Anteater Racing Zotfunder Website is Up and Running!

 

Hello Anteater Racing Fans! As the years go on our FSAE, FSAE Electric, and SAE Baja become faster, lighter, and more efficient. This years vehicles are no exception; as we push towards engineering these cars to compete in the FSAE and SAE Baja competitions. These vehicles would not be possible without contributions from UC Irvine and our beloved Sponsors. Now, you have the chance to help push our project forward and aid us in engineering these Racecars! Anteater Racing has created a crowd funding site in order to help raise funds for our team. Donations of all sizes are appreciated and will help us create these works of engineering. Thank you for your contributions to our team!

https://zotfunder.give.uci.edu/project/3710

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’s Chassis Mock-Up Design

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Hello there, we are kicking this year out right so far. Instead of waiting until last minute, after all the parts have been manufactured, we started our wooden chassis mock-up this past week. The main goals of making a mock-up is to ensure that the design we created actually work out in the physical world and determine the best position of certain parts such as the accelerator pedal, brakes, and steering wheel. In the figures above, you can see several parts of our vehicle positioned in areas we believe is the best orientation for the drivers.

We salvaged most of the parts from our last year’s vehicle, Electra, to get the rough estimates. Expect the battery box, that we made out of cardboard from this year’s design. One of the main issues on Electra was the positioning and weight of the battery box. However, this year Thor will be a different story. We have changed the placement and combined the batteries into one section. We decided on this design because it adds another level of safety by not having our drivers jump over battery boxes and even lowering the weight significantly by not using as much material.

This year, I know we are more prepared because we are taking what we learned from Electra and putting it into every aspect of Thor. Thank you for your time and happy Thor’sday.

-Alanna Ho