Spartan Superway Half Scale Suspension 2017

This week, we began acquiring the materials needed to build our suspension. Salvador picked up bar stock for much less than we expected to pay. We also took a battery from the Superway garage for powering the actuator with. Now that the process of acquiring the materials has begun, we will begin to build our suspension.  1" x 1" Steel bar Actuator battery Next week, we will acquire the other materials.

This week is Spring Break, so we will use this time to relax. Next week, we will prepare our slides for Presentation 2.

For this week, we updated the Spartan Superway team about our progress in the semester with our first presentation. A link to our presentation can be found below.

This week, we were updated on other sub-teams' progress in the semester through their presentations. We will prepare for our presentation, in which the second set of teams will present next week. We also discussed on adding bearings to the joints of the linkages to reduce the amount of friction in the system. Next week we will have the CAD updated and ready to showcase for our first presentation.

This week we had a general session for ME195B on how to make an effective presentation. Afterwards, we headed back to the shop and discussed how the test frame would be built in order to showcase our design in Maker Faire. We plan on using leftover parts and materials found in the Superway shop so that we wouldn't need to add more on to our Bill of Materials.

Instead of bringing the entire half-scale track to Maker Fair to demonstrate our design, we will be designing a frame that will showcase it instead. The design will begin within the next few weeks. We have also started Arduino program for the gyroscope and linear actuator.

We set up an appointment with Dr. Viswanathan to discuss the analysis of our linkage design. We also gave a lightning talk to the Spartan Superway sub-teams about our progress. A link to the presentation is shown below.