedback from both groups as to what to fix and work around. This ideally will save some time in doing the 3D modeling if we can get more precise measurements and constraints before going all in into the final designs. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16152427961963050875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5260823284423512970.post-6285854993099501522017-10-03T22:40:00.001-07:002017-10-03T22:45:37.493-07:00Possible Design FeaturesWith our presentation of our project progress so far, we received some helpful feedback that we will most likely implement in our new design:<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01250789593655907098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5260823284423512970.post-33090950978426626012017-10-03T17:57:00.001-07:002017-10-03T17:57:52.730-07:00Week of 9/27This week the 12th scale cabin team established basic parameters and dimensions to aim for. Currently the goal is to make a basic model of the cabin in SolidWorks with pure functionality in mind to accommodate for the bogie and the controls. Ideally the CAD model will be ready by the following week as necessary changes will be made according to the designs and specifications of the bogie and controls team. Aesthetics will be added as time progresses.<br />
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Additionally, all team members of the 12th scale model team has established basic communication protocol with one another, agreeing to a schedule of updates and checking the group message boards.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16152427961963050875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5260823284423512970.post-40297797209873531232017-09-26T15:06:00.001-07:002017-10-03T22:46:34.878-07:009/20 Meeting to 9/26For last week's meeting we spent most of the session listening to the full and half scale presentations on what they accomplished so far and their plans for the rest of the semester. Our team along with the other 1/12 scale teams are presenting tomorrow (9/24). Leading up into tomorrow our team planned on having our first draft of our CAD drawing and receiving feedback from the 1/12 scale teams. However we still have to get access to the AutoCAD. But after tomorrow we hope to talk to the 1/12 scale teams to get their components sizes and figure out dimensions of our cabin designs and start our 3D drawings.<br />
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The presentation can be found on the link below along with pictures of initial and current designs.<br />
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<span>The 12th scale teams also set up means of communication with one another, since all of our work and designs are at least somewhat co-dependent on one another. Our teams have agreed to use Slack.com for talking and sharing files. This will be addressed and reflected upon in our presentation. </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16152427961963050875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5260823284423512970.post-21146736691788559332017-09-12T00:36:00.000-07:002017-09-12T00:36:09.988-07:00Week of 9/3 Pt.2Last Wednesday, our meeting was mostly full of presentations of the other Spartan Superway subgroups. The presentations largely covered each of the subgroups' obstacles and goals for the semester. Presentations were graded and suggestions for each project were given by Furman and Hagstrom.<br />
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Once our group presented we received very helpful feedback for our project. Some suggestions we found helpful was considering the size of the cabin, having transparent walls, the shape of the cabin not being an eye sore, etc. Our group decided to have three mockup designs by next Wednesday and take the best from the ideas. Also, we'll talk to the other 1/12 design teams to see how feasible our design is.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01250789593655907098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5260823284423512970.post-35461908297378918242017-09-06T01:11:00.003-07:002017-09-12T00:30:03.144-07:00Week of 9/3This post was made before our lightning presentation for Wednesday, 9/6. As previously stated in our last post, we are trying to aiming for a design that is both aerodynamically efficient and aesthetically pleasing to the public. As we do not have the specific dimensions of the components needed to be housed inside the model, we only have a rough guess of how we currently plan on incorporating the small components in the model. Below is our rough design and a link to our lightning presentation:<br />
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Ideally the cabin will have an interior designed to fit the batteries and control components with compartments designated for each. This would allow for simpler maintenance and organization. The door would be made in a way that would provide an interior cross section of the entire cabin, similar to the one already made.<br />
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