This week we mixed things up a bit. Due to the Thanksgiving Break that began today and the Tuesday Night game against Ball State, we decided to hold our build session on Monday night. This caused quite a few schedule issues and only a handful of members were able to come out and help. We focused on finishing up the cells and even though we were short handed, the job got done. We also spent some time thinking about how we are going to set up the lab in the coming weeks in order to make the job of fabricating the body easier on all of us. Happy Thanksgiving!!!
Bronco Pride,
Joshua
November 23, 2009
November 18, 2009
Getting Ready
A small side note that we forgot to mention in the last post. On Friday, Nov. 13th, the solar car team open the doors to the lab for tours by prospective Broncos. Nick led the discussions that briefly informed visitors about our purpose as an organization and helped to explain the 2005 car's capabilities. We would like to thank all visitors for coming and visiting us and we hope to see you next year!
This week we continued to prepare the lab for the mold-making process. Nick and Tim led a few members in the task of hanging plastic sheets from the tent that we set up a few weeks ago. Alex was working on an electrical component of the 2008 car that will be used again this year. This component will soon be placed into an electrical systems mock up of the 2010 car for testing prior to its actual installation on the currently non-existent vehicle. Abe, myself, and a few other members continued the delicate process of reclaiming solar modules for use on this year's car. We are about 1/3 of the way through cleaning, trimming, and sorting the panels and hope to finish soon so the panels can be tested and prepared for mounting on the new car.
Bronco Pride,
Joshua
This week we continued to prepare the lab for the mold-making process. Nick and Tim led a few members in the task of hanging plastic sheets from the tent that we set up a few weeks ago. Alex was working on an electrical component of the 2008 car that will be used again this year. This component will soon be placed into an electrical systems mock up of the 2010 car for testing prior to its actual installation on the currently non-existent vehicle. Abe, myself, and a few other members continued the delicate process of reclaiming solar modules for use on this year's car. We are about 1/3 of the way through cleaning, trimming, and sorting the panels and hope to finish soon so the panels can be tested and prepared for mounting on the new car.
Bronco Pride,
Joshua
November 16, 2009
Kalamazoo Holiday Parade
The Sunseeker Solar Race Car Team participated in the 2009 Kalamazoo Holiday Parade on November 14th. The team has been apart of the parade for many years now and is one of their favorite events to go to. This year they took the 2005 car and put on holiday lights and garland to be in the holiday spirit. The team had 13 members come out to talk about the car, drive in the parade and pass out candy. This is one of the many events that Sunseeker will do with the community. One of our goals as a project to go out and teach people about what technologies that we use in the car. We try inspire middle and high school students to pursue a career in mathematics based fields.
Bronco Pride,
Nicholas
Bronco Pride,
Nicholas
November 10, 2009
The First of Many to Come
This is the first post of the 2010 Sunseeker Solar Race Car Team. We plan on posting a new entry every "Western" Wednesday after our main team meetings. This will not be limited to that though. Build sessions, events and other major milestones will be posted also. Not only is this blog to let you read and see the progress of the but to you about the process too.
Lets start with lasts weeks meeting, 11/03. There was a major milestone in the progress of the car. We sent out the body design to Van's Pattern and in few weeks will start to see the car come to life. In preparation for the mold coming to us we rearranged the lab. We have brought in the tent in order to keep the lab from getting to terribly dirty. The lab looks great and thanks to everyone who helped. I have received nothing but good responses from the people that I have talked to.
On to tonight, Tim gave a short speech on how we will continue the mold making process. You can see Tim talking with part of the 2008 array in his hand below. Josh continued to disassemble the 2008 array (I will have post referring to that in the future). The team also decorated the 2005 Sunseeker with Christmas lights and garland for the parade. The annual Kalamazoo Holiday Parade is this Saturday and Sunseeker will be a part of it.
As you can tell I am very excited, not only for the car but for this years team. I hope that you can share in that excitement with us.
Bronco Pride,
Nicholas
Lets start with lasts weeks meeting, 11/03. There was a major milestone in the progress of the car. We sent out the body design to Van's Pattern and in few weeks will start to see the car come to life. In preparation for the mold coming to us we rearranged the lab. We have brought in the tent in order to keep the lab from getting to terribly dirty. The lab looks great and thanks to everyone who helped. I have received nothing but good responses from the people that I have talked to.
On to tonight, Tim gave a short speech on how we will continue the mold making process. You can see Tim talking with part of the 2008 array in his hand below. Josh continued to disassemble the 2008 array (I will have post referring to that in the future). The team also decorated the 2005 Sunseeker with Christmas lights and garland for the parade. The annual Kalamazoo Holiday Parade is this Saturday and Sunseeker will be a part of it.
As you can tell I am very excited, not only for the car but for this years team. I hope that you can share in that excitement with us.
Bronco Pride,
Nicholas
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