10/25 Meeting

These two meetings have been fairly short not too much advancement has been made. However, the cabin project is still going as planned. The 10/25 meeting was spent listening to half and full scale team second presentations on their progress so far. Once presentations were over, we brought in the finished print of our Prototype 1 design and let the other 1/12 scale teams examine it. Unfortunately the bogey and controls team did not have their parts in and could not give us dimensions to allow us to begin Prototype 2. On the bright side it did those teams an idea on how they plan to orient their parts within the cabin. The following picture displays the finished Prototype 1:

10/18 Meeting

This meeting was spent having all 1/12 scale teams. This presentation covered topics mentioned in the previous blog post. In summary this presentation provided the CAD model of Prototype 1. Prototype 1 was meant to serve as a place holder with dimensions larger than needed to let the 1/12 scale teams room to figure out how they want to configure the internal parts of the cabin. Then more accurate dimensions will be made for prototype 2. Prototype 2 will incorporate alternatives covered in the presentation. Before printing is made, the better of the two alternative models for prototype 2 will chosen based on aerodynamic analysis in solidworks.

Future steps are covered in the Gantt chart and timely progression of it is dependent on the fellow 1/12th scale teams to get their parts fitted in the cabin and a 3D printing source. Contingency plans include estimating dimensions, finding new 3D printing sources, and helping 1/12 scale teams if needed.

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10/11 Meeting

This meeting was fairly short as an hour+ meeting was held in engineering building regarding final group project reports. Once at the Superway garage, reminders and rubric for presentation 2 was given out. Project progress along with the following topics are to be covered:

1. Project and Problem Introduction
2. Initial Designs / Comparisons of Alternatives
3. Theoretical Analysis
4. Project Schedule and Deliverables
5. Dependencies and Contingencies

The finished presentation and its information will be discussed and posted by 10/18th. The rest of this meeting period was spent on topics to be covered on the presentation, further CAD modeling, and 3D printing options.

10/4 Meeting

For this week the cabin design team was able to get the first CAD model finished. Plans have been changed as regards to the first prototype model. The first model will be first be a general test prototype mostly to help the other 1/12 scale bogie and controls teams figure out how they want layout their internal components. It'll make it easier to design as it will save time on 3D modeling once precise measurements are met. Once function is complete, the cabin's aesthetics will be worked on the 2nd or 3rd prototype and eventually the final design.

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