Continued Progress on Rapid Prototype

The Wayside Power and Distribution Team continues its progress in building a rapid prototype. This past week, on November 6th, the team presented at the Pod Car City Conference to various parties from universities and companies interested in pod car development. The conference was relatively successful and enabled teams and companies to spread their ideas and development progress.

At the team's current state we are set to gather materials and begin work on the rapid prototype once the team completes a bill of materials and gets approval from Professor Furman to purchase needed materials. Additionally the team updated some of the CAD items for the rapid prototype to a more realistic visual of what the rapid prototype will look like when completed.

Figure 1: Rapid prototype CAD with a half third rail setup.

Recently the team had some difficulty and disagreements upon whether the rapid prototype should be completed in conjunction with the Bill's and Ron's half scale project. However the team has decided to steer away from additional dependence on other teams to reach the appropriate completion date. 

Figure 2: Shoe mechanism rapid prototype design.

Written by:
Alex Ng