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 obtained all of the rails to be bent and started into the full swing of manufacturing our new curved sections. We have found out how to consistently get bends in our rails using a step by step process. We are following last years advice and having only one person (me) manufacture the rails so that there is not measurement bias or manufacturing differences between users of the track bender. We have begun receiving 3D printer samples from makerspace and found out that they are having great difficulties in getting us our orders, so we will need to revisit this.
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