Meeting Notes From Friday 4/10

1. MEETING THIS FRIDAY, 4/17/09, 2PM at the cooling plant!!!! This week should be exciting, as we have decided to have play-time with some cardboard! We’re going to make a full scale Moch-Up of a body, just to see what it looks like.  Feel free to bring CD’s, I’m going to bring a CD-player so we can listen to some music while we work/play.
2. If the body Moch-Up goes well, maybe we can BUILD it (an actual body) using existing materials. What then?? We ADVERTISE!!!
   –Advertising brings FUNDING. Funding buys a new motor. With a new motor, we can RACE.
   –Advertising also brings new members! (Fall recruitment, etc.)
3. The NEW webpage is almost ready!!! Hoping to have it up and running, perhaps sometime this week. More to come…
4. The BATTERY PACK is a big undertaking. The microcontroller design will be started today (Tuesday). The design will be underway and partially or mostly finished by the end of semester. Hoping to have the new PACKS built and car re-wired by the end of summer.
5. Shawn Ryon will be bringing automotive SCALES (perhaps this Friday??) so we can get some preliminary Weight Measurements!!!
6. Jordan and Meghan are working on the Solar Panel test.  BEFORE FRIDAY, feel free to look at the 2008 RULES on the body. www.ee.siue.edu follow “faculty” to Dr. Muren’s homepage. –>click the link to his WORK page, and then on to the rules!! (also, wear clothes you don’t mind getting DIRTY.)