Just added a few more photos, courtesy of our Drive Train Lead, Mark.

Here are the links to our posters. Feel free to comment below with questions!

Suspension

Drive Train

Body

Electrical

Just added a whole bunch of new photos, dating back all the way to the 2010 competition! Take a look under the Photo Galleries tab.

Thanks to all the Baja alumni who could make it! If you didn’t get a chance to stop by and drive the car around a little bit, I’m sure we’ll have another drive day in the Spring. You may even be able to drive in Parcel B… (stay tuned). Here are some pictures:

And here’s a video!

Alumni Drive Day

Mark Muraoka has been busy teaching the young Drive Train team about our current setup. The plan for this year is to make simple but effective improvements to last year’s system as well as to design an entirely new gearbox that will be built next year.

In order to get everyone acquainted with the drive train, it was completely disassembled, and students are currently focusing on instrumenting and tuning the CVT for optimal performance.

Thanks to all those who participated in our design review! Your questions and suggestions are always useful to us. If you have any remaining questions, feel free to contact me or comment below.

The design review will start today at 12:30 in AC 113. Lunch will be provided.

In case you are watching the live stream, here’s a link to the slides, which you can follow along independently:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/405298/PhoenixRacingDR1_21OCT2011.pptx

Hi Everyone,

We’ve been prepping for our design review this Friday and we’re excited to share our progress and our plans for this year. We’d love to get as many people as possible to attend, but in case you can’t here’s a link to the webcast:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/phoenix-racing

We’ll also post our slide deck to the website Friday before the presentation.

Hope you can make it!

-Johannes

Our team’s first design review will be in about two weeks (October 21). We will be focusing mostly on our project plan for this year, changes we’re making in how were running the team, and how were managing the design and fabrication process.

We would love for guests from outside of Olin to attend, but if you can’t make it, then we’ll be posting the slides here and setting up a webcast.

-Johannes

The team showed off the car to both new and old students in order to recruit new members a few days ago. We explained the subsystems of the car, how they were designed, and talked about competition.