Ben Wirz
Robotics and Engineering Student, and Aviation Enthusiast
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Senior Week 10
This week I kept working on the Brackets for the linear actuator, which hasn’t really had any setbacks. Unfortunatly parallel to that when we were adding the box for the control board on the working golfcart, something that I had a softmore whip up, the capacitors on the board exploded quite spectacularly. This was mainly because the power was plugged in backwards, which wasn’t without reason but with most of the reason being that I’m stupid.
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Senior Week 9
This week we truely got started on the braking on the golf cart. We started off the week getting some numbers on the braking force. This was quite entertaining as it basically entailed us driving the golf cart and slamming on the brake as hard as we can, while there is a bathroom scale on the pedal. From this I gathered that I would really prioritize speed of the actuator over force.
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Senior Week 8
This week was a very good week. I finished up the mechanical assembly for the steering control, aswell as making good progresson tidying up the working golfcarts other retrofits. This chain length was unfotunatly right in the middle of a link, which means I had to go and get a half link from metal fab. Now it works perfectly Another major issue with the golfcart was the fact that there was exposed high voltage, and wires running through the passenger compartment.
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