Spartan Superway

Today was a presentation day for Spartan Superway.  Our presentation talked about our plan to fill the empty space in the middle of the track by adding a T-Junction with a docking station in the middle.  At the docking station, charging of the bogey's would happen.  We also discussed issues with the track bender and recieved valuable feedback on how we could improve both the track bender and the track itself. We also found information about how we could potentially sand cast or injection mold our brackets holding two pieces of the track together.

This week the small scale track worked closely with the small scale controls and bogey teams to finalize our design goals.  We plan to have a central docking station with the ability to charge the bogey's.  The controls team are considering both wireless inductive charging and physical (connected) charging.  We plan to support either design decision that they pursue.  We took many pictures to showcase in our presentation for next week, specifically design flaws in the current model that we plan to improve.  We also plan to have 12% grade in our track (bogey design permitting). Additionally, each 3D printed bracket will be replaced with new brackets (that may be injection molded).

This week, we worked with our team coach, Kevin Brasil. We went over the project history and where he recommends that we take the project. We set up a slack for all of the small scale teams to communicate with each other. We have a much better idea of our goals going forward.