Slow progress

SK2
This week has seen almost no progress with SK2 as we have lost one of our lead members working on SK2. And furthermore our welder is working on SK2 and will not finish the 2 welds needed to mount the 8th and final bracket.

Solar kart

Solar Kart
Progress is picking up for the solar go kart, acceleration pedal has been installed, all wires have been hooked up and tested and to top it of the kart was painted gold.

SK2

Meanwhile SK2 has seen slow progress but this week we plan on completing and installing the battery mounts as we have decided to weld the brackets on to the mount

Lego car

I was able to complete the lego man successfully and have gone on to start working on the lego car.  I have become good at mating and it is time to move on to the next step.  Mr. Martin taught me the basics on making drawings on Solidworks and now I must practice making drawings for parts.  Mr. Martin and I also decided that I should split my time between Solidworks and my senior project.  Learning solidworks is fine, but I need to move ahead on my project since I have not made much progress so far.

Assembling the lego car

Instructions for assembling the lego car.

Lego man

This week I will be practing my mating skills on Solidworks.  I will be trying the part assembly for the lego man.  The hardest part for the lego man is the hat and the hips.  Hopefully, I will be able to complete more part assemblies and apply those to my senior project.

The most difficult mate: the hat to the head

Mating the arm to the torso with only one degree of motion

Senior Project Design Pt.2

This week I was able to complete Unit 5 of the Solidworks certification.  I learned how to assemble parts together and I was able to apply that to the parts I had made for the solar still.  They were easily mated and fit perfectly into each other.  I also added an exploded view so that the inside of the still is visible as well as to show how the pieces fit together.

Next week I plan on completing Unit 6, and then trying out the example projects to sharpen my skills.  Afterword, I will be ready for certification and I will move forward with my project.

Learning the exploded view tool

Assembling solar still parts

Senior Project Design

This week I am almost done with the Solidworks certification program.  I only have unit 5 and unit 6 left to complete.  Since I am almost done I have started to sketch prototypes of the parts I need for the solar still for my senior project.  Right now it is pretty basic, but it could get the job done.  Once I am certified in Solidworks I might try out different designs for the solar still.
For now, I will continue with unit 5 while also designing the parts for my project.

Using revolved feature tool to create bottom of the still

The top of the solar still

Halfway done Solidworks

This week I have completed the tutorials for lesson 3 of basic part design and have successfully completed two of the four projects.  I hope to completely finish all the tutorials by the end of next week.  Section four is a short section so I am going to go through those videos over the weekend and do the projects on Monday.  I also want to start creating some designs for my solar still, and will bring them in Monday to start working on.

Partway completed project

Successfully created bracket