Wednesday, February 22, 2017

2/22/2017 Blog #17

Hi,
this week our team worked out what we need to accomplish with the other subteams. We asked the positioning and controls team to give us a map of where they will be placing their magnets and corrugated metal strips along with its dimensions so that it would not collide with other teams' needs. We also obtained information of what the solar team needs from us (how much aluminum material and what they request of us from the support posts). AJ and Jez went to learn welding this week and did a few practice runs, it is more time-consuming and more difficult than expected. We also did some research on trying to FEA a % in-fill 3D printed part, but we have been fruitless with finding the properties of a certain % in-fill. We managed to fix the 3D printer this week, but the bed of the printer is not sticking and the z-axis is misaligned - we are doing our best to fix it, so we can resume manufacturing the U-brackets that we need.
In this coming week, we will be working on the presentation and everything the rubric asks of us. Also, we will continue welding and should have a proper design for the support that the Solar Team wants. Optimistically, the 3D printer issues will be resolved by this week as well.

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