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  • Homecoming Game

    Posted on October 11th, 2010 CrazyTurtle No comments

    Here are a few pics from the homecoming football game this past Saturday. =)



  • 9/17/2010 Meeting Notes

    Posted on September 19th, 2010 Dustin Sanders No comments

    Very 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) MK3
    Wei Wu, Scott P
    Test/Research BQ78PL114 TI chip usage
    Research the BQ76PL536
    Test with single batteries
    Driver Support
    Amy, ???
    www.gumstix.net
    Create Build enviroment
    Test writing rom to flash
    Create “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 Matrix
    Most cells, in full panels, maximize 3m2
    Make Cell Test Box

    Mechanical:

    Battery Pack Covers
    >Mike, Andy
    Impact Analysis, Solar Array Attachment Design
    >Mike, Chico
    New 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 cockpit
    Design Solar Panel Array Supports and Frame
    Learn how motor attaches to wheel

  • JESC Meeting/Other Updates

    Posted on September 9th, 2010 Dustin Sanders No comments

    JESC 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!

  • PayPal Donations

    Posted on September 6th, 2010 Dustin Sanders No comments

    FYI, 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.

  • Adopt-A-Cell Form

    Posted on August 31st, 2010 Dustin Sanders No comments

    Hey 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 trailer

    Each tier gets the previous tier’s perk.  Please pass the word

    Adopt-a-cell Form