Track Improvement Update

This week, our team agreed to simply expand on tentative ideas for improving the current track given to us. We spoke with other teams about the bogie and they said that the contact points for the bogie to the track will be the same so that we know there will be no changes needed to the track with respect to bogie. We also agreed with solar team and bogie team that the track will not dip down because we need to focus on creating a working model before making it more complicated. Looking at the current track, the bends are off such that the bogie cannot follow the track autonomously, if at all. There are also different elevations from the floor that were not accounted for so the tracks are not leveled. Some parts of the guide way are more narrow while some are quite wide. Moreover, the curvatures for the track are weak and weakening since the piece relies on a single bolt on both ends. Lastly, the track is not repeatable because some of the stations are on the outside of the track making it asymmetrical. Below is our updated gantt chart with updated deadlines for Maker Fair and Paseo Prototyping.