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Homecoming Game
Posted on October 11th, 2010 No commentsHere are a few pics from the homecoming football game this past Saturday. =)
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9/17/2010 Meeting Notes
Posted on September 19th, 2010 No commentsVery productive meeting last Friday. Went over the projects that needed to get started ASAP.
Projects are:
FUNdraising:
- JESC
- Update Powerpoint
- Update Written proposal
- Update Budgets. Need a separate Tool Budget
- Tool budget is communal for all school teams
- WE want a new TIG welder with that budget
- IEEE
- Oct 1st meeting
- Make short presentation
- Written proposal mostly done
- Parade
- Research all available parades that we could walk in
- Find Companies to offer our advertising services to
- Make Offers to wear shirts, wear signs, and paint side of car
Electrical:
Battery Protection (BPS) MK3Wei Wu, Scott PTest/Research BQ78PL114 TI chip usageResearch the BQ76PL536Test with single batteriesDriver Support
Amy, ???www.gumstix.netCreate Build enviromentTest writing rom to flashCreate “Hello World” Program (CMD|GUI)Battery Pack
Keith, ???
Make battery matrix
Closest weight with most batteries (22kg)
over 100V Nominal Voltage
Solar Panel Research
Jake, Kevin
Create Solar Cell MatrixMost cells, in full panels, maximize 3m2
Make Cell Test BoxMechanical:
Battery Pack Covers>Mike, Andy
Impact Analysis, Solar Array Attachment Design
>Mike, ChicoNew Car Frame Dimensions, Tire Analysis, and Suspension Research
>Mikes Senior Design Group–Mike really needs to talk to somebody about the new motor/wheel configuration
Old Car hatch locking mechanism>Mike is almost done
Take/Make dimensions of new car cockpitDesign Solar Panel Array Supports and FrameLearn how motor attaches to wheel
- JESC
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JESC Meeting/Other Updates
Posted on September 9th, 2010 No commentsJESC Meeting
Mike and I went to the first JESC (Joint Student Engineering Council) of the semester. They talked about when the power point presentation is due, who is doing cheap lunch and to talk about the Welcome back BBQ.
Nobi Emmanuel Funding Proposals:
The Date with Nobi is not set just yet (they think its Mid-October), however the 3 slides required are due October 1st, these slides need to contain:- Team Information
- Competition Overview
- Budget
We should try to include why its good for the school.
The Written Proposal will consist of:
- Mission Statement
- Team Overview
- Competition Overview (WSC and ASC races)
- Team Goals
- Timeline (Mike has ours, we need to make it pretty and colorful)
- 2010-2011 Budget (Detailed and included Requested Support line, no idea what that menas)
We have 3 weeks to accomplish this, shouldn’t take long since we already have the proposal and slides from last year, all we have to do is update it slightly.
Other updates
I got an email from M2S Tech who has offered his companies affiliates to help, they offer a bunch of great stuff, take a look at their site when you get a chance.
Contacted Emcore about solar cell sponsorship, put everything in motion, hopefully we’ll get some nice cells donated to us.
Also Contacted Dow Kokam, a battery manufacturer about sponsorship for batteries for the new car.
We have also raised 420 dollar already from the Adopt-A-Cell program put into place last week, WOW! Head over to the Solar Cell Adoptee page to check out who they were.
That’s it for now, See everyone at the meeting tomorrow!
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PayPal Donations
Posted on September 6th, 2010 No commentsFYI, the paypal donation button on the right isn’t working at the moment. I’m working on resolving the issues paypal is having. Hopefully this will be working within a few days.
UPDATE: PayPal has been fixed. Donation link is now working. Thanks for your patience.
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Adopt-A-Cell Form
Posted on August 31st, 2010 No commentsHey Team, I have put together a form for the adopt-a-cell program. Feel free to give this to businesses, family members and friends you know. Depending on how many they adopt they get different perks.
1: Certificate and Name on the site
5: Team T-shirt
10: Name on the side of our trailerEach tier gets the previous tier’s perk. Please pass the word






