16: Tuesday, May 6

Class today was incredibly productive as we made serious headway on our project. First, we retrieved our printed chassis and started assembling our design. Our Ackermann steering was screwed in. We also screwed in and glued our printed rear wing. Since our chassis 3D print did not succeed fully, we found a different way to build the walls of our chassis that will hold the circuit board and other mechanical components inside the chassis. We cut up specifically measured pieces of wood that would satisfy what we were looking for in our wall. This succeeded very well and we glued those two wood pieces onto the chassis with epoxy. This works because the two walls are just there to hold the circuit board in place, which is very light. In class, we also started our Voltera circuit printing. After class today, we came back to GCAD to monitor and further our Voltera print. The front side of the Voltera is done! Overall, today was very successful and we are excited to continue our assembly for the next class. But because of time constraints from failed prints, we have to change our project goal to only make one car. But we are still very excited to play around with it!

What our car currently looks like and the first half of our circuit board