12: Thursday, April 24
- Apr 25, 2025
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Updated: May 8, 2025
Today, we finished printing the motor mount and started printing the steering arm. After consulting with Ms. Selan and incorporating our own revisions, we updated our Fusion chassis design to model it as closely as possible to an F1 car. We will continue making changes to the chassis, and we hope to print it over the weekend. Note that some changes we would have liked to make were not possible given design constraints.
For the updates, we condensed the design to reduce the material used in the 3D print. Specifically, we figured out what we needed to do to print the body in a timely and material-aware manner, that is squeeze the frame. Additionally, we decided to break up the chassis into several separate files, such as creating the rear wing as a distinct component.
Lastly, we worked on our KiCad, which is now practically complete. Next class, we hope to print out the chassis and get started on printing KiCad with Voltera.
Interesting! Have you considered doing a weight test after printing out your car so that your car doesn't have too much revolution but not enough weight to hold the car down?
Cool update! How did you decide how much to squeeze the frame without messing up the design?
One suggestion moving forward would be to double-check the mounting points and clearances now that you’ve condensed the frame and broken up the chassis into separate parts.
That looks great! What does squeezing the frame entail?