Kaelan Song SPARTAN Superway Blog

This week and the weeks after will be focusing on obtaining printing sources for our final podcar design. Currently I am relying on a personal friend's workplace to print out podcars. Following our presentation that we delivered today, we consulted with Prof. Furman on ideas to improve positive latching designs for the door. The general consensus reached was that the bottom portion of the door needed some sort of way to latch on in order to alleviate stress on the upper hinge.

Following the end of previous semester and consultation with Paul bulet, we modified our design by implementing some techniques and concepts that he provided us with. This design ideally will fit the design language concepts (futuristic, cutting edge, etc) that he suggested we keep in mind. Final designs are currently in progress and hopefully will have another model within this month.

After delivering our somewhat mediocre presentation, Professor Furman had given us the opportunity to meet with Paul, someone who has had much more experience in developing cabin/podcar designs in Solidworks. Paul was able to give me insight on aspects such as "Design Language" and how to implement it when delivering a presentation. Presentations for our particular subproject are rather difficult to us as engineering majors as the major component of our work relies purely on aesthetics, with a few geometric and physical constraints added. This leads us to find factors that are not necessarily relevant to present on (or factors that are pretty negligible) just to make it seem like we're not sitting around doing jack shit. Paul was also able to teach me more about some features in solidworks, particularly establishing boundary surfaces which would enable me to develop much more complex shapes quickly.

Following the presentations given by the other teams, I continued to try and get ANSYS to work. In addition I worked on our team's presentation and am currently working to find a source to get more prototypes printed out.

This week my partner and I focused on creating our powerpoint presentation for the next class session. Additionally, I am coordinating with Professor Youseffi once more to have our second prototype made.

This week was a standard work week. I tried to implement new door concepts following input from others' past experiences on what did and did not work for them. I am hoping to get one more prototype out before the end of the semester.

Continuing the development of our 2nd prototypes in which we factor in aspects such as aesthetics and aerodynamics. Multiple models are being drafted in SolidWorks in order to gain input on aesthetic quality and to compare aerodynamic qualities.