week 3

This week we continued to work on identifying the issues of the previous tracks and see what part needs to be changed or improved. We also communicated with all the small scale teams and we created a group in Slack, which is a online communication App, for easier communication in the future. Everyone was cleared that by the end of the school year, we need 4 loops of track and have at least 5 bogie running simultaneously.

We identified the problem of the tracks with track improvement team and had a conclusion that the second loop needed to be rebuilt because it was poorly manufactured.

Kevin emailed Lilly, who is the administrator of the mechanical engineering department, to get access of room E123 which is the tech shop. Once we get access to E123, we will start getting hands on experience with bending aluminum and see what methods we can use to make each bent uniform.