Author: Katie Robinson

Anteater Racing ScaleFunder Update: 0 to 60% in one week!

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How fast can you go zero to sixty? UCI’s FSAE Racecar “Mantis” can do it in under 3 seconds!

Because of your overwhelming support, we have reached 60% of our fundraising goal in just 1 week! We’re still reaching for an overall goal of $5,000. On behalf of the entire program, we want to thank you so much for your contribution.

 

Our teams are hard at work preparing the vehicles for competition. Check out our Baja SAE Vehicle “Bandit”!

Over the course of the past 3.5 months the team has collectively logged over 3,300 hours into the project.  We do this because we value the challenge that the BAJA SAE vehicle presents to us.  As time progresses the team continues to triumph over challenges and make forward progress.

This past week, the powertrain team completed the design one of our powertrain guards, the CVT Guard.  We use what is referred to as a Constantly Variable Transmission in our vehicle to maintain the peak power output of our engine at all times. All rotating components are required to be shielded to prevent hands to enter the system as well as to contain all of the components in case of catastrophic failure.

We look forward to competing in Gorman, California, April 27-30!!!

Mantis Week 6 Update

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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

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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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