10/5-10/12

During this week, all sub-teams composing the half scale project decided to have a team meeting. In this meeting we essentially discussed and set a deadline for different issues. In accordance we shared our future plans and our future design changes. The changes and all design components are dependent of each other, therefore knowing exactly the route everyone is taking will ultimately make our work easier. The team decided in a deadline to acquire all the information and decide in what parts will be order. By doing so, we give ourselves plenty of time to test and prototype our systems. Our communication with one another is crucial as it will define our success in the project. In our specific team, we decided to assign tasks, thus it will be easier to accomplish our final design. We decided to change our steering system from a 2 motor controlled system to a 1 motor controlled in conjunction with a pulley system. By changing our steering design to only one motor, the chances of failure will be decreased and there is more change for two motors to fail in comparison to one motor. Essentially one member of our group will focus on designing the new steering pulley system, while he other person will continue the changes in the CAD design we currently possess. One important and crucial matter we came to accordance with the other sub-teams is to have weekly meetings thus improving our communication.