2/22-3/1

This week was spent working on the first presentation for the Spring semester, and finishing up machining the gearbox housings that are in figure 1. Overall, good progress is being made. The bearing housings are going to be machined out this weekend, and then welding can begin.

2/14-2/21

During this week more parts are being machined, but we have yet to start welding anything together yet. We want to have all the part machined in order to tack weld everything together at once and make sure we aren't running into any tolerance issues. We still need to order the gears for the steering and all of the fasteners, but other than that we have everything we need. Overall, we are making good progress, and we just need to keep working on everything to make sure that we finish by May. I am worried about other team however, It doesn't seem like any of the sub-teams have started manufacturing their parts and it is getting late into the game.

Winter Break - 2/8

During winter break purchasing of materials and fabrication of parts began. All sheet metal parts were cut out on a water jet and were sandblasted in order to remove any rust on them, figure 1.

figure 1. Waterjet cut parts The housing for the gears for steering were machined out using a CNC mill, figure 2.

Figure 2. Gearbox housing All of the rod ends for that wheels are attached to were also machined on the manual mill, figure 3.

Fugre 3. Rod ends for wheels