Week 6 Electronics Compartment

After the meeting today with Solar team, we decided to have a battery on the bogie instead of having cables from the charger controller. We decided to use 12V lead-acid batteries to power our control system. Thus, we need a small box for the Arduino and a battery mount on the bogie. I already have an idea of how is the mount going to look on the bogie. I am going to start some 3D drawings on Solidwork this week and find to best fit for our bogie.

Week 5 Presentation 1

We have presented our idea today. We gave everyone a quick update of our project and a brief idea of what we are going do next. I have included the slides on this blog. Enjoy!

Week 4 First round of Presentation 1

Today is the first round of Presentation 1. We have finished our slide for our presentation but we didn't have a chance to present today. Other teams have shown their progress and plan for this semester. I am excited to see the final product of every team. It will look great after we combine our prototype together and show it during Maker Faire.

Week 3 Preparation for the first presentation

Since next week is our first presentation, we have started the powerpoint slides. We have finalized our bill of materials since we only need to purchase the motor and motor controller. We have included the rapid prototype of our control system in our slide to give the class an idea of how our system works. Here are the schematics of the control unit and motherboard unit.