by Jonathan O'Grady | Jul 9, 2019 | Journal
Today the car’s first-panel tilt test, and, much to our excitement, the solar panel supports only needed slight changes. However, the Solar panel charging supports were supporting too much weight, so we needed to make two more. After lunch, we split into teams....
by Jonathan O'Grady | Jul 8, 2019 | Journal
The car and Landry’s telemetry system are now finished, so today, we started on the self-scrutineering process. We are happy to report that the car passed the braking, slalom (the action of weaving between cones), and turn radius tests. The car also passed a majority...
by Jonathan O'Grady | Jul 6, 2019 | Journal
The repairs to the car and the car itself are finished! Today, Mr. Roseberry, Jaxson, Jacob, Noah, and I finished the bodywork for the car and got it ready for Monday’s self-scrutineering. While Landry and Mr.Livingston worked on all the bugs of the telemetry...
by Jonathan O'Grady | Jul 1, 2019 | Journal
There are only 10 days left, and we are ready to rumble. Today, Jaxson and Jacob started wrapping the car in shrink wrap and will start using the heat guns tomorrow to start shrinking it. Meanwhile, Landry spent the day installing a new motor current sensor. That will...
by Jonathan O'Grady | Jun 26, 2019 | Journal
If you didn’t see yesterdays post about how we crashed the solar car you can find it here. We had a surprise visit from Mr.Williams and Mr.Hudson (director of CTE programs at Wylie ISD), who came to check in on us and to offer encouragement. I was very glad to...
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