As a team earlier this week, we mainly worked on the design presentation. Since there was a lot of material to cover about Passing Partner, going through the slides together helped John prepare what to say within the time limit. After we went through our design change last week by having the vertical tilt function static at 45º, our biggest risk that could jeopardize our success is still likely the wheel launching mechanism. We have been mitigating this risk as much as we can by thoroughly outlining calculations and selecting parts that overshoot our quantitative specifications to have room for flexibility.
We are currently on schedule, so there are no updates to report. Besides the change made last week to implement a 45º vertical angle instead, we have not had any other significant changes to the existing design of the system. We have shifted our focus entirely to the design report for next week, which is our main deliverable.