Week 7

Hi everyone,

This week, most of the interns got lots of solo experience with different parts of the car. I worked almost entirely on making 5 gram to 50 gram (5g interval) brass weights to counter balance the continuously variable transmission. Making the weights took up a lot of time because they needed to be centered and lathed down so that the center of mass will sit correctly and the actually weight of the brass was hard to judge without remeasuring each weight every couple of lathe passes. This week, I couldn't make it to ASU this Saturday, and to compensate for the time not spent in the labs, I worked on more Solidworks tutorials (one of the best ones I found was learning how to use the design library to save parts for new projects) and have begun sketching out a 3D draft of the car for my model in the program. It has been a very slow and meticulous process, but I'm staring to get the hang of controlling the program and the little quirks of the tools. This draft was to basically experiment without a tutorial and get a feel for designing the chassis without exact numbers for the time being. Once this draft is completed, I will probably need to either redefine all lengths and values on this model or I will start from scratch with a new one (though making the second model will be easier and faster than the first one was).

  



 

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