week 25: bends complete and moving on

Kevin had completed all the corners for the track.
We are moving on to help the solar team with their ribs.
The measuring block for the ribs which are r=24" is completed.
The die is still yet to make because solar team is making tweaks on their design so we need update on that.

week 24: measuring block

The 19.67" measuring block is made for the 0.25" aluminum stocks. The purpose of making a measuring block is to measure the bent aluminum stocks and possibly hammer the aluminum against the block to reach the desired shape.

Good news: machine shop E123 is now open for longer hours 

M 3:00-5:00  PM

T  3:00-10:00 PM

W 3:00-5:00 PM

TH 3:00-10:00 PM

F 3:00-8:00 PM

week 23(spring 2017)

This is the first week of spring 2017. We are informed that we have around 2 months to finish the project and present at paseo public prototyping. with the tight amount of time given, we have to speed up and work harder.

My current responsibility is to create the measuring block for the 0.25" aluminum flat stocks while Kevin works on the die.

Later on we will help the solar team with their ribs when we are finished with the current work.

week 15: update and finals week

Update from team member Kevin that there is no need for us to manufacture the strip for positioning team.

No word were put in to the Spartan Superway due to the upcoming final exams.

week 14: Presentation

This week we focused fully on the final presentation and tried to meet every specification of the rubric.

presentation 3:

Week 13 final report and resentation

Thanks giving week, family gathering, and little progress on the bender.
This week we focused on generating the final presentation and the 1st draft of final report.

The report was fairly long and time consuming so extra work will be done after finishing the report.

Week 12 updates

Update to the bender,
What is created:

• 2 dies for 2 different radii
• metal arm for bending
• Bending table
• support block
• one measuring block
• roller/caster

They will be assembled to perform the bending. from the testing, every thing looks successful so far except the die for bending the 1/4 in aluminum bar needs to be refined so we don't have to band the flat stock several times to complete one curve.