Sunday, September 17, 2017

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

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