Week 4

During this week, the design and calculation process has continue as we enter the first presentation of the week. The presentation is of upmost importance as it will communicate and give important info to the rest of the sub-teams and will enable us to continue working and communicating in such a way which will enable good team work. My role this week was to finalize the kinematic calculations  for the steering. Once the calculations were done, I began to implement all formulas obtained into an excel sheet which will iterate all calculations in a simple manner. This will save time which can be used for testing or the designing of other components. The excel sheet is ready to used and it relies a great amount of freedom to the position of the motors used. Also, ideas for the failsafe system were discussed, but we will implemented as soon as the rest of our design is finalized. Such thing is necessary as the fail safe system is more lenient in comparison to other components thus the shape and its placement can be determined once most of the components are finalized. Finally, during this week I attended the Paseo Public Prototyping Challenged located at the Hammer Theatre on Wednesday September 21. The event was conducted by various professors and professionals which encouraged students at SJSU to make a difference and enter the challenge to better our city. Inventions and ideas can be entered in the contest and will get funding to make them a realization. The topics are based in problems experienced in san jose, thus solutions to those problems are necessary. Below, a picture is illustrated of myself in attendance to the event.