Monday, November 16, 2009

20th Full(ish) Meeting

Nov.  10 & 12


Fire drill? Electrical short?

FEM and mesh done.
First draft of the report due Tuesday.


Two-part foam kind of cheap, still look for a free sample to test.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Saturday, October 31, 2009

15th & 16th Meeting

 For Oct. 27 & 29:

Attempted to run a load/stress simulation using Solidworks 2009.

Meeting to finish prototype was scheduled for Oct. 31.

Presentation was outlined.

  1. What is a Mini-Baja?
  2. What are the major components we must deal with?
  3. What is the competition about?
  4. What have research and and past designs revealed?
  5. What were our inital concepts?
  6. Why did we chose our current designs?
  7. Gantt Chart showing our production goals?

Thursday, October 22, 2009

14 Ful(ish) Meeting

Did two more pieces of model, we need more PVC pipe.

More talk about design.

13th Full(ish) Meeting

For October 20 2009:

-Watched Brian and Roi  continue to work on the model. Very impressive.
-Some inspector dude came around?

Friday, October 16, 2009

12th Full(ish) Meeting

For October 15 2009:
-Moved the old car into shop.
-Discussed more possible designs.


I'm using Visio 2007 to make the Gantt Chart.

If you have Visio you can go under scheduling >> Gantt Chart





If not you can use Gantt Project at http://www.ganttproject.biz/

Or OpenProj at http://openproj.org/openproj