9: Tuesday, April 15

Before and in class today, we furthered our design for our car chassis. On Fusion, we started designing our Ackermann steering, which is pictured below. Next class, we will continue making further modifications to the design by revising our steering as well as adding our functions for the back of the car (such as the differential, drive shaft, and motor). 

Also, we got our wheels! The hexagonal configuration on the inside of the wheel has a diameter of 12 mm, so we will further our car design on Fusion by adding our drive shaft to match the composition of our wheels. 

Further, we explored how our differential works, where both sides spin as a sum of the largest gear, but when one side is not spinning, the other still can spin; therefore, the two sides both work independently from each other and dependently on the larger guiding gear. 

Lastly, in class today, we worked on constructing the mechanical features of our motor. We spent time connecting the SoloGood 20A Dshot Opto ESC to our 7.4 V battery. We also changed the motor gear from the bent / broken one to a fully functional and fixed shape.