Week 9: 10/17 - 10/24

This week:

-> Set up in person meeting for group presentation

-> Contacted back up companies for a motor. Companies include TDCM and QS Motor.

-> Sent MAC Motor a new inquiry due to no response from them for over 2 weeks

-> Share crowdfunding on social media.

-> Did research on KBL controllers and learned that each motor needs its own controller. I also did a rough estimate for how much this would cost the team.

-> Kept in contact with other teams and updated them on our issues. Also answered questions they had or at least refer them to the team member that had the information other teams were looking for.


Next Week:

-> Finalize on what motor to buy

-> Contact and check in with Ty about getting the money from AS to buy our motors.

-> Run calculations on specifications of motor to see if we can cut down on the number of motors we need.

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