Nikolas Mifsud Spartan Superway

This week consisted mostly of finishing up other teams' presentations. This was due to cutting our time short to move the full and half scale tracks from campus to the new Superway location. Other than that, the water jet cutter was fortunately fixed this week and our sheet metal was cut. This means only cutting the tubing and welding the project together remains for our production. This puts our plans slightly behind schedule but should be entirely manageable.

This week, we gave our presentation 2 for the Spring semester. This presentation served mostly as an update to our design changes. We were intending to have started production of our parts by the time of the presentation. This did not happen do to a breakdown of the water jet cutter at Makers' Space. As of the time of writing, the water jet cutter will be repaired by 4/16/2019. This will allow us to cut our parts with only a slight delay to our original plans. The presentation is embedded below. Most of the changes made to the designs were either refining for maneuverability (resizing holes to inches rather than metric, for example). Other than these, there were some dimensions which had finally been provided to us from other teams to mount their systems to the bogies. As general updates, the motor team has found that their motors can move in reverse, meaning there will be more space on the slave bogie for other teams' components.

This week consisted mostly of playing the waiting game. Our designs are finished and now include the sizing of the last components we needed from other teams. Myself and my teammate, Brandon Tarter, will be going to SJSU Makers' Space on Tuesday April 9th to get trained and cleared to use the waterjet and make our parts. Hopefully, we will be able to make our cuts on the same day. It was recently discovered that the motors purchased by the Motor Team are unidirectional, meaning the current design for Maker Faire will not be able to operate and return to it's starting position autonomously. To rectify this, Motor Team, with our help, will be reinstalling the old motor to the slave bogie for reverse drive only. This complicates the project for everyone involved, but we feel this the least disruptive way to solve the issue.