- Mandatory Lab (4 hr.)
- Met with TA and Professor to discuss feedback from presentation
- Design Report (4 hr.)
- Completed the Introduction, Use-Case Requirements, Design Requirements
- Design Research and Self-Time (4 hr.)
- Modified CAD design for straightaway track and carrier prototype
- Worked on the speed-up coil
Schedule:
As of now, we are behind schedule. Again, we would have liked to have our track and carrier printed out, but since we are still waiting for the 3D printing filament, we are still bound to work with cardboard and try to improve our cardboard designs. I also would have liked to have finished at least one speed-uup coil, but I haven’t been able to either because the available copper wires in TechSpark were too thick to complete the 200 turns we wanted or the copper wire wasn’t conducted, meaning that the current couldn’t pass through the coil. This has caused further research to be done in order to find the exact copper wire that is both thin enough to complete the 200 turns, as well as conducted to allow for the current to run through the coil.
Next Week’s Schedule:
- Fully printed out carrier and track
- H-Bridge Circuitry w/ Speed-Up Coil