During this meeting, the 1/12th scale teams presented their projects and the goals for the upcoming semester. Presentation 1 described the scope of the projects, the design specifications, and the Gantt chart for all of the teams so everyone is able to stay on track for their projects. We are planning to finish our design phase soon and will begin rapid prototyping as soon as everyone is on the same page. Our team still has to complete some design work to complete on Solidworks, however, there is good progress. Within two weeks, the bill of materials should be published.
This is the week before Spring Break and the team is motivated on gaining some headway with this project. The last couple of weeks we have mainly been doing preparation work to get some of the components of the track completed. This week, however, Kevin worked hard to complete the curve sections of the track with his bender mechanism. The completed part can be seen in the figure below: Based on last week's work, the team poured concrete into the concrete molds, found in the image below. This week, the team took apart the molds and cleaned up the concrete that sits on top of the leveling mechanism of the supports. Since some of the molds allowed minimal concrete to spill over, the team needed to break the stray hardened concrete. The finished leveling system is shown below: The team has spent a lot of time in the shop and hopefully, we are able to use this break to regain energy in order to finish strong.
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