Week 3: A Better Way for the Half-Scale Collector Shoes This week, I focused more on designing part to improve the half-scale collector shoes. To keep the collector shoes running smoothly inside the two rails and to constantly provide enough energy for the pod-cars, there were two things that half-scale collector shoes are needed to improve. Firstly, they had to be in a constant contact with the two copper strips, the main supplied energy. To solve this problem, I added two pieces of coppers strips for each collector shoe. The purpose of adding two copper strips to each collector shoe was to increase the contact area, so that the collector shoes always touched the copper trip while running. Secondly, the copper shoes were needed to reduce the friction while running on the two copper strips. The only way that my team could think of was to add the bending curve copper strips to the gap in between two added copper pieces. So when the collector shoes hit any obstacle
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