BANDIT Thanksgiving UPDATE

 

img1411359318What is the team BANDIT thankful for this week you ask?

Chassis is fully assembled.

Front Suspension components including the upper and lower a-arms are tacked up and ready to be mounted to the car.

Rear Suspension team’s trailing arms are currently being cut out by Aqua Tech Waterjet, and we hope to have them jigged up by the end of the week.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Mantis Week 6 Update

This past Sunday our team decided to host a track day at the 16-H parking lot next to the Ayala Library. Our main objectives for this track day was to teach as many potential drivers how to safely and properly drive our current car, while also testing our new lap time recording device. This device was handmade by our team member, Vu lee, who of which used many simple electrical components that UCI has acquainted us with over the years. The track day was an overall success, and was great for team bonding. Our objective for this coming week is to start manufacturing on our Chassis by Friday, so that we keep up with our fast-moving deadlines.

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Thor Week 6 Update

For this week, we are still focusing on electrical system design as suggested by the professor. I have been working on the battery box sub-team. For those that who do not know, the battery box is where we are going to keep the high and low voltage system within the racecar. The battery box must meet many requirements, such as withstanding 40g from all directions and certain insulation and minimum steel thickness. Pretty much they want to make sure that if the racecar gets into a crash or something crazy, that the batteries will not be thrown out or combust or kill the driver. I personally have been working on designing brackets that will allow us to mount the battery box to the chassis (actual mounting locations still undecided until we design the chassis). Designing the brackets may seems simple, but we must take into consideration many details and double check that it will satisfy the rule requirements. For this design process, we use the SolidWorks CAD program. We first build the CAD model and then we can run simulations to see if it will be able to withstand the requirements.

-Maritza Anaya

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