Spartan Superway Internship

Week 8: For this week, I continue working on waysides. My goal is to finish it by Tuesday ( July 23, 2017). I also find a better way to rotate the solar panels. Instead of design a mechanism to rotate solar panels 180 degree, I think it is better to have it rotated around a pivot point. A motor will be installed under the solar panel and programmed so that it can rotate at a certain angle. My goal for this design is to get as much sunlight as possible, so that the solar panel can generate 50V output.

Week7:    Solar Roof Design This week, I continued finishing the rails. I also designed the solar roof frame mechanism, so that it can get most of the light.  By using the motion generation mechanism method, I was able to have the crank moving 180 degree.  Solar roof frame mechanism will be installed on the top of the half scale rails. Connection for stepping  motor.

Week 6: Fixing Rails For this week, my team and I finished fixing the upper rail. By applying the new method that we found from week 5, we were able to connect copper strips together quicker. As a result, collector shoes are able to slide smoothly on copper strips.

Week 5:  A Better Way to Connect Copper Strips & Solution for Collector Shoes Switcher Copper strips will be cut diagonally to prevent friction. A third piece of copper is placed under the two connected copper and screwed over to keep them stable. The design for the collector shoes switcher.