February 05, 2019
These pictures are of the original prototyped AEV that the team built together. This design was extremely poor in the placement of the arduino and the weight of the overall design was too heavy to run on the track therefore the team had to come up with new designs to create a new and more efficient AEV.
Above are the designs by each team member and the final design of all of them combined to make the AEV that them team will use as their final form of the AEV.
February 27, 2019
With the testing of the first methodology, the team learned that the arm that was previously used with the prototype was not going to efficiently hold the weight of the AEV on the tracks so the team together decided to switch the arm from one that was more narrow to one that was a little bigger, more accurately held up the AEV’s base and that better helped distribute the weight throughout the arm.
March 24, 2019
This is the final design of the AEV. It can be seen that we switched back the arm from the T-shaped arm to the L-shaped one because we switched the arduino to the other side of the AEV making it more towards the propellers. This way for all future tests, the arduino is not in contact with a magnet from the caboose it will be picking up on the track.
April 09, 2019
The final design of the AEV was changed a little bit to make the connection for the caboose a bit wider. The team took 3 #55A Slotted Strip, 2″ and made a rectangle of them on the front of the AEV so that the caboose could not miss the connection.