Ben Wirz

Robotics and Engineering Student, and Aviation Enthusiast


Recent Posts

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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Senior Week 7



This week was all about fitting the Hub onto the Shaft which was completely achieved. I started by trying to file it down, which worked to an extent, but eventually it was just going way to slow. What I ended up doing is bringing the dremel outside and hogging off the rest of the material. This worked really well, and made it so that I was able to slide the thing most of the way over the splines, with some small amounts of bashing, and wedging with a screw driver.

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