Spartan Superway Personal Blog

This week: -> Contacted MEP about 3D printing a prototype for our presentation after Thanksgiving. -> Contacted Central Shop on SJSU to consult a professional about the most optimal way to mill our custom case for the most. Also wanted to ask about cost and time. -> Spoke with Dr. Furman about other shop recommendations. -> Delivered controller to controls team. -> Meet with bogie interaction team to talk about spacing for our axle. -> Did an estimate for material cost Next Week and on: -> Check in on CAD team within our motor team and push for progress. -> Purchase material for our axle and case by end of the month

This week: -> Host a team meeting on Sunday to go over final decisions of motor and controller -> Purchased KBL controllers. Another team member, David, purchased 3 motors ->  Came up with the idea to scrap the previous shaft design and create a new shaft that will act as an axle. The axle will connect the shaft of two motors. I have spoken with bogie interaction team and we do have space for our team to proceed with that method. The new shaft design will help with weight distribution. This will also allow for less work being done to the motor itself to avoid messing up the motor. -> Updated other teams about how progress and expected time of delivery for the products. -> Hosted a second team meeting on Tuesday to being CAD design of new shaft. -> 2nd meeting also consisted of updating each team member of our tasked research topic. Next week: -> Finalize on new CAD drawing -> Speak with my advisor for MEP on doing rapid prototyping. We will 3D

This Week: -> Received no reply from MAC Motor or TDCM, so we have removed them from our team's back up plan. QS motor has replied, but they do not have a suitable motor for us. -> Spoke with bogie interaction team about mounting points for our motor. Two sheets of metal will have a hole for our shaft to run through. On the center end of the shaft, we will secure the motor with a nut that will be torqued down. I currently do not have the torque specifications for that at the moment. -> I looked into airless tires and KBL controllers that would be suitable with our motor. -> After speaking with Dr. Furman about pricing and his opinion, he wanted us to look into cutting down on the number of motors and controllers. We decided to postpone purchasing motors for one more week, that would be the absolute latest. -> I also spoke with Ty about getting the funding to make our purchases. Next Week: -> Purchase controllers and motor -> Finalize on CAD des