Ted’s Status Report for 02/21/2026

This week, I kept working on the physical design of the rail and helped develop our design presentation, as well as any final major design decisions we planned on using. I’m still waiting to meet with Dr. Dueck and the students we’ll be collaborating with on Wednesday, so I can finalize the dimensions for whatever studio we plan on testing with. We are still on schedule, only thing is that we are slightly delaying our ordering schedule so that we can first meet with Professor Qing Li and Dueck to ensure that our design is satisfactory. As we are going to be waiting a little longer to order parts, but it shouldn’t affect our team operations too much, as we are working on other aspects of the design, like my CAD model, in parallel to any plans we had for development with physical parts. I’m beginning to finalize power calculations, as well as determine what type of motor reductions we might need to include to ensure the motors don’t burn out after 3-4 hours of continuous use.  In the next week, I hope to get feedback from our collaborators and advising professors/TAs to adjust CAD designs accordingly, as well as finalizing component orders so we can begin physical implementation.