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Small Scale Track - Tyler - September 19

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).

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