Wednesday, January 10th, 2018 – Class 01
Total # of Members Present: River Carpenter, Simon Crowell, Mike Hubert, and Walid Abu-Raad
Major Topics Discussed:
- Angle of slope of hills affects speed?
- Who will do what?
- Servo use?
Notes:
We discussed anything in particular that would want to do with our AEV project that is possibly extra or would be beneficial for our use. River brought up that he thought we should use the servo for it power braking abilities. The rest of the lab agreed to its use, as long as we can ensure that can program it and know how to use it. Simon opted himself as the AEV’s programmer, since he said that programming is his thing. We agreed to this, but will still be overseeing or helping if the opportunity presents itself. Mike liked the idea of messing with the website, and we decided that it was perfect fit for him. River also brought up concern about the angled hills on the track that the AEV will be running. We discussed whether or not we need to adjust the speed of the AEV in accordance with the gradient of the hill since there will be a larger force of gravity acting against the direction of the moving AEV. If the AEV is going fast enough, however, then we will not need to adjust for hill, we will just let it slow down. We decided that we will have to see how strong the motors are before we decide exactly what to do with that idea. No future plans were discussed until the next lab session. We would like to see what comes next so we know exactly what next to mess with.
Sunday, February 5th, 2018
Total # of Members Present: Walid Abu-Raad, Max Hubert, Simon Carpenter, and Simon Crowell
Location: Enarson Learning Center 226
- Divided and conquered tasks for creating progress report 1
- River is in charge of our forward looking summary as well as team goals in the future
- Simon will be in charge of the appendix and glossary
- Max will handle the organization of our meeting notes as well as the analysis portion of our backward looking statement
- Walid will take care of compiling the report and the rest of the backward looking statement
- Further discussion on how the auto break component of the journey will be implemented was brainstormed
- Website update 2 was organized
- All website deliverables were checked for upload and reviewed
Monday February 12, 2018
Team meeting notes 2/12/18 Time: 520 PM
Location: Enarson 246
- Organized Tasks for Grant Proposal meeting
- Previously completed Solidworks prototype part was reviewed
- River will cover aspects of prototype
- Max will introduce the group
- Brainstorming Ideas for AR&D
- Increase AEV speed on incline
- Gear to gear, rubber band unreliable
- Aerodynamic going both directions
- Adjust speed for weight
- Use servo to deploy automatic break
Monday, March 5th, 2018
Location: Enarson 246
- Split up Progress Report 2
- Decided to share it via Google Docs
- Discussed topics for Class 16 presentation
- Reassessed the formatting of the Progress Report
- Who will submit the Google Doc
- Who will create the Google Doc