Wrap up of week 10/17

This week we began to seriously improve our welding skills and the results are very apparent. The pictures below show that our beads are now more defined and there is less excess beads as well as less debris. Learning to set up the machine is important to a good weld. We also began working on a rear battery mount for the older SKII solar car. 

Goals of Week 10/13

This week our goals are pretty achievable. We are working to make enough cleaned and prepared metal to begin practicing our welding and grinding as a class. We are cutting up the birdcage and taking off all the rust and paint using the wire wheels. There are two different shapes of metal we are using... Rods and flat metal.

• Cut up metal into small pieces
• Clean metal off for welding
• Start welding together. 
  
  
  
  

Wrap up, Week 10 (10/10)

This week, we've had a few speed bumps, popped a few circuits as well as a lack of raw metal, We were able to recover from them and we found an old bird cage donated by Mr. Junco of Horticulture
and we were able to get a decent bit of practice done with the welding. We also attempted to weld aluminium but had no avail.

Goals of the Week 10/6

This week will begin practicing our metal working ability, We will spool the Mig Welder and begin doing practice welds. We will also be searching for raw metal to continue to practice.

• Set up Mig Welder
• Find and locate all scrap/raw metal
• Begin Practice!

Wrap Up on 10/3

This Week didn't go according to plans, but a lot did get done. This week was focused on thank you letters and packages which are well on there way but still not all done. As we get closer to completion we are getting more excited.

Unfortunately we did not:

• Set up a craigslist ad
• Email Boat Companies

On a better note, this week we completed:

• Bettering our proposal to send out to people; hopefully people that give money.
• Set up and Updated the Laser Printer for Prototyping
• Working on the little go kart
  
  
  

Welcome to the week of 9/29

This weekend ended on a strong note with a lovely boat ride aboard Paul's electric powered Duffy! This ride gave us a large amount of inspiration to continue working towards our goal and project of making a solar powered boat. We started out with a meeting and discussion in class geared towards the advancement of SK2, which, further expanded into working on the small electric go kart.

     Our Goals for this week are:

• Create a Craigslist Wanted Ad for the boat project
• Spruce up our proposal to give out to people
• Email pontoon boat companies about getting a boat
  
  
   

Wrap Up 9/26

We worked on the CNC mill, and got it up and running to a decent bit. unfortunately the programs we are running are somewhat corrupted and not moving the X-Axis on the mill when running the program. The mill makes some oddly shaped circles and ovals when run. Hopefully we can find the right G-Code to use on the mill so it can read our programming right. Direct input into the mill allows the X-Axis to work correctly.