Jack's Blog for Spartan Superway

As we met up at the Spartan Superway workshop, the subteams presented their lightening talk to get the overall process of each Full, Half and Small Scale teams and the direction they were planning to take in order to get ready for Maker Faire. For our lightening talk, we talked about what our next steps were in proceeding with implementing our final design. We talked about how we were going to use a BLDC-108 motor and a KEB48201X motor controller for our controls system. Additionally, we talked about how we were going to organize our system by using zip ties and printed circuit boards. Lastly we explained to the rest of the teams that we plan on creating a case for our wireless controller. Posted below is our lightning talk presentation.

In our first week of the spring semester, we met at the Spartan Superway workshop. For our first meeting, Dr. Furman explained how we would be have a lightening talk presentation the following about our current progress in implementing our final design. From the previous semester, Cheuk and I decided on integrating a ultrasonic sensor, a kill switch, and an wireless joystick. After getting feedback from Dr. Furman and Eric, we have decided to create a separate mechanism for the kill switch instead of having it on the joystick. Additionally, we have decided to buy a case for the wireless joystick. This idea is beneficial because it will allow the wires to be protected from being pulled out. Now that we were able to develop a successful rapid prototype, our task was to find the full scale parts online at an affordable price.