9/27 Meeting

Last week all the 1/12th scale teams presented their presentations. After presenting our presentation we received very useful feedback we could or should implement in our design including:

• Look into government regulations of lifted transport design
• cooling slits for internal components
• Find ways for easy wire management (we thought of sticking a manual to the detachable door)
• Having compartments for individual parts
• Angel wing doors (inspired by the Tesla Model X)
• External Controls/Buttons

Once presentations were over individual 1/12 scale teams came back together and the remaining class period we spent working on individual projects. For right now my cabin design team are still getting the dimensions and beginning cad modeling of the cabin. Below is the expected design we're aiming for in CAD.

9/20 Meeting

For last week's meeting we spent most of the session listening to the full and half scale presentations on what they all been working on so far and what they plan on accomplishing over the course of the semester. My team along with the other 1/12 scale teams are presenting our presentation tomorrow (9/24). Leading up into tomorrow we planned on having our first draft of our 3-D drawing in CAD and receiving feedback from all the different teams. However we still have to get access to the program. But after tomorrow we hope to talk to the 1/12 scale teams to get their components sizes and figure out dimensions of our cabin designs.

Also, after looking at current podcars and other PRT like designs we have made more design updates and are shown in the presentation:

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Week 3

For our meeting that took place on 9/13, Kaelan and I met up with the other 1/12 cabin team members. Kaelan and I largely devoted this session to bring in our rough design ideas we gathered over the past week and decide on a design that would be fitting for a new cabin.

Here are my initial designs that i drafted before the session:



When I made these two mock-up designs, the key features I wanted to implement was a very see- through cabin, compact but comfortable, and aerodynamically/cost efficient. The reason for having a see through cabin was because someone suggested that having the Spartan Superway may be an eye-sore going above people's heads and may take some getting use to once implemented. So I chose something that won't create a big shadow in the sky, implementing large windows where most of the cabin that will cast any shadows will be its roof and rear. This also played into the decision of having it small and compact as a design for carrying 4 people at most will enough and won't take up so much air space. In regards to comfortably, we plan on looking at autonomous cars and already existing gondola designs as they are compact and already comfortable enough traveling at the speeds the superway is likely to be designed for. Aerodynamics and cost efficiency is for obvious energy and manufacturing saving reasons. Thus a compromise of a curved and "box-like" cabin was considered.


Our finished product we plan on making largely being inspired by the following photo as we feel it combines our goals fairly well:

For next session we plan to finish our Presentation 1 which includes our group's goals for the semester and what we have worked on so far. The following links is a Gant chart outlining our plans for the project and semester and our Presentation 1. I also plan on talking with Kaelan on our design then speaking with the other 1/12 teams to modify our design we hope will be finished by next session.


https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lljKmo7GT19Fcnl_6qbKSrrppkelSS9KynK04OuLIv4/edit#slide=id.g1ff885f6c4_0_134

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZEpvrPiVNBI1FJrmx06yx76baSCNH0k3EMl0QjIvvPs/edit#gid=0

Week 2

Last Wednesday was our meeting was mainly filled with listening to lightning presentations of the other Spartan Superway subgroups. The presentations largely covered each of the subgroups' obstacles and goals for the semester. Presentations were graded and suggestions for each project were given by Furman and Hagstrom.

Once my group presented we received very helpful feedback for our project. Some suggestions we found helpful was considering the size of the cabin, having transparent walls, the shape of the cabin not being an eye sore, etc. My group decided to have three mockup designs by next Wednesday and take the best from the ideas. Also, we'll talk to the other 1/12 design teams to see how feasible our design is.

Following is the presentation:
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First Meeting

On August 30th of last week, we had our first official meeting at the Spartan Superway complex. Here we got introduced to the project by BJ Furman and Eric Hagstrom and were shown around the complex and see how far the project has gone. As the class toured around, we were informed objectives and goals for this year. Currently the Superway has a 1/12, 1/2, full scale projects. After the tour, the rest of the class session was spent assorting us into groups and I was paired with Kaelan Song to work on the 1/12 scale cabin design that could possibly be implemented for the full scale model. We are the first group of this kind for this project so Kaelan and I will be laying the groundwork for future students that will work on the cabin design.

At this point, the cabin design is to be aesthetically pleasing and able to hold the battery and other electronic components in organized compartments.